The Fifth Column

Follow this link , and see what the USCCB says about itself. Then read below and discover a few of the details the USCCB omitted from i...

Well, everyone is asking the same question: is there a method to Barack's madness? Why does he ignore one Middle East revolution while i...

Much as I hate to link to the National Catholic Distorter , there's no way around it this time. John Allen reports that a private theolo...

Over the last few months, several people have written to me expressing concern about the way the Catechism of the Catholic Church discusses ...

So, I'm at Mass yesterday and the FSSP priest's homily is about Catholic participation in seder meals. He's agin' it. And I ...

It is being breathlessly reported in the press that UK "doctors" have said abortion is safer than pregnancy. This just goes to sh...

Alright, it's time to call some people out. All of you who have been slamming Lila Rose and Live Action for lying... we have another ser...

Peter Kreeft is wroth with Lila Rose's detractors, arguing that anyone who takes Live Action to task is simply daft, engaged in moral l...

And Egypt, while it may one day be a democracy, is never going to be a US-style democracy. Let us cast our minds back to the beginning of de...

"A Rose by any other Name would smell as Sweet." So spoke Shakespeare's Juliet to Romeo, but do we all agree? Jill Stanek high...

Today is February 11, World Day of the Sick. A plenary indulgence is available today, but almost no one in the United States will be able to...

1968 was a magic year for the Western world. The Baby Boom - a massive post-war increase in the number of young people - was drawing to a c...

Barack Obama told Doug Kmiec that abortion could not be outlawed in the United States because it would favor one religious tradition over a...

As I was conversing with some atheists the other day, I managed to make one of them realize that the Church had actually made some useful co...

WBAY in Green Bay, Wisconsin reports that the Green Bay Diocese is being accused of having destroyed files associated with pedophile priest...

Here is the text of the response made by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concerning how to interpret the Pope's private ...