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 light of the Holy Father's address the other day, in which he mentioned that Mary was and is not a 'co-redeemer', with Christ, the one and unique Redemptor Mundi - but is rather...
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation! to all our readers, which commemorates the conception of the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, in the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity...
The bishops of Quebec, Vancouver, and Toronto and other sundry regions seem finally to realize what is at stake. When Covid first hit, they all went well beyond government protocols - locking down churches...
As we wrote recently, British Columbia currently has a total prohibition on public religious services; what is of most concern to Catholics is the lack of public Masses and other sacraments. Toronto recently won...
Like the Angel of Death, but one that did not pass over, Bill C-7 has been approved by the House of Commons, the Liberals shutting down debate, with the help of the Bloc Quebecois....
Why are things funny? Humour has eluded philosophers, and even more so scientists - and we are living in an increasingly humourless world, with jokes verboten, and everything reduced to a literalistic present tense....
In this Lenten season, readers may feel like the Israelites, under their heavy taskmasters in Egypt, forced to make bricks without straw. People must pay rent and mortgages and taxes without jobs or income;...
George Santayana's aphorism that those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it came to mind quite forcefully this week. And, I thought, if ignorance of history is so deleterious, what are...