The Fifth Column

  With the release of the film "October Baby", many people are asking a new question: How common is abortion survival? Well, l...

A witness to the killing of Trayvon Martin describes a hate crime gone wrong. But apparently, it wasn't the Hispanic man who committed ...

Can you imagine a writer mocking the survivors of rape, claiming such alleged victims simply didn't exist? Can you imagine an edit...

I got into a debate about who was the best Presidential candidate. To be quite honest, I'm not sure that it matters. Oh, sure, we ca...

Horrors! It seems some Dutch Catholic priests were caught having sex with young men back in the 1950s. The priests were disciplined and t...

What would you say to a couple that insisted on aborting a perfectly normal child because they dearly wanted a disabled child? It happens....

Herein lies the classic problem of how to get a finite mind to comprehend infinity: Atheists always ask for a test or proof of God. 1...

As the Volokh Conspiracy points out: "Gloria Allred, writing on the letterhead of the Women’s Equal Rights Legal Defense and Educa...

You know, Catholics are arguing this entire HHS Mandate thing in the wrong way. We should argue thusly: Since when do employees get to f...

The great thing about giving regular lectures on a variety of subjects is the questions and comments from the audience. After a talk I gav...

There is a certain poignancy to this story. It seems Cardinal Dolan and his staff got schooled in what Catholicism actually teaches by Ba...

Color me confused, but I don't get it. What, exactly, did Limbaugh say about Georgetown student Sandra Fluke that was wrong? What...

Rush is again right. But there's a bit more to it than he has so far pointed out. Our pretty little woman, Miss Fluke, wants to be pa...

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...