The Fifth Column

If you are really a capitalist and you really, really believe in a free market, then you necessarily believe in the free movement of peopl...

Your endorsement of "a person is a person through other persons" is a brilliant one-sentence summary of Christian Trinitarian the...

As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization estimated that 15 million people contracted smallpox and that two million died in that y...

Is the Pope embracing socialism when he calls for a universal basic income? Actually, it is quite the reverse: socialism has always been an ...

Just a century ago, plague was common. Smallpox, malaria, measles, whooping cough, polio, plagues raged, they ravaged, they subsided. Plague...

So, First Things (and a lot of the Catholics who read it) seem to be on a tear about how evil the bishops are for not allowing public partic...

During the cholera epidemic in Turin in 1854 in which thousands died, Don Bosco formed his boys into teams to carry the sick to hospital ...

Many Catholics have been unhappy with various bishops. The bishops have suspended public Masses, restricted access to the Eucharist, made i...

"With the Church bowing to government to shut down in the face of over-blown fear of a Chinese Communist created virus, could this be ...

A lot of people are complaining about the bishops who are cancelling public Masses, dispensing from Mass, closing down all large congregatio...

You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Many pe...

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...