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.
Catholic Glasgow
On an intersection in Scotlandâs largest city, at Glasgow Cross, the Jesuit priest Saint John Ogilvie, after brutal tortures by the âKingâs Menâ in...
Singing, Sex-Ed and Louis and Zelie Martin
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the âlong, hot summerâ of 1968 to the...
Of Benedict and the Conservative Option
A blessed feast of Saint Benedict to all our readers! Although the whole monastic tradition predates him by several centuries, going back to such early...
Of Pilgrimage
I have an article published on Crisis magazine, on the spiritual purpose, even the necessity, of âpilgrimageâ, which take various forms, from the explicit...
On Martyrdom and True Religious Freedom
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized...
Doubting Thomas and the Nature of Faith
Today is the feast of Saint Thomas, the Apostle, who gets a bit of a bad rap as 'doubting' Thomas, a term is that...
Oh, Canada, Philosophy, Law and Global Warming
Well, another âCanada Dayâ has come and gone, celebrating the founding of this Dominion in 1867, which achieved further âliberationâ, if one wants to...
Nero, John Paul II and the Protomartyrs
The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate the untold number of Christians put to death under the reign of Nero,...
Trinity Western and the Fight for Religious Freedom
Perhaps you have not heard of the bad news on the religious freedom front, this time from out west, but it comes with a tinge of hope:...
Saints Peter and Paul and Obeying God
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul to all our readers! As they were in life, comites, literally âfellow travellersâ, so...
