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.
Adam, Eve, Christ and Mary
Christmas Eve is the traditional feast of Adam and Eve, our primordial parents, considered saints in the Church, brought to heaven on the first...
Thoughts on Father Pavone
What is one to say about the laicization of Father Frank Pavone? (so we will refer to him, even in a posteriori sense, for...
On the Beach, With Benedict and Hope
Pope Benedict XVI, in his second encyclical, the 2008 Spe Salvi (Salvific Hope) offers a distinction from the Letter to the Hebrews: We as...
Obsessed with Death
In his 1987 novel, The Thanatos Syndrome, physician-turned-author Walker Percy imagines a town whose inhabitants are reverting to simianism, that is, becoming more ape-like,...
History is Christological, Mariological – and Josephological
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man's Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but...
Saint Bernard’s Three Advents
In one of his sermons, the Cistercian abbot, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (+1090) distinguishes three Advents of Christ: The first, at Christmas, when He...
The Fall of Malta? But Not of Vella
We need more leaders like George Vella, current president of Malta. The small jewel of an island nation, in the middle of the Mediterranean,...
Corrupting Constitutions, Controlled Commuting and Changing Climates
In discussing the theme of Church-State relations in class, I offer students examples of constitutions of various countries, those founding documents that shape the...
Christus Vincit!
A blessed solemnity of Christ the King to all our readers! A rather recent feast, as Church history goes, first promulgated by Pope Pius...
Drifting Down the Stream
The saying has it that politics is downstream of culture, and I would only add that so is everything else. For what is a...
