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.
Amoris Laetitia, Global Greed, and Warming Up
*The Holy Father's Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia is now promulgated. I have only read the first few pages, wherein the Pope advises us...
Ant-Man vs. Daredevil
(As a bit of light-hearted reading before the issuance of the Holy Father’s Apostolic Letter later today, here are some thoughts on two superheroes,...
Mercy: Divine and Human, True and False
(The following is an address I offered yesterday at Saint Hedwig's Church for the Divine Mercy celebration. Â Editor)
This being the Year of Mercy, decreed...
Legislators, P.E.I. and Lust in the Classroom
A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday. There is an old adage about a 'month of Sundays', but the Catholic Church...
Our Unsupportable Medical Utopia
I met an acquaintance of mine recently in one of local stores (of course, government run) that sells liquid cheer, to refresh the weary...
The Beauty of Suffering: Salvifici Doloris
In, 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (curiously, now looking back, the...
Of Bombs, Budget and Bombast
*Our prayers go out for all the victims and, yes, the perpetrators of yesterday's attacks in Belgium. We are up against a determined enemy,...
Of Depravity and Bullying
*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all!
*To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork, we slouch each day...
A Deadly First
With the permission of a Superior Court Justice, Ontario had its first euthanasia case this morning, when an 81 year old man suffering from...
The Totalitarian Imposition of Euthanasia in Canada
The story of euthanasia in Canada officially began a year ago this February 6th, when the Supreme Court of Canada decreed that the laws...
