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 am humbled that Bishop Strickland not only took the time to read my few thoughts on two articles recently published on LifeSiteNews, but to respond at some length.
Allow me to say a few...
The saints during Lent - with few exceptions, such as Saint Joseph - are celebrated as muted 'commemorations', but that does not decrease their significance as saints, and we should still remember them for...
Every branch of mine that bears no fruit, he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. (John 15:2)
Many of the persecutions in history began...
A very happy Saint Patrickās Day, to all our readers, and we extend that to all who are of Irish lineage, or those who would like to be, or those who just enjoy participating...
Saint Mathilda (c. 892 - 968) of Ringleheim - which has a melodious mediaeval ring to it - was of royal vintage, when that meant something, back in the early Middle Ages. She was...
We would remiss on this March 10th if we didnāt mention the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, a group of elite Roman legionaries ā called the Fulminata (āthe ligthningā regiment) - who en masse...
John Ogilvie was born in 1579, just as the Protestant 'reformation' was taking hold in Britain, including his native land of Scotland, led by the fiery apostate priest John Knox. Catholicism would soon be...
We should not be surprised that the saints speak to us through the ages, how they responded in their own era - always with its own troubles and crises - offering us an example...