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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Notre Dame de Pontmain, Mother of Hope

Besides being the universal memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot and Desert Father, one of the primary founders of monasticism – especially of the eremitical variety, the way of hermits, who live solitary lives of...

Snakes in Paradise

Did a snake really wash - orĀ swim - ashore in Ireland – a land that, according to pious tradition, has been without the slithering serpents since the time of Saint Patrick in the fifth...

Will Real Evil Please Stand Up?

I am still wondering about the case of Father John McCloskey, the popular – or once popular - Opus Dei priest, responsible for numerous famous conversions, including former abortionist Bernard Nathanson – now charged...

Modesty and Monetary Miasma

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,...

Migrants, Warming and Stocking for the Antichrist

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. AndĀ on the public ministry of...

Dance me to the end of love

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 ā€˜love’ no...

Promethean Pelagius

Before we leave 2018 behind, we should markĀ 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...

Christmas, Canada, Becket and the Truth

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,...

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