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.
Ascension and the Maid of Orleans
In the universal Church, this is the feast of the Ascension, celebrated forty days after the Resurrection, on which we begin the most ancient...
Courage, Conviction and Conservatism
Our mind-numbing, tax-crazy, abortion-euthanasia-climate-gender-sex-obsessed, debt-and-deficit-be-damned embarrassment of a government just gets worse by the day. And, although I am not one for posting privately...
The Tragic Dignity of Margaret Pole
A brief mention of today's saint, Blessed Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (+1541), the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, who was in turn...
Canterbury’s Augustine
As providence would have it, on this memorial of Saint Augustine of Canterbury – the ‘other’ Saint Augustine – who evangelized and solidified the...
The Anti-Depressant Saint
If it 'twere not the Sixth Sunday of Easter, we would celebrate today one of the most joyful and idiosyncratic of saints, Philip Neri,...
Western Schism, Redivivus?
There is no easy solution to the present crisis in the Catholic Church, which is a crisis of faith, of doctrine, of morals and...
Father Jonathan Morris’ Circuitous Road
I must confess that I had never heard of Father Jonathan Morris – perhaps for the simple reason that I don’t watch television -...
Mothers and Saints
If I may be permitted a brief personal note to our Catholic Insight readers to let you all know that my dear mother, Maria...
Bernardine and the Holy Name
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century,...
The Providential Connection Between Popes John and John Paul
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution...
