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.
The Coronavirus saga continues. As an older friend of mine ā a healthy and vigorous late-septuagenarian - put it to me recently, heās not sick of the virus, but heās sick of the virus....
As we move towards Holy Week in this last week of LentĀ - in the midst of this global crisis, the unfolding effects of which are almost unknowable - it may help upon the mystery...
The Bishop of Boise, Idaho, Peter F. Christensen, has specifically forbidden his priests, even in their ultra-private Masses now mandated, from celebrating āad orientemā. Weāve got to stop all those young rebels, it seems,...
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statisticsā¦
So quipped Mark Twain, and, in the main, he was right. Statistics can be made to say pretty much whatever one wants them to...
We are getting towards the latter days of the great journey of Lent, - and this has been a Lent to end all Lents, at least in our brief lifetimes. The word 'Lent' is...
Tomorrow, March 29th, in the year of Our Lord 2020, five centuries after the beginning of what is known as the 'Protestant Reformation', England is being re-consecrated to Our Lady, through the intercession of...
Aristotle wrote that virtue resides in a mean, a balance between two extremes, finding that sweet spot in the middle whereby one does the right thing, at the right time, in the right way....