The Fifth Column
Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Free Market = Anything Goes
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Let us all stop pretending that the government somehow stifles the free market. The government is a legitimate actor in the free market, i...
Sunday, August 13, 2017
America's Eugenicist Presidents
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Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909): I agree with you if you mean, as I suppose you do, that society has no business to permit degenerates to r...
Thoughts on Charlottesville
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The Nazis learned eugenics from American and England . The Nuremberg laws were modeled on US law. (or click here or here or here ) Ev...
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
US War Heroes Speak
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On the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings The priest who blessed the pilots expresses his remorse.
Wednesday, August 02, 2017
A St. Francis Quote
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"Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." The argument is that St. Francis never said this. Maybe he didn't ...
Saturday, July 29, 2017
Why I Am Not A Libertarian
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As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to s...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
The Devil Went Down To GOSH
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Many American Catholics are complaining that the overweening authoritarian English government, with its murderous euthanasia and anti-life a...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Aquinas on When You Can Steal
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Summa Theologiae Second Part of the Second Part Question 66 Article 7. Whether it is lawful to steal through stress of need? I answer...
Babytalk
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When was the last time it happened? Perhaps you were eating lunch with a friend at work, returning home from a movie, or discussing the way...
Little Lost Lambeth
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The year is 1932. On the Continent, Adolf Hitler is still eleven months away from gaining control of the German government. Though he conti...
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Prison Societies
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It is usually said that Western democracies are the most free societies on earth. But is that true? This video provides a rather different w...
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Friday, June 30, 2017
Should We Torture Babies?
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The case of Charlie Gard has reached the inflammatory stage. Charlie Gard is a baby who suffers from an inherited mitochondrial disease ca...
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