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.
July 12th is the day chosen as the feast of the parents of the 'Little Flower', for which Louis and Zelie Martin are most renowned. They were, however, saints in their own right, and raised...
Ellen Wiebe loves her job. I would call her a 'doctor', for she is technically qualified as a physician. But since her job is primarily killing people, as Jonathon van Maren points out, especially...
We can learn much from those with whom we disagree, even on the most fundamental issues. Extrema se tangunt, goes the Latin proverb - extremes touch each other. Nietzsche is eminently quotable, and his...
In one of those many mysteries of providence, this day marking the martyrs of China is also the anniversary of the Martyrs of Gorkum, nineteen Catholic priests, diocesan and religious, hanged on this day...
July 9th is the traditional feast of Saint Cilian, also Kilian (640 - 689), an Irish missionary monk who took the Catholic Faith from Ireland – already well established after the work of Saint...
The apostles said to the Lord, "Increase our faith!" And the Lord said, "If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, `Be rooted up, and...
(It's hard to believe that I wrote this seven years ago, and how far we traveled the road to Mordor since then. Remember Kathleen Wynne, the openly lesbian premier of Ontario? I have not...
Saint Irenaeus (+202 A.D.), bishop of Lugdunum - now Lyons - in the second century of the Church's existence, a disciple of the martyr Saint Polycarp, who was in turn a disciple of Saint...