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, the second day of May, is the memorial of one of the most heroic bishops in the history of the Church, the great Saint Athanasius (+373), who stood contra mundum, against the world....
In the waning years of the 19th century, before the war to end all wars at the dawn of the twentieth, followed by the imposition of 'real socialism' by Lenin and Stalin, the first...
Saint Joseph Cottolengo (1786 - 1842) signifies a life of total service to others. He was born the eldest of twelve children, into a comfortably well-off middle class family. He discerned a class to...
Saint Marie of the Incarnation (1599 – 1672) was a mystic and missionary to Canada, contemporaneous with the first settlers of this wild and savage land, along with the Franciscans and Jesuits who brought...
Michel Ghislieri was born as Anton in 1504, but took the name of the Archangel 'who is like God' when he joined the Dominican Order at the age of 14, and never looked back....
Canada has likely reached the point of no return, like a 12-0 hockey game in the final minutes of the third period, with the goalie pulled. I don’t play the game – soccer is...
Ecclesia semper reformanda est.Â
So goes the old saying - the Church, always in need of reform - applies now, perhaps, more than ever. And one of her greatest reformers was not a Pope, nor...
It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote a masterful critique, warning his fellow Canadians about what the...