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.
Dumbing Down the Voting Age
I have an article published this morning in Crisis, on the necessity of reappropriating and reinstantiating beautiful liturgical music, which the Church describes as...
Fare Thee Well, South Africa
The errors of communism, as Our Lady predicted, continue their long, slow march throughout the world, but sometimes this march takes a sharp turn...
Insidious Socialism
Pius XI taught that Socialism, along with its theoretical end-point, Communism, are intrinsically evil, entailing various fundamental violations of fundamental human rights, not least...
Mysteries, Missiles and Modern Morality
What happened in the school shooting at Stoneman High School gets even odder: It now seems a senior officer on scene ordered all the...
Of Conservatism, Ideology and Cowardice
So Patrick Brown has dropped out, one might say ‘again’, but the first resignation was from actually holding the leadership of the Conservative Party,...
Mϋller and Polycarp
While we're on the topic of clarity, an excellent read is this recent piece by Gerhard Cardinal Mϋller in First Things. Quite a limpid,...
Jacinta’s Modest Proposal, Olympic Gold and Har Meggido
I just discovered this morning, after my reflections on Olympic modesty, that today is the memorial of Blessed Jacinta Marto, one of the Fatima...
Troublesome Technology and the Modesty of Mixed Doubles
I suppose I should wish everyone a joyous and restful Family Day, but I have a strong, almost knee-jerk, reaction to State-mandated holidays, regardless...
Retracting and Detracting
Patrick Brown has thrown his hat into the ring of the Progressive Conservative leadership race, vying to win back the very position he resigned...
The Devil Made Me Do It
How does the Devil enter a soul? Obviously through grave sin, but many commit such sins and don't seem to be overtly possessed, or...
