The Fifth Column

Pope Francis   recently opined : "We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have t...

Recently, our pastor announced that the parish was inviting in Hugh Owen, defender of Creationism and main speaker for the Kolbe Center f...

"In the history of salvation, God has saved a people. There is no full identity without belonging to a people. No one is saved alone, ...

My Scriptural FourSight Catholic Scripture project has finally launched! Please take a look and contribute if you can.

California has now passed a law lifting the statute of limitations on child abuse claims. The law specifically retains the statute of limita...

The Pope wrote a letter to an atheist that seems to have stirred up the secular press , and no few number of traditionalists. The full text ...

A recent blog post describes the teaching of an FSSP priest who asserts that aborted babies do not go to heaven. The FSSP priest's erro...

Syria is one of five nations that never signed the Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty . The Geneva Convention on which it is based only bans the u...

OK, I'm officially mystified. I mean, I would be if I wasn't sure that Obama was a terrorist sympathizer at the very least. But, O...

I have been asked my opinion on the Michael Voris-Catholic Answers dust-up. Everyone seems to have an opinion about Catholic Answers, from...

"Do you know that Negroes are 10 percent of the population of St.  Louis and are responsible for 58% of its crimes? We've got to fa...

As little as two hundred years ago, most of the people in the world lived in grinding poverty, bone-crushing, mind-numbing, earth-shattering...

This essay  at First Things highlights a substantial and basic difference between Jewish and Christian theology. In the Torah, any man who k...

In First Things today , Bishop James D. Conley tries to make the case that pornography is fueling a culture of rape, based in large part on ...

It has been said, correctly, that the 20th century produced more Christian martyrs than any previous century, and probably more than several...

There's been a huge brouhaha over the Pope's recent remarks following WYD 2013. Many bloggers have already thrown their two cents in...

I get into all kinds of arguments. Some people think I'm antagonistic because I'm a jerk, and they are correct about that. But argum...

When those who were carrying the ark of the  Lord  had taken six steps, he sacrificed  a bull and a fattened calf.   Wearing a linen ephod,...