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.
Feel free to peruse an article I just finished on Shuasku Endo's controversial novel Silence, published in 1966, and now soon to be released as a major Hollywood production.Β The book follows a Jesuit...
A very joyous, merry and grace-filled Christmas to all the faithful readers of Catholic Insight!
Awake, awake, fling off the night!
For God has sent His glorious light!
And we who live in Christ's new day,
Must deeds...
As a number of pundits have predicted, there was a terrorist attack in Berlin, at a Christmas festival, with a multi-ton 'lorry' smashing full speed into a stall selling mulled wine. Eleven people were...
More mayhem, alas, from the Muslim world, which is now in the heart of Europe. Β A truck driven into a Christmas market in Germany, killing 12 and injuring 48; the Russian ambassador to Turkey...
From the extinction of marriage files:Β Italy is considering officially removing the 'fidelity' aspect Β in the promises of legal marriage; no longer will one have to be faithful to one's wife or husband (or,...
Patrick Brown continues his castration of the Conservative Party of Ontario, this time rebuking a fellow MPP for making some off-hand comments about the Conservatives being, well, conservative. It seems Chatham-Kent-Essex MPP Rick Nichols...
Next spring, Trudeau, the only sitting Member of Parliament ever to admit to smoking a joint (and hence breaking the law), along with his majority Liberal government, plan to legalize recreational marijuana in Canada...
Father Alphonse de Valk, Founding Editor of Catholic Insight, celebrated the 51st anniversary of his ordination quite fittingly on December 11th, the eve of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
For a retrospective of...