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.
In these latter days of Advent, our focus, liturgically and devotionally, is on Our Lady, expectant, preparing to give birth to the One who would redeem the world. And we too wait, with joy,...
O, how the mighty have fallen! Such was the lament over King Saul, who began with great promise, head and shoulders above the rest of men, reduced to having his footman kill him, as...
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to support New York's vaccine mandate in a 6 - 3 decision. More specifically, they declined to permit 'religious exemptions', permitting only the medical exemptions to stand. Justice...
Death Race 2000 – a 1975 dystopian thriller, with a tinge of what might pass for humour – takes place in a totalitarian America in the millennial year, with martial law imposed, and the...
Que soy era immaculada Concepciou - I am the Immaculate Conception
These are the words with which Our Lady replied to Saint Bernadette Sobirous, in the local French patois, when asked by the young visionary...
On September 23rd, 1924, the universe got a little bigger - at least from our perspective. The ancients - Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy - thought the cosmos more or less the size of our Solar...
Newfoundland and Labrador, jutting out into the cold North Atlantic, have been battered in past decades - no pun on their fishing industry, which has too suffered. They seem to get the worst of...