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.
Paula Adamick in her article today, in her usual vivid way, connects the cultural trajectory from the âlong, hot summerâ of 1968 to the one we are experiencing now a half-century in 2018, which...
A blessed feast of Saint Benedict to all our readers! Although the whole monastic tradition predates him by several centuries, going back to such early figures as Pachomius and Anthony, Benedict did write the most...
I have an article published on Crisis magazine, on the spiritual purpose, even the necessity, of âpilgrimageâ, which take various forms, from the explicit walking journey, through hills and vales, to the more ordinary...
Carl Sundell has a very a propos article today in Catholic Insight on the remarkable Frank Sheed (+1982), a Catholic lay apologist who emphasized the need of a properly formed intellect not just to...
Today is the feast of Saint Thomas, the Apostle, who gets a bit of a bad rap as 'doubting' Thomas, a term is that needs a bit of refining (and I see it often...
Well, another âCanada Dayâ has come and gone, celebrating the founding of this Dominion in 1867, which achieved further âliberationâ, if one wants to use that term, from Britain in 1982 with our 'Charter'...
The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate the untold number of Christians put to death under the reign of Nero, in what would ironically later be termed  64 Anno Domini,...
Perhaps you have not heard of the bad news on the religious freedom front, this time from out west, but it comes with a tinge of hope: two weeks ago, Friday, Trinity Western University, an evangelical Christian...