The Fifth Column

Many people, including myself, have called Humanae Vitae a prophetic document. But, as I think about events, I suspect we are all wrong. It ...

" Within the next week, two doctors cleared Geoghan for parish duty, according to an archdiocesan chronology that is in court files. ...

"Usury", in its simplest meaning, means "to charge for the use of a thing."  But Aquinas points out that the ACTUAL defi...

The state legitimately defends its citizens against foreign invaders. The biggest killers in time of war, e.g., invading armies, is not th...

Al Gore, Barack Obama and Elon Musk support killing black children for personal gain. Follow the bouncing ball: "Green energy...

Technology gives EVERYONE a better life,  but EVERYONE has fewer jobs available,  and HALF the population has dramatically fewer jobs avail...

Pope Francis recently announced that capital punishment “is in itself contrary to the Gospel.” Traditional Catholics, whose failure to un...

"One of the best-known segregation distorters is the so-called t gene in mice. When a mouse has two t genes it either dies young or is...

"It was never a program for improved medical coverage. It was a program for redistributing wealth by force from the healthy to the sic...

Elite colleges train their students to be corporate and government executives. Corporations write the laws and pay the legislators to pass a...

Blessed John Cardinal Newman outlined his belief  in an active laity as follows: “I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not di...

What is the etymology of the word marriage? Marriage, and the related word "matrimony" derives from the Old French word matremoi...

As regular readers of this blog know, I have no issue with private citizens owning weapons. Both the Second Amendment and the body of the Co...

Many people say a Universal Basic Income would destroy the fabric of the nation, turn people away from jobs that increase their self-esteem...

Differences in admonitions  directed towards  Pope John XXII (1333)  vs Pope Francis (2017) Pope John XXII (1333) ...

CLAIM: Here's how you discover the true beliefs of minimum wage supporters. 1. They claim that a forced $15 wage does no har...

Dallas ISD has decided to study up on whether the names of several schools in the district should have their names changed, in order to avoi...