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 neglected yesterday to mention yesterday two May 16 saints, and my conscience moves me to offer them to our readers, so that we may bring them to mind seek their intercession: The first...
Tom Wolfe died a couple of days ago, on May 14th, one of the originators of what came to be called the ānew journalismā in the heady sixties, a flowing, stream-of-consciousness form of writing,...
Today is the feast of Saint Matthias, the one chosen, as recounted in the first chapter of Acts, to replace Judas Iscariot, who betrayed the Christ, and āwent to his own placeā. All that...
A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers, when Christ ascended body and soul back to the Father, whence He was sent, to that Trinitarian life that is His by nature. Ā The...
On April 18, 2005, in a homily for the Mass āpro eligendo Romano Pontificeā, for electing the (next) Roman Pontiff (at which he himself would be elected as Benedict XVI) Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, Dean...
The twentieth-or-so- March for Life was overall a success, at the very least in the prayerful witness offered in the cause of the dignity of life. The route was re-routed by the phalanx of...
I must admit that I have trouble keeping up with theĀ via mundi, the ways of the world, and have this abiding, if inchoate and impractical, desire to flee to somewhere likeĀ la Grande Chartreuse, nestled...
The annual March for Life is coming up in two days, this Thursday, May 10th, with Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral at 10:00 a.m., and Saint Patrick Basilica, same time, followed by the Rally...