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.
George Weigel’s Moral Blind Spot
George Weigel, papal biographer, in a recent article inĀ First Things, offers a defense of President Trumanās terrible decision in 1945 to destroy the two...
Januarius and His Blood
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told - that he survived unscathed...
The Cardinal’s Candidate
The widening chasm in the Catholic Church - mirroring that in the broader society and culture - continues unabated. One is left wondering at...
And the Virgin’s Name was Mary
In honour of this memorial of the Holy Name of theĀ Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary,...
Vocation and the Single Life
(This article recently appeared in Catholic World Report and may serve as a good addendum to Father Callam's exhortation for the Church to canonize...
Some Thoughts on the Alleged Prophecies of Father Michel Rodrigue
(A re-post of this earlier article in July, with a comment at the end that all readers should peruse, and follow the link...the plot...
WW II, Euthanasia and a Neo-Dachau
This first day of September marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II, with Germany's invasion of Poland, one week after...
Instaurare Omnia in Christo
Saint Pius X (+1914), born Guiseppe Sarto, was a peasant, he was the first such in centuries, the custom being that popes were chosen...
The Liberal Gong Show
The Gong Show - from which we derive the term 'a gong show', sometimes morphed into a more scatological form, which may apply more...
