Saturday, August 16, 2025

John Paul Meenan, Editor

John Paul Meenan, Editor
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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.

Ascending to the Father

A blessed feast of the Ascension to all our readers who live where it’s transferred to the Sunday, when Christ ascended body and soul...

The Feast of the Visitation

A blessed feast of the Visitation to all our readers, wherein we recall the meeting of no less than four chosen souls: Our Lady,...

Sainte Jeanne d’Arc, the Mighty Maid of Orleans

My soul doth magnify the Lord. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded: the lowliness of his handmaiden:...

Rise and Fall: Everest and Constantinople

May 29th is the anniversary of two world changing events: The first was the reaching the summit of Mount Everest, the top of the...

Finding Sanctity in a Controversial Papacy: Paul VI

Today, May 29th, is the optional memorial of Pope Saint Paul VI, celebrated on the anniversary of his ordination in 1920. This year, ironically,...

Saint Augustine of Canterbury, the Man Who Who Made England Catholic

There are two Saints Augustine - the bishop of Hippo, and author of the Confessions and numerous other theological masterpieces, and, today's saint, Augustine,...

Saint Philip Neri’s Joyful Heart

We celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic – the two are not unrelated - of saints, Philip Neri, (+1595), the founder...

Saints Bede, Gregory VII, and Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi

There are many saints in the Church's history - there are, by one estimate, about 6000 at least quasi-officially canonized - too many ever...

Blessed Louis-Zepherin, a Model Bishop for Canada

Today in Canada we celebrate Blessed Louis-Zepherin Moreau, (1824 - 1901) an exemplary bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe in Quebec. Born rather sickly and undersized to...

Saint Rita’s Mission Impossible

We have it on good authority that nothing is impossible with God - or, as the Gabriel puts it, all things are possible with the...