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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.
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Apple Crushes Reality

Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good uses of, say, thermonuclear bombs - see the final scene...

JP II, Ubi Es Tu?

I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it's true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II's Wednesday audiences have been deleted from the Vatican website: https://twitter.com/protectthefaith/status/1783527425135038782?s=42&t=83OSIayTnuI3BEvKR4ry8w This is rather...

Pilgrimaging at Three Miles an Hour

It seems slow - walking, that is - and, to our modern modes of transport, it is. Bikes can move at about 20 miles per hour; cars, 60; airplanes, 400 or more. Yet, as Nick...

Blessed Marie-Anne Blondin: Martyr of Silence

Bd. Marie-Anne Blondin (+1890), whose optional memorial falls today in our fair Dominion, the day of her birth in 1809, five decades before Canada was Canada. Most Canadians, alas, have likely never heard of...

Nae Country Fer Young Men

As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to the auld sod. The brogue is still somewhat natural to...

Trudeau’s Carbon Tax, and the Rule of Non-Law

This April 1st is the Monday of Easter Octave - and a continued blessed one to all. Christus resurrexit vere, alleluia! But in the secular world All Fools' Day, fitting for Prime Minister Trudeau's...

Good Friday and War

On the theme of suffering on this Good Friday, there is a pertinent and evocative reflection by James Bogle on OnePeterFive on the bombing of Japanese Catholicism - that is, the unnecessary destruction of...

The Mystery of the Massacre in Moscow

What we seem to know of what happened in Moscow, is that four gunmen stormed a sold-out concert, killed at least 137 people - many more, up to 200, were injured, some critically. But...

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