John Paul Meenan

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.
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Reading the Church Fathers: A Review

As I was reading Reading the Church Fathers: A History of the Early Church and the Development of Doctrine, a brand new magnum opus by scholar James L. Papandrea, I wondered whether the author...

Saint Boniface and ‘Ordinary’ Time

We missed the feast of Saint Boniface this year, as it was trumped by the far greater feast of Pentecost - the second most solemn day in the Church's calendar, after Easter. But a...

Pelosi, Abortion and the Purpose of Law

As might have been expected, Nancy Pelosi, in response to her Archbishop’s forbidding her from Communion until she repent, remains defiant in her support for legalized abortion. She has gone on the offensive, but...

Courage, Uvalde and Taking the Hit

Aristotle says that virtue is found in the mean between two extremes, but this does not mean the middle. Rather, it is the balance, often weighted to one side. Thus, generosity is a mean...

Romano Guardini’s ‘The End of the Modern World’

The End of the Modern World, a 1956 book by Italian-German priest and theologian, Romano Guardini, is not an easy or facile read. That is not to say that Father Guardini does not write...

Massacres and the Evil One

How are we to respond to the recent massacres? The supermarket shooting just last week, and then the horrific killing of children as they sat in their classroom. The headlines evince any number of...

Antichrist, Apocalypse and Abortion

Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour. So writes Saint John in...

Wherefore Art Thou, Modesty?

(Anna Kalinowska over at OnePeterFive has an intriguing take on modesty and dress, placing the virtue of modesty as on the pinnacle of three pillars: of truth, of goodness and of beauty. We should...

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