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.
Dancing Away the Darkness
Saint Francis de Sales once quipped, if my fallible memory serves, that dances were a lot like mushrooms: Even the best weren't worth that...
The Fate of Unbaptized Babies: Matthew Plese…Please Distinguish
Over at OnePeterFive, columnist Matthew Plese, who, according to his by-line, is a Third Order Dominican and an official catechist, claims as Church dogma...
Deep Fakes, Deep Lies
Imagine seeing yourself on a video doing and saying things - especially scandalous things - you never did. At least, you cannot recall them,...
Billionaire Bill and the Woeful Wages of Mammon
Sam Kriss has an intriguing take on Bill Gates, and what being that rich - I mean, really, unimaginably rich - does to someone....
Is the SSPX Really a Refuge for Traditional Catholics?
Where do traditional Catholics go from here? Of course, all Catholics should be 'traditional', in the sense of preserving, living by and handing on...
Simon, Jude and Desperate Causes
All of the Apostles have a feast day, and, on this day at the end of October - the same day that Emperor Constantine...
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes
No Pope is impeccable, even if, by virtue of their office, they are at times infallible – or, more precisely, a few of their...
Camp of the (Un)Saints
Ponder this list of names of the alleged perpetrators of a grooming-and-rape gang in Britain involving a 13 year-old girl. One name is not...
Iniquitous Westphalia
October 24th, 1648, marks the official end of the Thirty Years War, which had begun in 1618, and was one of the bloodiest and...
Saint Ursula and her Myriad Companions
Today is the traditional commemoration of Saint Ursula, who was put to death on this October 21st, in 383, along with - as the...
