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.
1452 POSTS

-

0 COMMENTS

Dystopias and Warping Truth

Future dystopias – which now have to be written the present tense – almost invariably involve governmental control and manipulation of the people’s thoughts and consequent behaviour, with a false and deliberately manipulative view...

Ars Scribendi – The Art of Writing, If Not Well, At Least Not Badly

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton There is an old adage that there is no such thing...

Quebec’s Capitulation, and Hopeful Resurgence

Capitulate - to surrender after negotiation of terms. (Merriam-Webster) - literally, to hand over one's head. The statement of the Quebec bishops declaring their submission to the vaccine passport for entry into churches comes across...

Wake Up, Canada!

Réveillez-vous, Canada, and Joan Up! I appreciated Kennedy Hall's clarion call to stand fast against tyranny and oppression - with which I heartily agree - as well as his waxing eloquent on the Canadian virtues...

Freedom Rally 2022: Truckers, Trudeau and Truth

A group of us pilgrimaged forth in the bitter cold last night to support the convoy of truckers heading to Ottawa for today's Freedom Rally. We all stood on the edge of Highway 17...

Hubristic Hypotheses of Climate Change

In light of the recent COP summit – that is, ‘Conference of the Parties’ - in Glasgow in December, Prince Charles has declared that we need to get on a war footing with climate...

Alice von Hildebrand, Requiescat in Pace

Alice von Hildebrand, the widow of Dietrich von Hildebrand, and a brilliant and popular professor of philosophy and theology in her own right, died peacefully in her sleep last Friday, January 14th, at the...

The Pope, Pharma, and Moral Imperatives

What’s the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn’t think He’s a doctor. That used to be funny
 God, of course, knows medicine, having made the human body in its innermost parts. As omniscient and...

Recent posts