The Fifth Column

Most people don't think about it, but immigration is distinct from naturalization. This fact alone changes the whole debate. Remember, t...

Nonconsensual sex is rape. The attempt to have nonconsensual sex is attempted rape also known as sexual assault. The biological, scientifi...

Pro-abort leftists often complain that pro-lifers only care about unborn children. According to them, pro-lifers don't give a damn about...

Many people are under the false impression that "free market capitalism" is the only kind of capitalism there is. This is, of cou...

Some people are upset because Pope Francis reportedly told a homosexual "God made you like this and loves you like this". For th...

Catholic-American bloggers are strange beasts. Many of them went absolutely bonkers about Alfie Evans . They were insanely set on an amazing...

So, some people are getting all worked up about the Met Gala Catholic theme . Seems a lot of Hollywood types dressed up in Catholic liturgic...

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable ...

Myth 1: The doctors all thought Alfie would die as soon as he was taken off the ventilator.  No, the doctors did not all think he would di...

Everyone is interested in making Alfie Evans the poster boy for their personal cause. The causes range the gamut from decrying the entrenche...

One in 4 children living in the U.S. in 2016 had at least one parent who was born outside the U.S., according to a study released Wednesd...

According to the World Bank: Cities are major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. Half of the  world’s population lives in cities, ...

Jews count days as beginning at sundown because that's what Genesis says, "Evening came and morning followed, the first day" ...

There has recently been much brouhaha about the Italian journalist Scalfari's mis-reporting of Pope Francis' words. Scalfari is 93,...

The Congregation for Divine Worship issued the document Paschales Solemnitatis in 1988 which states: "59. On this day [Good Friday],...

My son sent me an interesting piece from Chronicle of Higher Education about  what a modern scholar thinks the university shoul...

The Ten-Second Fast A lot of people want to test themselves during Lent by learning how to fast. That is a laudable endeavor. But not ever...