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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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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...

Power, Authority and the Rhinoceros

(Another re-post, which I hope helps the reader see his way through our current thicket) G.K. Chesterton once quipped that a rhinoceros in a china shop has all the power, but no authority. The curator,...

The Limits of Papal Authority

(In light of Pope Francis' recent comments that those who refused to get the Covid 'vaxx' is tantamount to quasi-suicide, here are my thoughts in his previous exhortation on this controversial topic from two...

Ite Ad Ioseph!

A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saint Joseph to all our readers! The strong and silent saint from the Gospel is a fitting one for our troubled times: Husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster...

Entropy and the Last Word

When Sadi Carnot formulated the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the early 19th century, a law also known as the law of entropy, people did not at first believe it, or want to believe...

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