The Fifth Column

"[Since 9/11] I am often asked if I still think we should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity...

Killing your customer is generally not good for business. It is amazing how many people don’t understand this. Take, for instance, the Frenc...

Selective memories produce odd takes on reality. Consider people like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Barack Obama, for instance. When we hear...

Many Christians have taken offense at Hollywood’s newest movie, Kinsey: Let’s Talk About Sex . It is, they say, yet another sign of West Coa...

Political pundits, take note. The USCCB is meeting in just a few days and the participants will have several new items on their agenda. Two ...

Contrary to predictions I made earlier this year, all eleven states considering a constitutional amendment on gay marriage passed their ban...

In the Catholic Byzantine rite, immediately before the priest consecrates the offering, the deacon proclaims, "The doors, the doors! Le...

In years gone by, anarchists held strong sway in the political tradition. They held that no law was just, no law should be imposed. There ar...

It all seems oddly familiar: a statement from the Vatican, a source who insists that the words of the statement should be published far and ...

I was recently asked this question: So as I understand it Kerry has already excommunicated HIMSELF by his vocal, public and longstanding ...

"Consequently, if a Catholic publicly and obstinately supports the civil right to abortion, knowing that the Church teaches officially ...

Jared Olar just returned this to my attention, so it's time to analyze it. An article in the September 28th edition of The Australian ...

Research is moving forward to create cloned children out of left-over body parts from aborted babies and 'spare' IVF embryos accord...

In A Deafening Silence I discussed the unusually low amount of support rank-and-file Christians seem to have for outlawing homosexual marri...

I have on this blog excoriated the bishops in general and the USCCB in particular for their lack of backbone when it comes to various doctri...

In 1967 and 1968, Japan, Europe and America were aflame with violence. From the London School of Economics, to the Sorbonne, from Japan to R...