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.
Green Day, Ignatius and ‘Rigid’ Catholics
Welcome to the land of now-legal marijuana, for on this Wednesday, Canada, in her continuing cultural descent under Trudeau, becomes the second sovereign nation...
Four Saints in a Day
We celebrate a veritable panoply of saints today: In Canada, we have the memorial of Saint Marguerite DâYouville (+1771), who married young to a...
Avila, Mary and Veritatis Splendor
On this half-way mark in the month of October we celebrate the great mystic and doctor of the Church, Teresa of Avila (+1582) who,...
Hurricanes, Stocks and Good Pope John
The weather and the economy are both volatile, of late, with the aptly-named Hurricane Michael (âwho is like Godâ) smashing into the Florida panhandle, the...
Thanking Freedom and Three Saints
I hope that all our readers had a delightful Thanksgiving weekend, a secular holiday, one may think, but as Christians we are called to...
Pro-Life Self-Defence
Troubling news from the pro-life front, as a demonstrator, Marie-Claire Bissonnette, (an alumna of Seat of Wisdom where I teach) was physically attacked (round-house...
Angels Guardian and the Youth Synod
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant âReformationâ, seventeen years before Luther would...
Therese, NAFTA and Communist Short Lists
I enjoy the serendipity of providence when the liturgical readings match up unwittingly with the day, as we celebrate Ste. Therese of Lisieux, more...
Patching the Chinese Schism?
Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation...
Kavanaugh’s Inquisition
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than oneâs capacity to comment on them; even oneâs reflection is superseded:...
