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 celebration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist - an expeditious entrance into heaven - is sort of a bookend to the summer; you may recall that June 24th, just after the...
A blessed feast of the great Saint Augustine (354-430), bishop and doctor of the Church, and one of the greatest theologians in her history. His voluminous works - his autobiography, sermons, commentaries, letters, -...
Monica is the patron saint of mothers - not least, those who pray for the conversion of their children, an integral part of the maternal vocation, as many a mother will admit. Even for...
This feast of the 'Queen of Poland' is a national holiday in that great nation, with thousands of pilgrims flocking to her shrine at Jazna Gora, where the precious image of Our Lady of Częstochowa...
My dear son, in the first place I teach you that you must love the Lord, your God, with all your heart and all your strength; unless you do so you cannot be saved....
We would be remiss if we did not at least remark on this day on the great and sadly forgotten Saint Joseph Calasanz (+1648), a zealous priest, pastor, reformer and educator, who more or...
The indomitable Cardinal Sarah exhorted in an article in CWR, to French scouts, on pilgrimage to Vezelay in France, that they should emulate the noble virtues of King Saint Louis IX, providing a...
A blessed feast of Saint Bartholomew, to one and all! Like many of the Apostles, we don't know all that much about the life of today's saint. Our Tradition identifies Bartholomew with the 'Nathaniel'...