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.
Amazon’s Censorship and Southwell’s Truth
Censorship on a scale even Orwell couldn't imagine in 1984 is ramping up, only four decades or so off his predicted date, but here...
Doubt on Doubling Down
Are we still permitted to question and debate the mask and lockdowns, or is the new inquisition muzzling us in more than a figurative...
Beginning Lent
A blessed and grace-filled Lenten season to all our readers, beginning with this solemn commemoration of Ash Wednesday to launch us on our way...
When Refusing Communion is an Act of Love and Healing
'Shunning', 'exclusion', 'forbidding', even, dare we add, 'excommunication' - hardly words that are often connected with 'love', which on the contrary oft goes along...
Will the Real Fascism Please Stand Up?
Yelling 'Fascist!'' is one vivid and quite effective way to shut down an honest debate - in the pre-mask era, a bit of spittle...
Hoping Against Hope
Whether the young and drunkards both abound in hope is a question asked by Saint Thomas in his treatise on that most enigmatic and...
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our...
Saint Vincent and Roe versus Wade: Great Good out of Great Evil
Saint Vincent the Deacon (+304), who suffered grievous tortures witnessing to his Catholic faith under the Diocletian persecution, is a providential saint for this...
The Limits of Papal Authority, and the Covid Vaccine
Pope Francis has added the heft of his papal authority to the question of the Covid vaccine in a television recent interview:
I believe that...
The Covid Vaccine: Formal and Material Cooperation, and the Principle of Double Effect
Opinions on the 'vaccine' range from those who see it as the prophylactic panacea to bring us back to peace and normality - whatever...
