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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The True Santa Claus

In these early days of Advent, we celebrate one of the most popular of saints, of whom we actually don't know all that much. That he was born in Myra - now in Turkey...

The End of the World As We Know It? Well, Not Yet –

A faithful reader mentioned that one or two of my columns have been a bit dire of late, but one must not wonder, for the times lend themselves to such reflections. The point, however,...

Labouré’s Labour of Love, and Kenney’s Legal Limits

Although not in the universal calendar, today is the memorial of Saint Catherine Labouré , the visionary of the Miraculous Medal, mentioned yesterday. Besides Our Lady appearing to her, with the mission to have...

McCarrick Report Reductio ad Absurdam

I don't think I am ever going to read the McCarrick report - at 460 or so pages, with copious footnotes, it is akin to Augustine's City of God, but a lot less edifying...

Remembering Those Who Came Before Us

(I wrote this upon visiting my grandparents' graves in Scotland two years ago, but seems a propos for this time as we especially remember our dead, and speed them into that heavenly kingdom...Editor) If for...

All Saints’, Real Conversion Therapy and Hope Amidst the Ruins

This is the eve of All Saints' known affectionately in our era as 'Halloween', even if many may not knows the derivative of this now-mostly-pagan holiday, with ghouls and ghosts and bloodied zombies. The...

Terror in France, Then and Now

(It is difficult to believe that I wrote this piece five years ago, after a terrorist bomb attack in France at a soccer stadium, with at least one hundred killed. The slaughter of three...

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