The Fifth Column

My daughter read this Huffington Post story, and asked me what the big deal was about IQ tests. Here's what I told her. What you are ...

In ancient times, any country conquered by Rome had to pay tribute to Rome. These vassal states had to spend their own resources to build up...

Libertarians, the political teenagers who want to have their cake and eat it too, always complain about government over-regulation and the...

The left lionizes homosexuality, trans-sexuals and the whole LGBTQwxyz thing but is happy to label heterosexual interactions (men chasing w...

Liturgy, it is said, is the life of the Church. The word itself means "work of the people." It originates in pagan Greek practice,...

Ask for a description of cryptocurrencies, and the reply will always involve the phrase "it's a distributed ledger..." They sa...

A friend asked me to weigh in on the various crypto-currencies. There are now over 1000 of them, and I can't claim to know much about mo...

Contrary to popular opinion, natural law has nothing to do with "nature red in tooth and claw". Darwin's theory, whether true...

1917 Code of Canon Law - legal age of marriage for women is 12. 1983 Code of Canon Law - legal age of marriage for women is 14. Even if...

Courtesy of Jeff Miller + Adjuvabit eam + Alma Redemptoris Mater + Angelus Ad Virginem + A Maiden Most Gentle + Benedixisti Domine + Chris...

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...