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 Legionaries of Christ are currently gathered for their General Chapter, held every six years. This is in accord with the principle of semper reformanda. Every society, especially those in the Church, and even...
Entropy may be described as the tendency of all things degrade, to move from order to disorder, from cosmos to chaos, from specificity to entropy. It is the inevitable consequence of any closed system,...
(Last year marked the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Thomas Aquinas, who came into this world on this January 28th, 1225. The great saint and doctor died in 1274, and was canonized...
Today's feast of the great priest and doctor of the Church, Saint Thomas Aquinas, is also the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1988 striking down of the abortion laws put in place in 1969...
Saint Angela Merici (+1540) lived and died in Italy, growing up to adulthood during the tumultuous events of the early Reformation (she went to eternity five years after the erstwhile chancellor and martyr Thomas...
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth (Saint Thomas Aquinas, +1274)
If there is a patron saint of ecumenism, Saint Francis de Sales fits the...
A few words on this feast of the patron saint of writers, as well as this week dedicated to Christian unity; Francis de Sales (+1622) expressed, at the height of the divisions and schisms...
We live as we pray, for we pray as we live. (CCC, 2725)
So it seems the Liturgy was taken off the agenda at the recent consistory of cardinals. Still, the current head of the...