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.
There is much talk nowadays about conscience, freedom of conscience, good and bad conscience, yet with little awareness, from what I can tell, of what conscience actually is. So, a definition: Conscience is an...
Well, another evening CBC episode, dedicated this time to the flying of the rainbow flag in various locales, the most controversial being the American embassy in Jamaica, where homosexuality is, shall we say, less...
Well, that happened faster than even I thought. Already, there are calls to outlaw any and all 'homopobia' in any speech, writing, discourse or thought. As the narrative goes, the massacre in Orlando is...
As you have likely read already, fifty people have been killed in an attack on an Orlando 'gay' nightclub, with fifty-three more injured, the largest individual mass-killing in U.S. history. The alleged assailant was...
Alas for Captain America. I know he is a fictional character, but, even so, he has had a rough time of it of late.
First, and the least of his problems, is the second-to-last film,...
Today is the feast of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, the patroness of our college here in Barry's Bay, as well as Our Lady of Combermere, the patroness of Madonna House, situated in the...
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
So declared the famed historian George Santayana in 1863, and there is a lot of truth in this aphorism, upon which we would...
(This article appeared in this revision on LifeSite News, based on a clarification they received from Dr. Vanier)
At the end of May, Jean Vanier was interviewed on the CBC by Carol Off for the...