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.
On this day, in 1925, a young German veteran, bitter in soul from the humiliating defeat of his nation in the recent war ‘to end all wars’, published a vitriolic book, Mein Kampf –...
One of the primary tasks of a free citizenry is to resist encroaching tyranny – even of the ‘soft’ variety - for once we’ve given up our rights, ‘tis very difficult to get them...
Newton’s Third Law has many applications, as does Hegel’s dialectic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in that eternal struggle of the World Spirit – even in the ecclesial and theological realm. For the Church, in her earthly...
Today, July 13th is the a 103rd anniversary of the third vision at Fatima - no, not the third secret, which is another story - to the three shepherd children, the one in which...
Today we remember Saint Henry, Emperor of the Romans and King of the Italians, the last of the 'Ottonian' line - deriving from the original Emperor, Otto I. Henry was from Bavaria – whence...
(The following was recently published on LifeSite, in response to the setting up of a marijuana store - a 'pot shop' - in the small community in which the writer lives, and it may...
A joyous Independence Day to all our American readers, one that may be more muted than days of yore in the troubled United States. There are any number of factions developing in the once-United...
The recent edition of Living with Christ - yes, you know the one, the disposable missalette (which should be an oxymoron) has on its most recent front cover a photo of a young boy...