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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Saint Isidore the Farmer and Rerum Novarum

Saint Isidore, or, in his native Spanish, Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, was named after the other Saint Isidore, the bishop of Seville (whom we celebrated back on April 4th). This saint, known to...

The Good Choice of Matthias

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some have greatness thrust upon them  So wrote the Bard in his 1602 play the Twelfth Night, and 'tis fitting as a theme for the one who was...

Bad Choices: Trudeau’s 1969 Omnibus Bill

A good choice was made with Saint Matthias, in accordance with God's holy will, and we may rejoice accordingly on this feast of the Apostle. But the good in this vale of tears always goes...

Vaya con Dios, California!

I write these few words in LAX, on this feast of Our Lady of Fatima, while awaiting to board my flight back home, after a whirlwind visit to Southern California. I last wrote of...

Our Lady of Fatima

The revelations, prophecies and secrets of Our Lady of Fatima have loomed large in the minds and heart of Catholics in the twentieth century, and indeed many others across the world. They have taken...

Nereus, Achilleus and Pancras: Finding Our Way to Heaven

Today we commemorate the early martyrs Nereus and Achilleus, soldiers, officers of the court, and converts to the Faith, likely put to death under Emperor Domitian in the late 1st century. (Other sources claim...

Mothers’ Day

A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers' Day, which became widespread when President Woodrow Wilson – leaving aside his imprudent ‘Fourteen...

Living Water in a Dry Land

If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, 'Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38) Then the angel...

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