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.
Today is the commemoration of Our Lady of Fatima, a title given to the Virgin Mary after she appeared 'brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light' to three shepherd children in the summer...
Quebec is back in the news, this time with a report of its death-spiral of a birth rate. It seems Quebec women by and large do not want to have children, or at least...
This Thursday is the 17th annual March for Life, commemorating Trudeau Sr.'s to demonstrate our commitment to life in a visible, public way. People debate about the value of such demonstrations, especially as they...
By the time you read this, London (the one in England) will have elected a new mayor. The residents did not have much of a choice: A Muslim, raised in Britain, of Pakistani lineage,...
Today is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the late, great Saint Athanasius (+373), a foundational Eastern Doctor, along with Basil, Gregory Nazianzen and Ambrose. ...
Saint Catherine of Siena (1334-1380) was a feisty, indomitable woman. One might, in a Catholic way, claim her as an early 'feminist', in the true JP II sense of that term, recognizing the genius,...
There are sometimes good things in the news, like this report from the Telegraph that when conception occurs, that is, when the male sperm fertilizes the female ovum, and the 23-chromosomal DNA of both...
In 2004, Canada passed the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, which legalizes certain forms of artificial reproduction of human beings, including in vitro fertilization and artificial insemination. The rub is that, although one may donate...