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.
Two glorious martyrs of the 'Reformation' are celebrated today: Saint Thomas More, husband, father, lawyer, sometime chancellor of England, was martyred in 1535 soon after his compatriot, Saint John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester and...
On this 21st day of June, we remember Saint Aloysius Gonzaga (+ 1591), a Jesuit scholastic - which is to say, a seminarian - who died at what we might consider the too-young age...
Saint Romuald (+June 19, 1025/27) was a tenth-century monk, founder of the strict Camaldolese Order, named after their primary benefactor, Maldoli, who, impressed by the saint's way of life, donated the land on which...
I was cycling through a city park about a month ago, quite a lovely one, with a small lake, and pavilions, in one of which I noticed a mother and daughter placing a number...
Not many Catholics today know of Germaine Cousin (+1601), which is likely how the saint would have liked it. Amare nesciri, as Saint Philip, her Italian near-contemporary, would have said. For Germaine lived an...
On the Saturday after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church celebrates the Immaculate Heart of His Mother, Mary, the one from whom He took his flesh – hence, their...
A blessed Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to all our readers, a feast which has its origins in the early Middle Ages, when a renewed emphasis upon Christ’s humanity dawned upon the...
In the Church universal, we celebrate the life of Saint Ephraim, often called the 'Syrian', who is also venerated amongst the Orthodox (on January 28th), and whose pre-Vatican II date was June 18th. Ephraim...