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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Choices, Good and Bad

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 ā€˜went to his own place’. All that...

Ascending to the Father

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...

Dictatorship of Relativism

On April 18, 2005, in a homily for the Mass ā€˜pro eligendo Romano Pontifice’, for electing the (next) Roman Pontiff (at which he himself would be elected as Benedict XVI) Josef Cardinal Ratzinger, Dean...

Silence on the March and Catholic Education

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...

Scandalous and Sacred Fashion

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 March for Life and the Contemplative Life

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...

Boy Scouts, Volcanoes and Mother of God School

A blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter, as we journey with Christ and His Apostles towards Pentecost…Veni Creator Spiritus! It had to happen, I suppose: The Boy Scouts are now the No Scouts, at least, no...

To Life and Living Simply

A blessed feast of the Apostles Philip and James, the latter called ā€˜the Lesser', to distinguish him from James ā€˜the Greater’, the writer of the Epistle (which here, likely means just ā€˜older’), whose feast...

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