The Fifth Column

Anyone who has ever walked down the long corridors of the Louvre or wandered through the intimate settings of the Musee d'Orsay has seen...

Dear Colleagues, Please use your resources to strongly encourage Americans to see “The Nativity Story” movie, which opens in theatres Decemb...

Christians can’t decide whether to love or hate Walmart this season. On the bright side, Walmart has decided to emphasize Christmas. “Happy ...

A century ago, it was not at all uncommon to have an entire extended family - one or two sets of grandparents, parents, at least a half-doze...

America’s Dorian Gray Ever since 9/11, we have spent a lot of our time worrying about Islam and its suicide bombers, and rightly so. We find...

After Greg Borse of Chronwatch.com pointed me towards a fascinating interview with the Islamic expert, Bernard Lewis, I spent some time thin...

Christians believe God created the world through love, secular humanists believe random forces established life through violence. Christia...

The recent Muslim upset over Pope Benedict’s remarks is entirely justified. Not because Benedict mis-represented Islam, but because he is ch...

I recently received a critique of Designed to Fail: Catholic Education in America, from a Cistercian who teaches at a Catholic high school ...

How many people know that Prozac is an abortifacient? Yes, it seems oysters spontaneously abort when exposed to Prozac in streams and lake...

Bill Clinton is upset. Madeline Albright is upset. The Democrat party is upset. How odd. Sure, ABC has put together a 9/11 movie that...

Imagine living in an area your whole life, and your father before you, and his father before him, when you suddenly began to notice new peop...

"In lab rats, "Who's your daddy?" can now yield a surprising answer. Scientists have generated rats from mice that develo...

http://www.catholicprwire.com/headline.php?ID=2103 (the above link has been "memory-holed" - try this link instead: http://...

Back in the 1970’s and early 80’s, one of the popular rallying cries of the pro-abortion movement was exactly the comparison made in the ess...

The convergence of terrorism and technology may lead to the collapse of air travel, and that will have interesting repurcussions for the glo...

Since I moved to Dallas, I have had the occasion to listen to a much greater variety of radio on my morning drive to work. Among the host of...

Everyone seems to think World War III has started. Newt Gingrich, President Bush, Sean Hannity – the opinions are coming fast and furious. U...

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...