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.
(Since a number of reviews of the latest Star Wars entry are making the rounds, including one rather odd one in First Things that seems to turn these outings into actual philosophically-deep musings, I...
In this last week of Advent, there are two saints, oft overlooked, celebrated in a muted way each year: Peter Canisius (1521 - 1597), a Dutch Jesuit who traversed thousands of miles across Europe...
Like the seemingly inextinguishable California wildfires, the aptly named 'Pervnado' continues its own incineration of the careers of various media and political types, all of them males, almost all of them white. Curiously, so...
We celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe today, a commemoration elevated to a feast on the eve of the Third Millennium by Pope John Paul II, who also declared her patroness of all of ‘America’,...
Today we celebrate Pope Damasus, who in his office in the Chair of Peter from 366 to 384, greatly influenced the history of the Church: It was he who presided over the Synod of...
What are we to say about Pope Francis placing into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (the official compilation of Magisterial texts) the interpretation of the Argentinian bishops of Amoris Laetitia, that divorced and remarried Catholics...
A blessed and joyous solemnity of the Immaculate Conception to all Catholic Insight readers. Pope Blessed Pius IX, Pio Nono, proclaimed the doctrine of Our Lady's perpetual sinlessness on this day in 1854, in...
Well, it has happened, as expected: After a rather perfunctory debate, Australia has caught up with history and the current mind-numbing zeitgeist and, like another domino, fallen to that whole-cloth fiction of same-sex 'marriage'. ...