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.
Can Popes be Heretics?
Is the Pope a heretic? should sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but is a charge that has been made by a...
Martha, Mary and Ill-Fated Marriage
Our Lady of Fatima purportedly revealed to young Jacinta that many marriages are not willed by God, the truth of which may be borne...
The Evisceration of John Paul II?
The plot of this Pontificate thickens, as news of the summary and forthwith firing of two pillars of the Pope John Paul II Institute...
Charbel’s Hidden Fruitfulness
Today is the memorial of Saint Charbel Maklouf (+1898), an ascetic, chaste, humble example of monastic sanctity, who spent his life as a priest-hermit...
Bridget the Charitable Bibliophile
Saint Bridget of Sweden (+1373) was known for her kindness, her patience, her good works, first, as a wife and mother of six children,...
Keep up the Good Fight of the Faith
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, the Sixteenth in Ordinary Time, or the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost in the usus antiquior. Either way,...
Fifty Years On, the Controversy Continues
I was not sure we should mention the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landings, fraught as they are with so-called conspiracy theories. Whatever one...
Georgian Bay Pilgrimage
I've been gone for a couple of days, on pilgrimage to Martyrs' Shrine, in Midland, Ontario, of which I have written a number of...
Bonaventure the Beloved
Saint Bonaventure, whom we celebrate today, the day of his death in 1274 - a few months after his contemporary, Saint Thomas Aquinas. Both...
Excuses, Truth and Nothing But
Just after posting the announcement on the week-long showing of Unplanned in Canadian theatres, it was announced this morning that two of those theatres...
