The Fifth Column

While Boethius famously defined the person as "an individual substance of a rational nature," this definition turns out to be more...

"When a mother can kill her own child, what is left of the West to save?" -Blessed Mother Teresa When Judge Tim A. Duket, Marine...

The Doha International Conference for the Family follows upon the celebration of the International Year of the Family and will be a two-day ...

Many people have puzzled over the USCCB ruling that bishops can make up their own minds about whether to administer the Eucharist to pro-abo...

Many people seem upset with the waging of war upon Iraq. Indeed, I must confess that I was long of two minds about it. Not that Saddam Husse...

"I call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Choose life, t...

For the last few days, you undoubtedly noticed my blog was being redirected to a sparclinux.org site. It took me awhile to find out what was...

I just got back from the Wichita Family Conference and have a bit of news to report. As many of you many already know, Leonardo de Filippis ...

I used to think that the the large liberal corporate media conglomerates hated political diversity. I must now eat my words. The Chicago Tri...

The May 24th issue of America contains an article by Fr. John C. Haughey, professor of theology at Loyola University in Chicago, who laments...

Twenty years ago, C. J. Cherryh wrote a series of science fiction books, the Faded Sun trilogy. In it, she introduced beings called the reg...

We pro-lifers have frequently been told that it is a sign of terrible simple-mindedness to be a single issue voter. It lacks sophistication,...

Senator Kerry recently, and inadvertently, revived an old debate. He claimed a few weeks ago to believe that "life begins at conception...

I used to write for a Catholic internet site that had a problem. Its self-perception did not match its reality. If you have ever wondered ho...

Over the next few weeks, I will be migrating all my blog articles (70+ at last count) to a new article manager on the Bridegroom Press websi...

Well, the impact of Gibson’s Passion movie is already being minimized. According to the wire services, “while a solid majority liked the fil...

Shared viewpoints "Marriage should be reserved to relationships between a man and a woman. Only these pairings can produce children...

Adolf Hitler has become a major campaigner in this election. The Republicans are running ads that visually equate their opponents with Hitle...

I predicted the death of the Defense of Marriage amendment a few weeks back. Part one has come true: Congress has killed it. Clearly th...

Talk about using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. Thirteen different books respond to the Da Vinci Code, three of them authored by Catholics. C...