The Fifth Column

Orthodox Catholic commentary on current events.

Thursday, August 31, 2017

Free Market = Anything Goes

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
On the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings The priest who blessed the pilots expresses his remorse.
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

A St. Francis Quote

›
"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

›
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

›
Many American Catholics are complaining that the overweening authoritarian English government, with its murderous euthanasia and anti-life a...
3 comments:
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Aquinas on When You Can Steal

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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...
1 comment:
Friday, June 30, 2017

Should We Torture Babies?

›
The case of Charlie Gard has reached the inflammatory stage. Charlie Gard is a baby who suffers from an inherited mitochondrial disease ca...
7 comments:
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.