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.
Nota in Brevis November 30th
Today is the feast of Saint Andrew, Apostle, brother of Saint Peter, patron of Scotland, Russia, Ukraine and Greece, for what reason are somewhat...
Nota in Brevis November 25
I am not surprised: Peter Jackson now admits that he made up the Hobbit trilogy more or less as it went along. From the...
Reasonable Force?
We will soon learn the fate of Constable James Forcillo, the Toronto police officer currently on trial for murder, who, shortly after midnight on...
Nota in Brevis, November 20th
Masked, armed Muslims stormed the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, taking 170 hostages. As I write, there is an operation underway to free them,...
Nota in Brevis, November 18th
There is a new craze, of all things, for adult colouring books. I know much has been written on the infantilization of our culture,...
Terrorism in France: The Enemy in their Midst
The massacre in Paris yesterday marks the beginning, we may presume, of other tragedies to come. Well over one hundred dead, hundreds more injured,...
Music & Beauty
The Tallis Choir is holding a choral concert, Charpentier's Midnight Mass for New France, on the evening of November 28th at the beautiful Saint...
Trudeau & Abortion
Justin Trudeau has been elected as Canada's 23rd Prime Minister, the son of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's 15th. I never thought I would...
Trudeau & Migrants
Trudeau and his Liberal majority government is following through on its plan to move 25,000 Syrian refugees (migrants?) to Canada. Questions abound, not just...
Captain Philips
I just took in the new American-everyman Tom Hank's movie, Captain Philips which, surprisingly from its limited quality, has made over $218 million so...
