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.
Today marks the anniversary of the official beginning of the French Revolution, back in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille prison. Much ado is made of this 'storming', even though there were only...
(In light of Saint Anthony Maria Zeccaria, and other saints of the 'devotio moderna' who advocated frequent, even daily, reception of the Eucharist, here is a reply to an exhoration by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski...
R.R. Reno is onto something with his claim that the ‘rainbow flag’ means far more than tolerance and all getting along, but an entire new regime, a metaphysical revolution, a transvaluation of all values...
I have an article out on Catholic World Report, with some thoughts on the SSPX, which is personal to me, as one who loves Tradition, but how we reappropriate the treasures of the Church...
What is a ‘restorer’? One restores buildings, books, institutions, and it seems a good thing to do so. Pope Saint Pius X’s motto was instaurare omnia in Christo – to restore all things in...
Today's solemnity of the Sacred Heart is of rather recent provenance as Church history goes. Although the full humanity of Christ, body and soul, was defined clearly in the first series of ecumenical Councils...
Venerable Fulton Sheen said that one of the hallmarks of the demon was an inordinate love of nudity - that is, to flaunt what should not be flaunted, and a disregard, if not outright...
'Anti-hate' is all the rage, if one may excuse the mixed metaphor. The ‘anti’ of something is, logically, its contrary, and the contrary of hate is, of course, love.
But what are love and hate?...