John Paul Meenan

Not much is known about today's saint, who, by what accounts we have, died in 559 A.D. And those accounts date only from the 11th century. He was apparently converted under the reign of...

A recent reflection in First Things warns against sacralising politics (or politicizing the sacred), and rightly so. As the prophet Jeremiah warns: cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his strength, whose heart departs from the LORD...

Election - from the Latin 'eligere - to choose'. Choose life, that you and your children may live (Dt 30:19) The core battle of our time is over life and family, as warned Sister Lucia and...

Things are surreal, and getting more so by the minute - or so it goes. In the first minute or so of his interview with Elon Musk, Donald Trump describes the recent attempt to...

Exogenesis, by Peco Gaskovksi Ignatius Press, 2023 ISBN/UPC: 9781621646341 One of the most difficult things in writing a ‘fantasy’ – any story which is not based on this present world – is constructing a realistic and believable ‘other...

(A retrospect on the legalization of cannabis in Canada, now six (!) years ago. The stultifying and enervating effects of this drug may in some small part explain why so many Canadians went so...

This Marian commemoration dates back to very early in the Church's history. In fact, it is the first 'vision' of Our Lady. As the story has been handed down, Mary appeared to Saint James...

Saint Francis Borgia (1510 - 1572) was a true renaissance man, who lived two lives in one - first, as a married layman, then as a Jesuit priest, who is often described as the...