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.
(The following is an address I offered yesterday at Saint Hedwig's Church for the Divine Mercy celebration. Â Editor)
This being the Year of Mercy, decreed by Pope Francis, as well as Divine Mercy Sunday, as...
A blessed Easter Octave Friday, which liturgically is a Sunday. There is an old adage about a 'month of Sundays', but the Catholic Church really does have a week of Sundays after the Solemnity...
I met an acquaintance of mine recently in one of local stores (of course, government run) that sells liquid cheer, to refresh the weary soul after a long Lent. He was there to buy...
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). ...
*Our prayers go out for all the victims and, yes, the perpetrators of yesterday's attacks in Belgium. We are up against a determined enemy, willing to kill, and to die, for their disordered cause. ...
*A blessed solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all!
*To paraphrase the words of the great American Justice, Robert Bork, we slouch each day closer to Gomorrah. Louise Ciccone, the woman otherwise unfortunately known...
With the permission of a Superior Court Justice, Ontario had its first euthanasia case this morning, when an 81 year old man suffering from end-stage lymphoma was murdered quietly by his physician, with the...
The story of euthanasia in Canada officially began a year ago this February 6th, when the Supreme Court of Canada decreed that the laws forbidding murder-suicide for compassionate reasons were 'unconstitutional', and commanded the...