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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Mr. Weigel’s Inconsistent Proportionalism

George Weigel just posted an impassioned condemnation of the moral error of proportionalism - that the overall good of any moral decision is the final determinant of the course of action to be chosen,...
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Venantius’ Vexilla Regis Prodeunt

Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus was a self-described wandering minstrel in Europe of the very early Middle Ages, or late Antiquity, or the inaptly-described 'Dark Ages', which in fact had much that was light about...
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The Salvific Power of Beauty

Dostoyevsky wrote, through the voice of Prince Myskin in his novel, The Idiot, that ‘beauty would save the world’. I have often wondered about that quotation, and whether it be true. A number of years...
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A Mass Schedule in Time Capsule: What Happened?

For these latter days of Lent, I just began reading Father Romano Guardini's Jesus Christus - his 1963 meditation on the life of the Saviour, and a recommended read - when I noticed tucked...
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Mary’s Fiat

A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, to all our readers! This feast commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen by the young Hebrew maiden...
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Dumbed Down and Drugged Up

Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, never mind measure. But we can gain some idea of what 'intelligence' implies - knowledge of fundamental principles; problem solving; analogical reasoning; a smattering of history, geography,...
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Nota in Brevis

Dwindling – or is That Dawning – Hope?

George Weigel has always been rather sanguine about the ecclesia moderna. The author of the tome-like biography of John Paul II, Witness to Hope, has turned more elegiac. Back then, at the turn of...
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15 Minute Cities – Utopian Villages, or Dystopic Hells?

There's much ado of late on '15 minute cities', (FMCs - like everything else now, they have their own acronym) a proposed redesigning of our metropolises, so that the basic amenities - groceries, shops,...
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