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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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Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton: The First American-Born Saint

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774 - 1821) signifies what America once was and, by the grace of God, may yet be again - the true 'MAGA', if you will, not based on money, but...

The Holy Name of Jesus

Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under...

The Church Could Use A Few More Thomas (Ă ) Beckets

A blessed continuing 'Merrie Christmas!' to all our readers, on this sixth day of the Octave, and then on through the the twelve days, right up to the Epiphany and the Baptism of our...

In the Bleak Midwinter, Gaudete Christus Natus Est

It's lovely how the simplest tunes often - perhaps most often, maybe even always - make the most beautiful of melodies. So it is with Gustav Holst's (1874-1934) carol 'In the Bleak Midwinter' (1906)...

The Hope of the Holy Innocents

The feast of the Holy Innocents, which we celebrate appropriately enough within the octave of Christmas, might seem a troubling commemoration at first glance.  Remembering the wholesale slaughter of all the male children two...

Saint John, the Apostle of the Logos

On this third day of Christmas, we not only get three french hens, but, far better, we get to celebrate the beloved Apostle, Saint John the Evangelist, whose Gospel signifies most clearly the eternal...

On the Feast of Stephen…not Boxing Day!

As the mid-19th century hymn has it, Good King Wenceslaus first went out, on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay 'round about, deep and crisp and even...a hymn, published in 1853, which...

Saints Adam and Eve

Christmas Eve is the traditional commemoration of Adam and Eve, our first parents – I don’t think there’s any etymological connection between Eve and Eve, the first derived from ye Olde English ǣfnung, which...

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