The Fifth Column

According to the FBI statistics referenced by US News and World Report , violent crime overall remained near 30-year lows last year (2016),...

When it comes to creationism, the guiding principle of subsidiarity applies. Subsidiarity is the organizing principle within Catholicism. ...

So, now  Cardinal Burke claims he never said the Pope was a heretic. That's alright, Cardinal - the people you deliberately stirred up...

If dogs can go to heaven, then dogs can go to hell as well. So, maybe all dogs go to hell. Which would actually be much more logical, sin...

The  bishops of Buenos Aires have issued a teaching  on how to deal with chapter 8 of Amoris Laetitia. Pope Francis has lauded their summar...

Voting is like homeopathy. The idea is, my vote is critically important, even though we both know that it will be swamped by the votes of t...

Recently, "traditionalist" Catholics have been complaining about Pope Francis'  Amoris Laetitia .  Specifically, they demonstr...

"It is asked whether, following the affirmations of Amoris Laetitia (300-305), it has now become possible to grant absolution in the s...

How many people remember the time Pope Benedict said it was alright for a man to use a condom ? The Pope says in the first part of the an...

If a woman can abort a child who shares half her DNA because "woman's body, woman's choice", then how far can the principl...

CNN provides evidence that they are: The Standing Rock Sioux call this reservation home, and many are not on the frontlines of this month...

With his latest statement, wherein he insists that Christians and Jews don't worship the same God, it's pretty clear that Cardinal ...

"Intellect is invisible to the man who has none." ~Arthur Schopenhauer Everyone knows the superheroes: The Hulk, the Flash, the Gr...

Why do we even have a Congress? Why do we even vote for representatives or senators? What's the point? It's not like the person w...

You know, it strikes me that both pro- and anti-Trump forces are wussy crybabies. Sure, the anti-Trumpkins are crybabies who can't see...

As soon as Donald Trump won last night, he deleted his website's pro-life link. Google cache shows what it USED to look like: Bu...