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.
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. Â 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. Â 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...
Heroism, Then and Now
âSome men are born great, some achieve greatness, while others have greatness thrust upon themâ.  So wrote Shakespeare in Twelfth Night .
âGreatnessâ may take...
Marie of the Incarnation: A Canadian Mystic
Marie de lâIncarnation: Ătudes de thĂ©ologie spirituelle by Pierre Gervais, S.J.:  A Review
Pierre Gervais is a Canadian-born Jesuit, professor of systematic, sacramental, and spiritual...
