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.
There are different ways of being a hypocrite, some worse than others. There are some of us – let’s just say all of us - who say one thing and do another, out of...
To paraphrase a popular alliterative 1958 novelty song, we are becoming a nation of pathological people pleasers – and by ‘we’ I mean those on the side of truth, goodness and beauty. Those pushing...
That, dear reader, is the wrong question to ask, for money is a symbol, with no intrinsic value; hence, there no limit to how much money might be printed, (or, now, conjured up on...
The Monday following Pentecost is now the memorial of 'The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church', as decreed by the Holy Father, via Robert Cardinal Sarah, directed by the Holy Father, three years...
On this day in 1609, Shakespeare's sonnets were first published, all 154 of them, by a certain Thomas Young, perhaps illegaly; but, they were more chill with copyright back then. A fitting one on...
On May 10th, the memorial of Saint John of Avila, priest and doctor of the Church, Pope Francis promulgated the Motu Proprio Antiquum Ministerium, instituting, or re-instituting as its title suggests, the ministry of...
A very blessed and joyous Solemnity of the Ascension to all our readers... At least in the Church universal, which follows the historical fact that the original Ascension occurred on a Thursday, and is...
A good choice was made with Saint Matthias, in accordance with God's holy will, and we may rejoice accordingly on this feast of the Apostle.
But Good goes along with Evil in this vale of...