Thursday, January 15, 2026

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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Why Are Catholics Not Holier Than They Are? Father Paul Quay Responds

On his visit to our college a few years ago, the Jesuit scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the 'most influential he has ever read', his fellow Jesuit's Father Paul...

The Significance of Trudeau’s Silly Sweater

The current brouhaha over yet another antic by our perpetually jejune Prime Minister concerns a photo of him and his brother, Alexandre, (of whom I know rather little) smiling for the camera in some...

Nepomucene’s Silence and Horton’s Minimum

Saint John Nepomucene (+1393) is by tradition, or some say by legend (but the two overlap, do they not, for every legend has its roots in a tradition) is the first and most famous...

Death, Automatically

A panel of health-care providers, as the term now has it, on the radio other day was discussing euthanasia, or, again as the language goes, medical assistance in dying.  It seems even the least...

The Power of the Holy Name

The memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus dates back to the early modern period, just after the Middle Ages, a devotion popularized, along with that of the Sacred Heart, in the 14th century...

Theotokos: The Bearer of God

A joyful New year, and very blessed solemnity of Mary, Mother of God to all our readers.  In the usus antiquior, this used to be called the feast of the Circumcision, still mentioned in...

Modifying the Our Father: Tempting Indeed

As we approach the end of this calendar year, we should give thanks to God for all the blessings He has sent, for the multitude of gifts and graces, often hidden beneath what seems...

We’re All One in Adam, Eve and Christ

I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don't suppress it at all) when I hear of science 'discovering' something that the Church has known all along.  Such...

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