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.
Laetare Sunday marks the halfway point of Lent. It is so named after the Introit, from Isaiah 66:10ā11 and Psalms 121:1.
LƦtare Jerusalem et conventum facite omnes qui diligitis eam; gaudete cum lƦtitia, qui in...
Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College is embarking tomorrow on our annual pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine in Midland, following the steps of Saints Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and their companions who gave their...
War is always a bad business, even in the most just of them, the criteria for which the current conflagration does not seem fit. Whatever one's view, as one of the worst of evils...
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didnāt mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries ā called the Fulminata (āthe ligthningā regiment) - who en masse professed...
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be...
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages. How they responded in their own era with its own troubles and crises offers us an example for how to...
Saints are by definition āextremeā, for they live a liminal life, on the very threshold of eternity, seeing past the veil of this world. Hence, they act as though all that mattered were the...
Today marks the memorial of the early martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203, under the reign of Septimius Severus, an emperor who seems on the whole to have...