John Paul Meenan

(July 1st is the traditional feast of Saint Junipero Serra, the great missionary founder of California, which, believe it or not, was once fully and vibrantly Catholic, as the link to the biography of...

The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church - Tertullian (+240 A.D.) The first, or proto-, martyrs of the Church of Rome commemorate the untold number of Christians put to death under the...

A blessed solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul! They were comites, as they say in Latin, companions in life, and in death, both martyred under the diabolical tyrant Nero sometime between 64 and 68 Anno...

The subversive doctrines of atheistic communism and socialism have infected nations, institutions, media, education, and souls, throughout the world. Make no mistake, as Pius XI declared in Divini Redemptoris (1937) that communism and socialism...

Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, even if it be muted this year due to the Sacred Heart - signified in one of the most famous ‘icons’ of the...

Ecclesia semper reformanda est (attributed to Saint Augustine) History doesn't repeat itself...it merely rhymes (some say Mark Twain, but definitely Theodor Reik) In light of the the looming episcopal consecrations of the SSPX, in light of the recent...

We usually try to commemorate the saints in the current, public liturgical calendar, but now and again, we will mention those more hidden, even if they have a long and venerable history of being...

We celebrate the birthdays of three ‘saints’ in our liturgical calendar: Christ Himself, the Son of God, of course, on Christmas Day; His Mother, the Virgin Mary, on September 8th; and, today, Saint John,...