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.
I write these few words in LAX, on this feast of Our Lady of Fatima, while awaiting to board my flight back home, after a whirlwind visit to Southern California. I last wrote of...
The revelations, prophecies and secrets of Our Lady of Fatima have loomed large in the minds and heart of Catholics in the twentieth century, and indeed many others across the world. They have taken...
Today we commemorate the early martyrs Nereus and Achilleus, soldiers, officers of the court, and converts to the Faith, likely put to death under Emperor Domitian in the late 1st century. (Other sources claim...
A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers' Day, which became widespread when President Woodrow Wilson – leaving aside his imprudent ‘Fourteen...
If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)
Then the angel...
We have celebrated a number of 'Catherines' of late in our liturgical calendar, two of them Canadian: Kateri Tekakwitha on April 17th, the native convert who adopted the name of Catherine of Siena, whose...
There's the old saying about ‘going west’ that appeals to the soul of the wanderer. Why this should be, I wonder, as I myself wander west’ to California, in part for the wedding of...
'Tis difficult to believe that Quebec was once a a bastion of the Faith, incarnating in an almost unique way in the historical annals the harmony between Church and State, offering the early pioneers...