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.
A very joyous and blessed Easter to all of your readers. For the next fifty days, we rejoice in the Lord's resurrection from the dead, giving victory over that seemingly futile end of Man,...
A note to wish all our readers a very blessed and joyous Triduum, the holy 'Three Days', which really are, liturgically, one continuous Day, beginning this evening with the Mass of the Lord's Supper,...
As many expected, myself included, the Canadian Parliament voted Bill 84 into law the other day, without the hoped-and-fought for conscience protections. As I heard from one physician at the forefront of this battle,...
ISIS attacked again yesterday, their favorite target, apparently, Christians, this time worshiping Coptics participating in Palm Sunday Mass. Forty seven were killed in the two suicide bombings in Egypt, with dozens more injured, the...
Sometime this Holy Week, the federal parliament will vote on Bill 84, an amendment to the 'Medical Assistance in Dying' Act which legislated physician-assisted 'suicide' last June. Of course, when you allow doctors to...
There is not much profit, in more ways than one, in commenting on international affairs, but that does not stop so many, myself included, from trying. (To comment, that is, not so much to...
Another truck attack, this time in Sweden, where a 'lone wolf', as they are so euphemistically termed, plowed into an 'upscale' department store in Stockholm, killing four and injuring a number of others. The...
In, 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II penned an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of human suffering, Salvifici Doloris (curiously, now looking back, the same year he made his first apostolic journey to Canada). ...