The Fifth Column

From homosexual activists in Chicago to Catholic politicians in Washington D.C., an enormous discussion has arisen about who should or shoul...

Don Wycliff, the ombudsman for the Chicago Tribune, is frankly puzzled. It’s easy to see why. He recently received a letter chastising the C...

Many Catholic politicians say Jesus, though privately opposed to abortion, is not the kind of God-man who imposes his views on American publ...

Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati said he does not support barring pro-abortion politicians from receiving the sacrament. "We n...

Before he wrote The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown wrote another novel, Angels and Demons . Anyone who has read the two will immediately notice t...

It seems Leon Panetta is one of the four people resigning from the bishop's lay review board. The man who supported and campaigned for p...

This is Archbishop Curtiss' official response to the Kerry problem. My comments are in parantheses. Omaha, Nebraska May 7, 2004 ...

“When the framers of the American Constitution wrote, ‘We, the people,’ they did not mean me.” Condaleeza Rice’s comments are well-taken. No...

Years ago, a heard an apologist give a piece of very sage advice. If you want to bring a certain class of people to knowledge of Christ, mak...

George Weigel appears to be at odds with the USCCB. In a recent interview with Newsmax.com, Weigel said, “[T]he bishops [must] as a group t...

Despite our best attempts at natural child birth, my wife has had three C-sections – one for each of our children. As she was wheeled into t...

Our Bodies, Ourselves At the Last Supper, which we commemorate on Holy Thursday, Jesus Christ held His own resurrected body in His hands....

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 ...