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.
Malibu is burning, and we may be inclined to see some sort of divine sign in the conflagration, not least in the loss of the ironically-named razed city of ‘Paradise’. We should pray for...
We should pause and reflect – and pray, a verb which you will not often hear on the CBC - as we commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the end of what was called at...
Pope Saint Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 until his death on this day in 461, was known for many things. With his wise mind, his magnanimous soul and zeal, he helped solidify...
A blessed feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral of Saint John Lateran to all our readers! The highest-ranking church in all Christendom, the principal church of the Pope, it is the mother of...
As the midterms make clear, the U.S. continues its continental divide, between the (ironically) red Republicans and the blue Democrats, with the former under Trump keeping hold of the Senate (and hence able to...
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Yes, it is Guy Fawkes Day, when Brits of a certain religious persuasion celebrate - or used to anyway when religion was more to the fore in people’s...
It took nearly a hundred years - in galactic terms, I admit, a twinkle of an eye – but astronomers have now officially re-named the ‘Big Bang’ Theory, the ‘Hubble-Lemaitre’ theory. Edwin Hubble was...
A blessed solemnity of All Saints' to all our readers, a feast that goes back to the earliest days of the Church, as a commemoration of all the countless martyrs who could not have...