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.
What is one to say of the recent allegations of the former papal nuncio to the United States, Carlo Maria Vigano, claiming a network of complaisance, cover-up, deceit, aiding and abetting in homosexual behaviour...
An article this morning in CWR quotes a recent speech by none other than Cardinal Sarah, recounting to young scouting pilgrims, on pilgrimage to Vezelay in France, how they should emulate the noble virtues...
A blessed memorial of King Saint Louis IX (+1270), on whom I hope to post a few words, as this is the anniversary of my baptism, an event, as either Pope John Paul or...
Saint Rose of Lima (+1617) was a consecrated virgin, and the first native-born canonized saint of the Americas. She was renowned during her lifetime for her generosity and charity, flowing from a life of...
Back in June of this year, I wrote a piece on the travails of Trinity Western University, and how they had been refused accreditation for a law degree based on their ‘covenant policy’, to...
We should pray today to Pope Saint Pius X (1835-1914) for all the woes we are currently facing in the Church. He too was Pope during the first years of a new century, filled...
Today is the memorial of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1190 – 1153), named after the ‘clear valley’ in which he helped establish a Cistercian monastery, itself named after the Citeaux monastery, near Dijon in...
I had this romantic notion on the pilgrimage of sailing away from my native land, watching the ‘white cliffs of Dover’ recede into the distance, so planned to catch the ferry between the mediaeval...