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.
(This article recently appeared in Catholic World Report and may serve as a good addendum to Father Callam's exhortation for the Church to canonize more married people. Well, what of the singles, we may...
(A re-post of this earlier article in July, with a comment at the end that all readers should peruse, and follow the link...the plot doth thickeneth)
Father Michel Rodrigue is a Quebecois priest, currently incardinated...
This first day of September marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II, with Germany's invasion of Poland, one week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact between Germany and Russia...
Saint Pius X (+1914), born Guiseppe Sarto, was a peasant, he was the first such in centuries, the custom being that popes were chosen from the 'nobility' - it is a true rags to...
The Gong Show - from which we derive the term 'a gong show', sometimes morphed into a more scatological form, which may apply more aptly here - was a campy variety program that ran...
Mask Mania, militaristically mandated, continues, almost unabated, the talisman of the age, the sign of do-gooder-ism - no, not a pro-life t-shirt, or even any of those AIDS and other causes-ribbons that were the...
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II - it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what those who want to...
The historian Roberto Mattei penned an article recently for LifeSiteNews, in which he argues that if sections of the ecumenical Council of Constance (1414-15) could be declared null and void –then so could the...