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.
Suffering and Contending Cardinals
A blessed memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, the World Day of the Sick, on which I posted a few words in an editorial....
Humpty Dumpty, Revolutions and Two Saints
In one of the many ironies of this Humpty Dumpty age where words no longer mean what they are meant to mean, but only...
Blackface or Blackheart?
Minstrelsy has a rather long and convoluted history, its origin with a singing group of white men from Virginia - the Virginia Minstrels -...
Wherefore art thou, Modesty?
It may seem a bit odd to speak of modesty when the weather outside is frightful—at least roundabout where I live in rural Ontario. But...
2019 Dystopia, Papal Pilgrimage and Super Bowls
I just read that 2019 was the futuristic year – at least in relative terms – in which the films Blade Runner (1982) and...
Sample’s Quiet Revolution
Liturgical music. The phrase may instil a faint feeling of nausea in those even remotely attuned to true beauty, as the strains of treacly...
Terror, Thomas and Abortion
Another Islamic bombing, one that adds sacrilege to sacrifice, as the target were participants in Sunday Mass at the cathedral of Our Lady of...
The True Ecumenism of Saint Francis de Sales
In this week of prayer for Christian unity, I have an article on the Toronto archdiocesan webpage – or more like a few brief...
Notre Dame de Pontmain, Mother of Hope
Besides being the universal memorial of Saint Anthony, Abbot and Desert Father, one of the primary founders of monasticism – especially of the eremitical...
Snakes in Paradise
Did a snake really wash - or swim - ashore in Ireland – a land that, according to pious tradition, has been without the slithering...
