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.
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...
As of midnight tonight, as I write on this June 6th, the murder of adults will be legal in Canada. Of course, we have had the legal killing of the unborn since May 14,...
Today is, or rather was, as I am getting to this rather late, the memorial of Saint Justin Martyr, an early apologist for the faith. Not as in 'saying sorry', but as in apo-logia,...
This evening at 7:30 p.m., on the Feast of the Visitation, fittingly enough celebrated on the last day in the month of May dedicated to Our Lady, Father Scott McCaig, the Moderator of the...
Alas, the capitulations continue. A few days ago, I listened on the CBC to an interview with the great Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche, which cares for severely handicapped and developmentally challenged people,...
I received a rather critical email in response to my last post on the Conservative capitulation, so thought I should clarify my, and hopefully your own, thoughts:
As I wrote, there may be nothing wrong...
To capitulate derives from the Latin root capis, capitis, 'head', and literally means to cease to resist an opponent by drawing up terms under 'headings' or 'chapters'. So any mutual agreement is a kind...