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.
Evelyn Waugh and the Mass of the Ages
I was struck as I finished up reading over a small volume of letters by the great English writer Evelyn Waugh, author of such...
The Good Side of the Covid Crisis
And, therefore, my own good daughter, do not let your mind be troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world.Ā Nothing...
Policing, Policies and the Polis
The Coronavirus saga continues. As an older friend of mine ā a healthy and vigorous late-septuagenarian - put it to me recently, heās not...
The Mystery of Salvific Suffering
As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of LentĀ - in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which...
Ad Orientem, et Pro Populo
The Bishop of Boise, Idaho, Peter F. Christensen, has specifically forbidden his priests, even in their ultra-private Masses now mandated, from celebrating āad orientemā....
Stats, Reality and Repentance
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statisticsā¦
So quipped Mark Twain, and, in the main, he was right. Statistics can be...
Hope and Joy in these Latter Lenten Days
We are getting towards the latter days of the great journey of Lent, - and this has been a Lent to end all Lents,...
The Re-Consecration of England Through Our Lady of Walsingham
Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England...
Finding a Balance
Aristotle wrote that virtue resides in a mean, a balance between two extremes, finding that sweet spot in the middle whereby one does the...
