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.
A New Archbishop for Toronto
Pope Francis has appointed a new archbishop for Toronto, Auxiliary Bishop Frank Leo, after accepting the resignation of Thomas Cardinal Collins (Bishops are required...
Benedict XV’s War and Peace
There is a fin de siècle feel in the air, akin to what people must have felt in 1914 on eve of the Great...
Salvifici Doloris: Hope and Joy in Suffering
On the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, back in 1984, Pope Saint John Paul II promulgated an Apostolic Letter on the mystery of...
Invoking/Revoking Canon 87
Against the restrictions of Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying draconian dubia, traditionally-minded bishops (would that adjective were superfluous!) always had a recourse in Canon...
Transhumanist Beatitude
When you stop believing in heaven, you're going to make one up, and the fake version always ends up some sort of hell, albeit...
Timothy, Titus and Episcopal Reckoning
A blessed memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, co-workers of Saint Paul, both of them ordained by him into the early episcopacy of the...
Rinse and Repeat By Rote
Great is the power of constant repetition
So wrote David Foster in his Philosophical Scientists, a slim but powerful treatise dispelling some of the basic...
The Algorithm of the Antichrist
What form will the antichrist take? Our Catholic tradition holds that he will be man, filled with evil, under a hypocritical façade of goodness,...
Rush, Entropy…And Electric Barchettas?
Canada, and various jurisdictions in Europe and the U.S., plan to make gasoline-powered vehicles, at least of the personal variety, more or less illegal....
As the Family Goes…
The family is the original cell of society. So says Pope John Paul II, and the Catechism. And we all know what happens when...
