John Paul Meenan

Saint Norbert (+1134) of Xanten was a zealous bishop and founder, who was at the forefront of the ecclesial reform named after Pope Gregory VII, a pope often referred to by his previous name,...

With the passage of Bill C-9 by the Senate yesterday, we're now closer than ever here in Canada to the dystopias predicted by Orwell's 1984 and Bradbury' Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned and...

Saint Boniface, bishop, missionary and martyr was hacked to death by a band of Frisian idol-worshippers on this June 5th in 754, along with 52 of his companions. There must have been quite a...

This co-founder of the Adorno Fathers was born Ascanio dei Caracciolo Pisquizi, in the kingdom of Naples in the year 1563, just as the Protestant revolt was reaching its crescendo. Italy was largely spared...

There's an old joke that asks what's the difference between God and a doctor? God doesn't think He's a doctor. Sure, it's hyperbolic and cynical, and many physicians do sacrificial hidden work for their innumerable patients,...

If the Church seems moribund in North America, there is hope in the vast continent of Africa, where there are untold millions of Catholics, fervent, joyful and full of life. This spiritual energy that...

Like many of the early martyrs, not much is known of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, except that they died for the Faith during the persecution of Diocletian in 304, put to death by beheading...

  Something Wicked: Why Feminism Can't Be Fused with Christianity Sophia Institute Press Manchester, New Hampshire Copyright 2021, 2025 241 pp. I’ve been meaning to write a few words on a new, and controversial, book making the rounds, namely, Dr....