John Paul Meenan

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.
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No Harvard Anywhere, and Other Notes

Stephen Gordon argues that it is a good thing that Canada does not have an ‘elite’ university like Harvard (and, by extension one may presume, no ‘ivy league’ universities at all).  His argument, from...

The Indomitable Hilary of Poitiers

Today is the feast of Saint Hilary of Poitiers (310-367), Bishop and Doctor of the Church, who was such a brilliant foe of the fourth century heresy that denied the divinity of Christ he...

The Wrath of Agha Khan’s Island

One can only hope that Justin Trudeau's sense of entitlement and noblesse is finally catching up to him.  Even the secular media, who have placed their halo around his hallowed locks, are in consternation...

Of Death and Baptism

Another day, yet another terrorist attack, this time in Israel, where a Palestinian, an 'ISIS sympathizer', drove a truck through a squad of Israeli soldiers, backing over his victims, before being shot to death...

PTSD, Violence and Responsibility

Another day, another shooting, this time on American soil, at Fort Lauderdale International Airport. Details are still forthcoming, but the alleged perpetrator is a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq war, who claimed the...

Saint John Neumann and Bishops

Today is the feast of Saint John Neumann, born in Bohemia, but who  travelled to the United States in 1836 to seek ordination since there were ‘too many priests’ in his native country (remember...

Apostasy in Shusaku Endo’s Silence

A recent article in First Things by J.D. Flynn reflects upon Shusaku Endo’s 1966 Japanese novel Silence, now being released as a film directed by Martin Scorcese (which should tell you something). The tale follows an idealistic Jesuit missionary...

Of 2017, and the Continuing Struggle of and with Islam

Ringing in the new year of 2017, rife with predictions from seers and others on what might happen during this 100th anniversary of the Fatima revelations, has already seen its troubling signs.  One thousand...

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