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.
As 2019 comes to an end, âtis fitting to look back on the year â even the decade - that was, and prepare for what will be. Paula Adamick has her own take on...
The religion of âpeaceâ continues its Christmas gift of bloodshed and mayhem â but then, as Saint Thomas says, without the violence of tyrants, where would we martyrs be? As Saint Paul wrote of...
Saint Adelaide, whose memorial was yesterday in that broad calendar of the blessed, was the first, and as far as I know only, Empress of the Holy Catholic Empire. As a young girl, in...
What are we to say of the German bishopâs conference â now well traversed on its own path of âsynodalityâ â which just proclaimed homosexuality, by which we may presume they mean the sin...
Today marks the anniversary of the last two executions in Canada. On this cold December day in 1962, Arthur Lucas and Ronald Turpin - the former convicted of killing a police informant, the latter...
Besides being the joyful feast of Saint Nicholas, the sixth of December is also the sombre anniversary of the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in 1989, which has been commemorated with vigils ever since. Peruse Steyn's...
Saint Bibiana, who is commemorated today, a virgin martyred during the reign of Julian the Apostate, is the patroness of single laywomen, amongst her other heavenly duties (she is also invoked, for reasons I...
To paraphrase Richard Weaverâs dictum about ideas, sin too has consequences, some of them abrupt and awful, such as murder and suicide; while the deleterious effects of other sins, the more hidden variety usually,...