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.
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher (+1849) is commemorated today along with Saint Bruno. She was a Canadian religious sister, who, under the inspiration of Saint Eugene de Mazenod and Bishop Bourget, founded the Sisters of the...
On this early Fall day of October the 6th, we fittingly celebrate Saint Bruno (+1101), teacher, bishop, contemplative, counsellor to Popes and, perhaps most pertinent to the history of Christendom, the founder of the...
On this fifth of October, we celebrate one of the newest of saints in the liturgical calendar, placed therein only a few years ago, with October 5th, the day she entered eternity, chosen as...
(This October 4th marks the 800th anniversary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi, one of the most well-known and beloved amongst the panoply of saints. Enjoy the reprise reflection...)
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A friend who works at a long-term care home, where many of the residents suffer from Alzheimer’s, sent me this webpage on a new technology. It’s developed by an engineer from Quebec (made in...
This memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin his theses to the church door at Wittenburg on...
On the first day of October we celebrate the Saint of the Little Way, Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873 - 1897), also known after the place of her...
The limits recently placed on the Latin Mass at the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Toronto bring to the fore the quasi-Hegelian tension between Benedict’s Summorum Pontificum and Francis’ Traditiones Custodes. By the former,...