The Fifth Column

It is an old tradition (with a small "t") that burying a statue of St. Joseph in the yard of a house that is for sale will make it...

Over the course of the last six months, I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the Catholic publishing world. The long and short of t...

The New York Times is all in a huff about Ann Coulter’s newest book, “Godless.” Seems they don’t like how Ann points out the shameless cele...

In a rare interview, Der Spiegel talks with Dan Brown about his upcoming trip to Germany and his views on the Holocaust: SPIEGEL: Mr. Brow...

Want to know why the government refuses to stop illegal immigration? Read the US Census Bureau numbers. Non-Hispanic whites make up 67 perc...

This just in from the AP wire desk: (Los Angeles) - Cities across the nation are in upheavel as Catholics, Christians and Jews riot over the...

In the early twentieth century, social justice types decided that liquor was evil and must be banned. Laws were duly passed outlawing demon ...

As with the recent frothing at the mouth over Christmas, the Christian concern about the Da Vinci Code is rich in irony. As I recently noted...

Killing Them Softly “My sister, Andrea Clark, is soon going to be REMOVED FROM LIFE SUPPORT At St. Luke’s Hospital in Houston, despite the f...

The USSR, requiem in pace, required internal passports. If you wished to travel from one city to another, one state to another, one region t...

Some of you may be aware of my continuing disagreement with Carl Olson and Ignatius Press. I believe I can sum up the entire argument in jus...

“Everyone misses it,” Teabing said. “Our preconceived notions… are so powerful that our mind blocks out the incongruity and overrides our ey...

I don't normally publish anything from the SSPX, as their bishops are excommunicate and they are deeply unreliable in their theology. Ho...

Looks like we'll need to update the words of the Emma Lazarus poem, "Give Us Your Poor." A federal judge has ruled that an ill...

Let me tell you a story. My hometown is Belleville, Illinois. The western edge of the town is just about ten miles from East St. Louis, Illi...

"Gnosticism: The Religion of the Code" That's Chapter 1 of Carl Olson and Sandra Miesel's book, The Da Vinci Hoax . Whil...

In The Da Vinci Code , Dan Brown has one of his main characters argue that Jesus must have been married. Why? Well, Jesus was an orthodox Je...

Many Catholic commentators are all a-twitter about the Easter special on the Gospel of Judas. The Gospel of Judas, for those not in the know...