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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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The Foiling of Fawkes

Remember, remember! the fifth of November.     The Gunpowder treason and plot;     I know of no reason     Why the Gunpowder treason     Should ever be forgot!     Guy Fawkes and his companions  ...

Conscience and the Mandates

There is a science – one might more properly term it an art - to moral discernment in our Church’s tradition, and we offer it here as a guide for our readers, for their...

Max Planck’s Mighty Minimum

Suppose for instance someone maintained that there is a minimum magnitude; that man with his minimum would shake the foundations of mathematics. So prophesied Aristotle more twenty-four centuries ago. And, as with many things Aristotelian,...

What ‘Following the Science’ Really Means: The Limits of Medicine and Moral Freedom

If there is one thing that is omnipresent in empirical research, it is doubt. This line has always stuck with me, from a methodology textbook I studied years ago. We may rephrase this in a...

Matthew’s Marvelous Metanoia

Saint Matthew, also known as Levi, presents Christ as the new Moses, leading His people from the darkness and slavery of sin into the light and freedom of salvation. Yet, Matthew also likely saw...

Trudeau’s Totalitarianism

A vote for Trudeau and his Liberals is a vote for totalitarianism, and a pernicious version at that. Before we cast that ballot, dear reader, we should ponder, reflect and inform our conscience, before which...

Dante’s Seven Centuries

Dante Alighieri died 700 years ago today, at the age of 56, on the evening of September 13th, 1321, fittingly the vigil of the feast of the Holy Cross, at Ravenna, exiled from his...

Crecy and the Changing Face of War

The protracted Hundred Years' War, (if the term protracted is not redundant) which was more like a series of dynastic wars mainly between French and England, lasted more than a decade longer than its...

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