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.
I am more and more convinced that the scandals plaguing our Church and society, and the salvation of the world, depends far more upon individual, personal virtue than on any plan, committee, policies, safeguards,...
A blessed and joyous Epiphany week to all our readers, in these last days of the Christmas season, leading up to the Baptism of the Lord and His public ministry.
And on the public ministry of...
Is love dead, actually? A recent article bemoans the fact that we – well, Americans in particular – are falling out of love with love, and that the traditional notion of romantic ‘love’ no...
Before we leave 2018 behind, we should mark the 1600th anniversary of the official condemnation, of the heresy of Pelagius, in 418 A.D. by Pope Zosimus. Pelagius was the first writer we know of in...
A blessed continuing merrie Christmas to all our readers, as we celebrate all these twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism of our Lord. So keep those lights and candles burning,...
As we draw close to Christmas, waiting in these days of darkness, it is profitable to reflect on the purpose of the Incarnation. An anecdote I heard once has it that someone spray-painted on...
At the World Climate Conference in Katowice, Poland, which wrapped up on December 15th, 196 countries – well, representatives from said countries, including our own 'climate specialist' Catherine McKenna - have enthusiastically endorsed battling...
You may have heard of CRISPR babies, which may phonically sound rather macabre, but the acronym stands for the rather prosaic Clustered Regularly Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, a type of genetic editing first developed in...