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.
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told - that he survived unscathed being burnt in a furnace, that wild bears refused to...
The widening chasm in the Catholic Church - mirroring that in the broader society and culture - continues unabated. One is left wondering at the statement by Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey,...
In honour of this memorial of the Holy Name of theĀ Blessed Virgin, we might peruse Pope Saint John Paul II's encyclical on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, which he promulgated on the 25th anniversary...
(This article recently appeared in Catholic World Report and may serve as a good addendum to Father Callam's exhortation for the Church to canonize more married people. Well, what of the singles, we may...
(A re-post of this earlier article in July, with a comment at the end that all readers should peruse, and follow the link...the plot doth thickeneth)
Father Michel Rodrigue is a Quebecois priest, currently incardinated...
This first day of September marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II, with Germany's invasion of Poland, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Germany and Russia...
Saint Pius X (+1914), born Guiseppe Sarto, was a peasant, he was the first such in centuries, the custom being that popes were chosen from the 'nobility' - it is a true rags to...