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.
As many saints, scholars and sundry others have discovered, reform is a difficult business. Reforming oneself is hard enough, in others, more difficult still, and in an entity as ancient and set-in-its ways as...
This past Saturday was the solemnity of the birth of Saint John the Baptist, a feast that commemorates the beginning of the end of the Old Testament dispensation, with its adumbrative figures of things...
As is the vogue nowadays, Catholic Insight will be presenting a new 'look', an updated and improved webpage, which will be launched, providentially enough, this Thursday, June 22nd, the feast of Saints Thomas More...
Richard Dawkins, like his intellectual forebears David Hume, Feurbach, Emile Zola and countless others, claims not to be religious. In saying so, he is not being entirely honest, for whether Dr. Dawkins realizes it...
Tomorrow, besides being the much more important solemnity of Corpus Christi (at least here in Canada, more on which in a bit) is also Father's Day, and a recent discussion I heard on the...
Pursuant to my thoughts this morning on Kathleen Wynne's splashing other people's money around to further fund the public service and, as a happy accidental (?) addendum, also ensure her and her Liberals  a...
Alexis de Tocqueville is proved right once again, that the tyranny of the majority lies inherent in any democracy. Our erstwhile Premier, Kathleen Wynne, has just brazenly approved an across-the-board 7.5% pay raise for...
Viggo Mortensen, the same actor who played Strider/Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, seems to enjoy getting naked in his non-Tolkien films, evincing, perhaps, certain latent exhibitionist fantasies:Â In Eastern Promises, he...