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 blessed and grace-filled feast of the Transfiguration to all our readers, when Christ allowed the Apostles - Peter, James and John - to 'see His glory', His true nature as the Second Person...
As well as being the feast of the Transfiguration, and the anniversary of the death of Pope Paul VI, this day also has the sombre 80th anniversary of the first of two uses -...
On August 5th, we celebrate the dedication of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the highest church in the hierarchy of churches dedicated to Our Lady in all of Christendom. The glorious edifice sits...
On this day, August 4th, in 1859 - the same year that Darwin published his specious Origin of Species, and one year after Marx's Communist Manifesto, both of which, sadly, shook the faith of...
The Church commemorates two pastors today, separated by a millennium and a half: The fourth-century Eusebius of Vercelli (+371), the first bishop we know of in northern Italy, who has gone down in history...
Saint Alphonsus Ligouri (1696 - 1787) was a renaissance man, whose kind was a rarity in his post-renaissance era, and even more so now in our age of specialization, often in esoteric subjects that...
The contrast between the disintegrating situation in Britain and Pope Leo IV’s sunny words on migration is a prompt for this brief reflection. We take to heart the Holy Father's exhortation to welcome and...