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.
Saint Paul of the Cross (+1775), the second of sixteen children, grew up in poverty in rural Italy, knowing the value of things, and with only six of his siblings surviving infancy, the brevity...
A blessed Sunday to all our readers, on which we always commemorate Christ's resurrection and triumph over decay and destruction, trampling death for all eternity. The readings speak of the cleansing of the lepers,...
Today marks the beginning of two synods, the one on the âAmazonâ, with its controversial working document, and the one in Germany, with perhaps its even more controversial agenda: Married priests; ânatural revelationâ given...
In a surprise move, Pope Francis has appointed a Canadian Jesuit priest, Father Michael Czerny, as one of the newest members of the august body of Cardinals in the Church. There have been âcardinalsâ...
What is one to say of our Prime Minister - or Prime Minstrel, as he has been dubbed - prancing around in blackface, curiously downplayed by the CBC and other Liberal-friendly media to perhaps...
To pretend that angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don't see ourselves sleeping (Saint Thomas Aquinas)
Had I many thousands of lives I would offer them all for him. Never shall I apostatise. You may kill me if that is what you want. To die for God â such is my...