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John Paul Meenan, Editor

John Paul Meenan currently teaches Theology at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, with a particular interest in the relationship between faith and reason, and how the principles of our faith should impact and shape the human person and modern culture.
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Saint John Neumann, the Bishop Who Kept on Going

Today is the feast of Saint John Neumann - whom we should distinguish from Saint John Henry Newman, the English Oratorian and fellow saint; as well as from the non-ordained layman John von Neumann,...

The Epiphany to (the) Wise Men

A blessed and joyous Epiphany to all our readers, at least to those in Canada and other regions, where this solemnity is moved to the nearest Sunday. For the universal Church, it's on the...

Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton: The First American-Born Saint

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) signifies what America once was and, by the grace of God, may yet be again - the true 'MAGA', if you will, not based on money, but...

The Holy Name of Jesus

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under...

The Church Could Use A Few More Thomas (à) Beckets

A blessed continuing 'Merrie Christmas!' to all our readers, on this sixth day of the Octave, and then on through the the twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism of our...

In the Bleak Midwinter, Gaudete Christus Natus Est

It's lovely how the simplest tunes often - perhaps most often, maybe even always - make the most beautiful of melodies. So it is with Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) carol 'In the Bleak Midwinter' (1906)...

The Hope of the Holy Innocents

The feast of the Holy Innocents, which we celebrate appropriately enough within the octave of Christmas, might seem a troubling commemoration at first glance.  Remembering the wholesale slaughter of all the male children two...

Entropic AI

Entropy may be described as the movement from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos. It is the inevitable consequence of any closed system, and encapsulated as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Any such...

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