The Fifth Column

The president of the Canadian Catholic Bishops Conference (CCBC) is upset. It seems the CCBC has been providing enormous financial support t...

When John Paul II wrote Love and Responsibility as archbishop of Krakow, he included a section with a fairly detailed discussion of the sex...

Alright, I don't get it. Nixon is getting razzed because he said he was fine with abortion in cases where a white woman would otherwise...

In his wild attempts to defend the indefensible Chris West, Dr. Michael Healy, a philosophy professor at Franciscan University, has now tak...

Mark Shea recently expressed frustration about the Catholic outcry over Christopher West's appearance on ABC's Nightline. In that 7...

Barack Obama at Notre Dame: " ... [on abortion] I didn't change my position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my we...

George Weigel is now insisting that Obama's speech is intended to separate Catholics from their bishops, driving a wedge between them. ...

Peggy Noonan, bless her heart, doesn't get it. She argues that the Republican party needs to become a "big tent" if it is to ...

First, Mexico said over a hundred were dead. Then the World Health Organization said 7. But even as it revised the death figures down, it ra...

As many commentators have noticed, Barack Hussein Obama is inflicting change upon the United States faster and harder than any previous pres...

There are a lot of theories floating around about why liberal talk radio always fails. People say liberals aren't interesting, liberals ...

Scientific American, a marvelous magazine in many respects, recently published an article which not only demonstrated the foolishness of one...

Father Stanley Jaki, Templeton Prize winner and one of the finest minds in the world, has passed away. I had the honor of speaking with Fath...

Wow. I'm speechless. That's not easy to do. I'm not even sure what to do with this piece (hat tip, Dawn Eden - you probably sh...

Some people didn't like the fact that I'm making fun of the Notre Dame situation. This is my response. XXXX, I understand your outra...

In a surprise move intended to placate Catholics on the far right, the University of Notre Dame has decided to award an honorary doctorate i...

Hat tips to Marie Pitt-Payne , Dawn Eden , who notified me about this. Link is on CultureWarNotes.com Recently, Joanna Krupa claimed that ...

Culture War Notes has two very odd stories today. First, there is the rumor that Barack Obama is trying to silence Archbishop Burke. Burke ...

In my book, Designed to Fail: Catholic Education in America , I discuss the rise of the corporation and the impact it had on the establishme...

I must confess something. I sometimes use this blog as a way to remember an argument that comes up infrequently, but which requires me to do...