The Fifth Column

A friend of mine told me the story of his illegal immigration. It was quite an eye-opener. When he was young, his family lived in a country ...

War, as has often been noted, is hell. But what if you got to take weekends off? The Catholic Church long insisted on the necessity of exac...

I have reduced the number of essays I write each week for several reasons, most revolving around my new position as director of adult format...

Thank God CNN understands religion better than any of its ignorant adherents. We need CNN’s unparalleled interpretive skill to understand...

While researching an issue for a friend, I ran across this 2007 news item  about the mass murder that resulted from diversity training at a...

In 1955, the University of Chicago Press released a remarkable book, They Thought They Were Free , by Milton Mayer. Mayer had traveled to...

For years now, I have argued that the animus against Hispanic immigrants who cross the border without first asking permission from the Borde...

Recently, a correspondent chastised me for being so much in favor of open borders and allowing illegal immigrants to work. If we were to get...

http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000004659.cfm In the spirit of ecumenism, which the Catholic bishops in America support so vociferously, ...

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LegalCenter/story?id=3195632&page=1 Identical twins in a custody dispute. It cannot be resolved. I predicte...

Why are America ’s elites so anti-Western? Or, to put it another way, what does a tortilla maker in rural Mexico have to do with a universi...

Don Imus has been in the news lately. His remarks about a women’s college basketball team have been correctly attacked as racist, he has los...

In The White Plague , Frank Herbert imagined how society would be transformed if struck by a genetically engineered plague that preferenti...

"Wasted": that's the assessment of ex-cocaine user Barack Obama on the lives of soldiers killed in Iraq. The former Muslim now...

It's been several months since the Compendium to the Catholic Church was released, and to date, there have been no corrections to severa...

Teen sex and drug use leads to depression. That’s a fact established by several studies, most recently one out of UNC-Chapel Hill based on t...

We all get caught in contradictory logic at times, but it's jarring to see the examples when they are brought before us. Consider Amy We...

How many people have sung this song at Christmas Mass? How many people have sung the third verse, ever? Joy to the world, the Lord is come! ...

Phyllis Schlafley is a woman to admire, except when she is crazy. This thought came to mind as I read her recent column on the injustice of ...