The Fifth Column

Fact 1:  The death of George Floyd was not divisive. Everyone agrees it was murder. Fact 2: Everyone wants the same thing for that cop: tr...

From a friend of mine on Facebook:  I asked a simple question in this new theological discussion forum I'm in. Answers so far are enli...

What's the difference between sending foreign aid to a foreign country vs sending checks to foreigners who are living in this country? ...

In 1894, for example, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the German economist Walther Borgius. In it, Engels noted, “We regard economic co...

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...