John Paul Meenan

On this 29th of May in 1886, John Pemberton, a pharmacist, placed the first advertisement for a new drink he had invented, in the Atlanta Journal. Originally called Pemberton French Wine Coca, he took...

(The saint today get muted, due to the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, on the Monday after Pentecost, in the Novus Ordo. Still, it's good to remind ourselves yearly of the great...

I’ve been attending the March for Life here in Ottawa, Canada since its inception in the late nineties – they mentioned that this last one on May 9th was the 27th, which would mean...

Technology in itself is neither good nor bad, but some technology tends more to the bad or the good. There are some theoretically good uses of, say, thermonuclear bombs - see the final scene...

I had trouble at first believing it, but I just checked, and it's true: the English translations of Pope Saint John Paul II's Wednesday audiences have been deleted from the Vatican website: https://twitter.com/protectthefaith/status/1783527425135038782?s=42&t=83OSIayTnuI3BEvKR4ry8w This is rather...

It seems slow - walking, that is - and, to our modern modes of transport, it is. Bikes can move at about 20 miles per hour; cars, 60; airplanes, 400 or more. Yet, as Nick...

As readers may know, Scotland is the land of my birth and early upbringing, and I have been back a number of times to the auld sod. The brogue is still somewhat natural to...

This April 1st is the Monday of Easter Octave - and a continued blessed one to all. Christus resurrexit vere, alleluia! But in the secular world All Fools' Day, fitting for Prime Minister Trudeau's...