John Paul Meenan, Editor
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 Barrier of Bannister’s Mile
On May 6th, 1954, on a make-do track field in Oxford, in windy and blustery conditions, medical student Roger Bannister broke what some thought...
The Mauling of Dahl
Roald Dahl (+1990) is being mauled, along with Dr. Seuss (+1991), and, as the Cat in the Hat might declare, we should be appalled,...
Marriage, Divorce and Seeking Happiness
The old joke has it that Milton wrote Paradise Lost after he got married; and when his wife died, he penned the sequel, Paradise...
Pretense at Saint John Lateran
Pretense:
 A false appearance or action intended to deceive.
 A professed but feigned reason or excuse; a pretext.
Something imagined or pretended. (https://www.wordnik.com/words/pretense)
What term...
Saint George, Shakespeare and the Millennium
Today is a national holiday in England - as they commemorate the semi-legendary Saint George, martyr for the Faith, slayer of the dragon and...
Brian Boru, Charles and James
On this day in 1014, at the Battle of Clontarf, just outside Dublin, the great high king of Ireland, Brian Boru, died in battle...
Mr. Weigel’s Inconsistent Proportionalism
George Weigel just posted an impassioned condemnation of the moral error of proportionalism - that the overall good of any moral decision is the...
Venantius’ Vexilla Regis Prodeunt
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a self-described wandering minstrel in Europe of the very early Middle Ages, or late Antiquity, or the inaptly-described 'Dark...
The Salvific Power of Beauty
Dostoyevsky wrote, through the voice of Prince Myskin in his novel, The Idiot, that âbeauty would save the worldâ.
I have often wondered about that...
A Mass Schedule in Time Capsule: What Happened?
For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini's Jesus Christus - his 1963 meditation on the life of the...
