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.
So, what of hell? As you may have heard, and on which I wrote a few days ago, Pope Francis has allegedly (through the perhaps hazy recollection of Eugenio Scalfari after an untranscribed interview)...
On the note of suffering, even in the midst of this Easter joy, which in this vale of tears is still mingled with sorrow, at times most poignant and tragic:
Last night, a bus carrying...
We are now on the seventh day of the Easter Octave, eight days that are one long, glorious day, so this Friday is treated as a full solemnity, a Sunday, a day to rejoice...
A blessed and joyous Easter to all our readers! Christus surrexit vere, alleluia! I will have an article soon on the resurrection, but first, and in contrast to the joy of this octave of...
A blessed and joyful Holy Saturday to all our readers, a day in which all the world is ‘at rest’, with Christ, our God, asleep in the tomb, awaiting His definitive resurrection, and triumph...
Last week, a fire broke out in a mall, located in Kemerovo, a remote city in Siberia, on a day that happened to be the beginning of family holiday time, killing 64 people. The...
Another milestone for progressive Canada: We will soon hit the trillion dollar debt mark, not quite up to the 20 trillion south of the border, but we’re proportionately catching up. Like the U.S., interest...
From the files of police who do their duty, unlike the police in the recent Florida massacre, who did less than their duty, the officer who took the place of the female hostage in...