The Fifth Column

You know, I couldn't make this stuff up. I really couldn't. It's like the start of a joke: So, two ethicists walk into a ba...

One of these things is just like the other: If you like female genital mutilation, raise your hands. Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? For s...

Santorum is dead on accurate about this. There are literally thousands of prenatal and congenital diseases that are tested for. Only a...

Alright, this is just absurd. On the one hand, the USCCB is attacking Obama for forcing them (the bishops) to pay for contraception. On the...

Barack Obama has apparently opened a full scale war against the Catholic Church. He fomented quite a bit of division in May 2009 with the co...

Pro-choicers waxed delirious over a recent study released by Obstetrics and Gynecology , and timed to interrupt the annual pro-life commemor...

Pittsburgh's bishop Zubek has famously declared that Barack Hussein Obama is telling Catholics "to hell with you!" In possi...

ZDNet has an interesting article on the problems with trying to preserve copyright provoked, no doubt, by the recent SOPA/PIPA controversy...

The Nuremberg Laws The following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming...

So, now that a most excellent time-line has been produced on the RCTV and Micheal Voris situation, the question naturally arises: Is can...

When Bishop Ochoa was named Bishop of Fresno on Dec 1, 2011, the clock started ticking. He had 60 days to canonically take possession of hi...

Now, I'm not a fan of desecrating corpses. But consider two cases: 1)  US Troops urinate on the bodies of their enemies. Once. 2...

Three cases: 1) About a decade ago, Bishop Bruskewitz excommunicated a whole bunch of people. Specifically he legislated that anyone who...

"Is there sexual intercourse in Heaven? ... Intercourse on earth is a shadow or symbol of intercourse in Heaven. Could we speculate ab...

Well, now that the 2012 Presidential election is over, we can look back with longing on what might have been. Of course, no one wanted Oba...

Just three months after Bishop Ochoa, formerly of El Paso, publicly rebuked one of his own priests for daring to promulgate the Church's...