The Fifth Column

Did you ever notice? People who are concerned about the destruction of the rain forests often invoke the possible loss of new pharmaceutical...

In the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze, a memorable exchange took place: Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): "Is there any other ...

In 374 AD, the bishop of Milan died. The town was in great turmoil as debate began about who should succeed him. The Arian heretics wanted o...

Throughout the history of the Church, the greatest of saints have regularly undertaken personal and severe mortifications in order to join t...

Or maybe Palin-Bachman. Who cares which it is? But what a race it would be in 2012! The GOP has the opportunity to put together the first fe...

Most people know Tom Monaghan as the billionaire entrepreneur who invented Domino's Pizza, started the first Catholic law school and uni...

Is it just me, or are Catholics on the East Coast just really good at playing the victim? Patrick Kennedy made some absolutely heinous publi...

On the surface, it seems a great mystery. Why would the leftist liberals who embrace abortion, homosexual rights, pornography, free love, se...

Deroy Murdock of the National Review is perplexed. He can't understand why Obamacrats would create a new tax on medical devices, a tax ...

Did you ever wonder where Christopher West got his rave about Hugh Hefner? You know, where did he get the idea that Hefner was really just t...

It is common knowledge that Protestants who hold to sola fide (faith alone) salvation have enormous problems with Scripture. Why? Because th...

With the new note on Anglican admission into the Catholic Church, a couple of thoughts come to mind. The "personal ordinariate," a...

"Recently, while preparing for a long drive, I decided to look through my old collection of tape series for something to listen to (yes...