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.
Canada has likely reached the point of no return, like a 12-0 hockey game in the final minutes of the third period, with the goalie pulled. I donât play the game â soccer is...
It's election day here in Canada, even if we don't have much of a choice. We have Mark Carney, about whom Scott Ventureyra wrote a masterful critique, warning his fellow Canadians about what the...
Todayâs commemoration of saints are all connected with the persecution The first group suffered under the Stoic emperor Marcus Aurelius in the mid-2nd century, particularly as it raged in the then-Roman city of Lyons...
Over at OnePeterFive, editor T.S. Flanders urges us all to charity and not to 'excommunicate' each other (perhaps we might say 'shun'). It's a worthy endeavour, but therein he makes the following claim:
in year...
Margaret of Castello (+1287 - 1320) is the patroness of the unborn, the disabled, the blind, for she herself was 'disabled', even if she may never have thought of herself that way â she...
Efficiency is not in itself a virtue. It may sometimes help towards virtue, but in much of life, it is not efficiency that is called for, but munificence, profusion and prodigality.
In its strict etymology,...
There are two saints commemorated on this April 12th. The first is Saint Sabbas the Goth (+372), a sort of âvillage foolâ, but the wisest of fools, a fool for Christ. He lived in...
Why would Donald Trump say the following after meeting with our current-and-hopefully-temporary Prime Minister, Mark Carney:
It was an extremely productive call, we agree on many things, and will be meeting immediately after Canadaâs upcoming...