The Fifth Column

So, why did Trump speak at the pro-life march? First, he should be given kudos for doing it, even if his motivation was ... ahem... purely p...

So, a friend of mine sent me this homily given by a Latin Mass priest this past Christmas. It is, in a word, unsound. This is the kind of t...

Apparently, Pope Emeritus Benedict and Cardinal Sarah have co-authored a book advocating for priestly celibacy. Whether it is intended to or...

   Over the last couple of decades, historians have tried to rename the old AD/BC numbering system for historical dates to an alternative CE...

Marriage between a Jew and a non-Jew .  "Whether a marriage ceremony was conducted or not, it is not considered a legal marriage, an...

Major Premise: All grace comes from God. (dogma) Minor Premise: God enters the world through Mary's womb. (dogma, Theotokos) Conclusi...

Trump ran as a pro-life Republican even though: " In many cases, I probably identify more as Democrat,”  Trump told CNN’s Wolf Blitze...

Student debt is the only debt that cannot be gotten rid of through bankruptcy. This essentially makes those with student loans indentured se...

The Two Foundational Rules of System Design:  Systems always produce precisely the results they were designed to produce. What you intend...

A recent conversation about EWTN brought up the following interesting question: how many celebrity priests has EWTN gone through? This is ...

Ed Peters, the rather nonsensical canon lawyer who likes to get clicks to his blog, has certainly gone above and beyond himself. He usually ...

Let me begin by saying the electoral college is a brilliant idea, unmatched anywhere else in the world for balancing political interests, an...

I love it when "conservatives" argue for Original Intent (tm) on gun control, but then promote Progressive arguments on immigratio...

The elites like to control people, and the doctrine of jury nullification breaks their control, so they don't like it. If you ever w...

Vegans and socialism go together like peanut butter and jelly, and have for at least a century: " The truth is that, to many people ...

I have no particular brief against vaccines. They work, they reduce and eliminate nasty diseases. They are an important tool in the medical...