The Fifth Column

What do gay marriage, abortion and reality TV shows have in common? In famously Protestant America, each of these culturally reflect and ens...

Want to hear something strange? Not once, never in the history of mankind, has a fertilized egg ever implanted in a woman’s womb. Surprised?...

Want to hear something strange? Not once, never in the history of mankind, has a fertilized egg ever implanted in a woman’s womb. Surprised?...

“What kind of God would want that kind of pain inflicted on someone?” This is one of the central questions posed in Dan Brown’s bestselling ...

We have all heard the charges. Mel Gibson’s movie is anti-Semitic, as are the Gospels he drew from. Never mind that Gibson specifically show...

As many of you have noted, parish schools are virtually the only thing in many parishes that will bring adults out of their homes. For this ...

For the last three weeks, we’ve looked at the problem of Catholic education. What must we, as parents, do in order to keep the Faith alive i...

March 1, 2003 Assignment Desk CBS 2 News 6121 Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 To the Editors: Andy Rooney’s recent comments c...

Secular commentators are now decrying the brutality of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in a fruitless, last-ditch effort to keep...

Many people have written me personally and provided comments in this space concerning my articles on Catholic education. Here is an outline ...

Many readers seem to think that the Catholic parochial school solves a problem. The argument is that if we get the kids today, they will be ...

America got a wonderful present this Christmas past. On Christmas Eve, 2003, Catholic news services reported the findings of a special commi...

Did you hear the news from Georgetown University? You remember Georgetown. It’s the “Catholic” university whose Jesuit-led administration ad...

“Our parish can get along without the school. But that school cannot get along without the parish.” That shocked the parish council. One gen...