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.
Mary’s Fiat
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of...
Dumbed Down and Drugged Up
Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what 'intelligence' implies - knowledge of fundamental...
Dwindling – or is That Dawning – Hope?
George Weigel has always been rather sanguine about the ecclesia moderna. The author of the tome-like biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope,...
15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?
There's much ado of late on '15 minute cities', (FMCs - like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of...
Cheating Chat-GPT
In 1950, Alan Turing - one of the inventors of the modern computer, and fresh from helping win the war by designing it to...
The Rise – and Fall? – of the Nones
He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
"When the unclean spirit has gone out...
Saints Hilary and Cassian
A brief mention of two saints, both of whose commemorations fall on February 29th - the day of their deaths. Hence, on non-leap years...
Benedict’s Legacy
(This was posted four years ago, but the few thoughts therein still seem relevant...)
It was six years ago today that Pope Emeritus Benedict’s resignation...
A Sombre Anniversary
As we commemorate this day, February 24th, the official beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, we should all be praying for some sort a...
Saint Joseph’s Catholic – But is his High School?
At what point do we here in Ontario stop calling Catholic schools, Catholic? A name, says the Catechism, expresses a person's essence. And what...
