The Fifth Column

Historically, Confirmation is very tightly tied to baptism. Indeed, of the 21 rites of the Catholic Church, 20 of them give baptism, confir...

"So there are three places where the pope cannot go: Moscow, Beijing, and the university of Rome", comment from one of the young p...

Bishop Matthew Clark is closing thirteen schools in Rochester, New York, with several more to follow, and it couldn't happen to a nicer...

Well, there's the difference between Golfweek and the Dallas Morning News. Golfweek fires editors who make references to black men bein...

What do these headlines have in common? Obama Pledges Support for Animal Rights Tyranny grows in the Golden State Microso...

Ok, I don't get it. There is an AP photo with this byline at this link on Yahoo! News: This image released by the US Navy Tuesday, Jan....

I don't normally re-post items, but this one rather angers me. I've been arrested and carted to jail for simply sitting in front of ...

Celine Dion wrapped up her last act in Las Vegas. While the show was still in development in 2000, Dion, 39, became pregnant and told husba...

Native Americans ate dogs. Lewis and Clark ate dogs. Asians still eat dogs. For instance, the South Korean dog meat industry alone reportedl...

Over four years ago, I joined quite a lot of others in opposing the sale of RU-486 and the morning-after pill . We predicted that nefarious...

I like Peggy Noonan. I really do. She's a great writer with a habit of calm, penetrating analysis that almost always brings you to think...

And fail they do. Catholic schools in Los Angeles are dropping like flies. Things aren't going any better for Catholic schools across t...

Have you ever wondered what the movies "War of the Roses" would look like if it were updated to the 21st Century? You don't h...

Many people are up in arms about the recent Associated Press story on vaccines and religion , which highlights the fact that the number of p...

And people ask why I wrote this book:

I was recently asked a question which a lot of people pose: Steve, You've just described at best, a mechanical universe, and at worst, a...

I have just lost all respect for the Nobel Peace Prize. If Al Gore can win it for lying about global warming, then I should be able to win ...

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...