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.
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...
The Gong Show - from which we derive the term 'a gong show', sometimes morphed into a more scatological form, which may apply more aptly here - was a campy variety program that ran...
Mask Mania, militaristically mandated, continues, almost unabated, the talisman of the age, the sign of do-gooder-ism - no, not a pro-life t-shirt, or even any of those AIDS and other causes-ribbons that were the...
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II - it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what those who want to...
The historian Roberto Mattei penned an article recently for LifeSiteNews, in which he argues that if sections of the ecumenical Council of Constance (1414-15) could be declared null and void –then so could the...
Before we leave this July 27th in the rearview mirror, a brief note to commemorate the discovery of insulin on this day in 1921 by Dr. Frederick Banting, John James Macleod, Charles Best and...
The Muslims know how to pick their days. But, then, so does God. As mentioned a few days ago, for the first time in nearly a century, the ancient church of Hagia Sophia, one...