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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.
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The Pope’s Carbon and Luther’s Katherine

Pope Francis the other day expressed his full support for ‘carbon taxes’ – carbon ‘pricing’, if you will – a punitive measure to reduce the use of carbon-based fuels, combustion of which produces carbon...

That Slippery Morphing Conscience

Conscience can be a slippery thing, if we allow it so, eventually fluctuating under the waves of circumstances around us, by which we may be buffeted, tossed and turned. So sayeth Saint Jude of...

Barnabas, Encouragement and Keeping On the Path

It is fitting that we celebrate the Apostle Barnabas, the ‘son of consolation’, or the ‘son of encouragement’, in this season of the Holy Spirit. For the Hebraic terminus of his name, the navi...

Taigi, Technology and Temperance

We should be cautious of private revelations, and hence, in all the remarkable charisms given to Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (+ June 9th, 1837), it is the sanctity of her life that should stand...

Mater Ecclesiae in Ordinary Time

We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy Mass and the Litany of Loreto by Paul VI during...

An Irish Monk in Scotland

If it 'twere not Pentecost Sunday - the second highest liturgical celebration in the Church's calendar (see Pater Ignotus' reflection), and a blessed one indeed to all our readers - we would ordinarily celebrate...

Controlling Truth

On the canary in the coalmine files, one headline declared that web traffic for the Daily Mail decreased by 50% after Google ‘tweaked’ its algorithm, an ominous sign of the totalitarian control over the...

75 Since D-Day

This is the milestone of 75 years since so-called D-Day landings at Normandy, when 150,000 soldiers – many of them young and untested - of various nations on the Allied side stormed the beaches...

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