The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Friday, September 30, 2005

Bennett, Eugenics and Eucharist

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Bill Bennett has committed the horrendous crime of agreeing with professors from Stanford university and the University of Chicago. After a...
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Monday, September 26, 2005

News Catches Up with Commentary

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As I've noted over the last few weeks, the MSM histrionics over the Superdome and Convention Center situations seemed unwarranted by the...
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Thursday, September 22, 2005

House of Martyrs

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When Halloween rolls around, everyone puts up a “House of Terror” with scenes from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the Friday the 13th m...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

Was Karl Marx Right?

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A recent series of e-mails from a self-described “pro-life feminist” demonstrated how badly even well-intentioned people understand the basi...
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Friday, September 16, 2005

Katrina Incentive

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I want to thank those who have donated cases of books to the Katrina effort so far. As a way of saying showing our appreciation for your gen...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Katrina Aid

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We have just been informed that St. Vincent de Paul society in Houston is in need of Catholic materials for the victims of the Katrina Hurri...
Saturday, September 10, 2005

Living in a Fish Bowl

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As the old saying goes, “Man’s best friend is a wall.” Everyone has commented on the violence in the Superdome, but no one has thought abo...
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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Muslim Authority

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The Quran calls Jews, Christians and Muslims “People of the Book.” It is an appropriate title, and in more ways than Muslims might like. I ...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Freebies

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A new free movie series called "Masterpiece Mysteries" is now available for download at www.bridegroompress.com The series is base...
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Monday, September 05, 2005

Superdome Death Toll

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CNN reports that 10 bodies were found in the now-empty Superdome. This is wildly at odds with what the news organizations told us. After al...
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Thursday, September 01, 2005

New Orleans' Baptism

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According to nearly everyone, New Orleans got nailed because of sin. This isn’t just the opinion of the evangelicals. It is the opinion of a...
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Catholic Relief Services

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For those who would like to contribute to the relief effort but don't trust or don't know enough about many of the relief organizati...
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Friday, August 26, 2005

Collective Guilt, Incurable Sin

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God doesn’t work the way we would like Him to. Fine examples of this can be found in the Holocaust and the atom bomb, in child abuse and the...
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Monday, August 15, 2005

Galileo Redux

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It’s eerie, really. Five centuries ago, lay university professors invoked Scripture and religion in order to attack and destroy an opponent ...
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Saturday, August 13, 2005

Second-Hand Estrogens Revisited

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Many people have asked me if I can back up my absurd charge that synthetic estrogens from oral contraceptives are disrupting the environment...
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Friday, August 05, 2005

Brilliant

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I was thinking about an essay on this subject, but why re-invent the wheel? This essay is simply brilliant http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring....
Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Opposites Attract

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“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme,” said Mark Twain, and that certainly seems true today. It has been noted in this column ...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Torturing Women

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Unusual things are happening in the feminist world. The Hungarian representative to UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Agai...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005

From the Terrorists' Perspective

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To the south, east and west, Spain is bounded by water. Even at its narrowest point, at the straits of Gibralter, ten miles of ocean separat...
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Wednesday, July 06, 2005

The Return of the American Republic - Sort Of

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With the upcoming nomination to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, we are witnessing a return to one of the founding princip...
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