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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
A very merry, blessed and joyous Christmas to all our readers, which we hope is filled with God's grace and good cheer. Someone sent me this morning these words from Scott Hahn, which are...
(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...