The Fifth Column

I love studies that discuss why religious people think the way they do.  Unfortunately, not all such studies are created equal. Consider ...

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benev...

According to the map at the bottom of this page , women who oppose contraception are most strongly concentrated in East Texas and Louisiana....

The Holocaust killed 12 million people. It killed: 6 million Jews. 3 million Catholics. 3 million Orthodox. On a per capita basis , it...

In the last five years, I have visited The Catholic Thing only twice, because their commentary is consistently stupid. That having been sa...

If you think that 9/11 was actually instigated by George Bush in a false flag operation, you are called a Truther. If you think that Barac...

A federal judge has decided to allow a lawsuit against the Catholic Church. It seems a single Catholic school teacher, an instructor of c...

  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 ...