John Paul Meenan, Editor

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 God of Abraham, Sodom and Canada

Abraham’s dialogue with God in yesterday’s Sunday reading still speaks to us four millennia onwards. Indeed, the principle is timeless, that God’s justice – the natural recompense for sin – is not only tempered...

Canada’s Dominion Day

A blessed Dominion Day to all our readers, on which we celebrate the official founding of ā€˜Canada’ as a (mostly) independent part of the British Commonwealth since the signing into effect of such in...

The Persistence of China’s Underground Church

On this solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul – and a blessed one to all our readers - it is good to know that there are still principles for which the Church is willing...

Cool Heads and Heat Waves

We should all feel some empathy at the drowning of the father and his 23-month daughter in the Rio Grande. I have not for one seen the photograph of them face down in the...

Saint Cyril and Our Lady

Today is the traditional feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, signified in one of the most famous ā€˜icons’ of the Virgin Mother, which, by tradition – legend, some might say – goes back...

Hunchbacks and Hate Crimes

Disturbing, and all-too ironic, that younger humans have ā€˜horns’ growing out of the back of their skulls, to compensate for bent necks hunching over phones: New research in biomechanics suggests that young people are developing...

Lines in the Sand

I’m glad to read this morning that there are still limits to our societal insanity, with the intended forced abortion of a Nigerian woman in Britain with ā€˜learning disabilities’ now overturned by an appeal...

Of Catholic in Name and Coerced Abortion

The tide may be turning, just a little, on the education front, as Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson stripped a Catholic school of its Catholic title – as is his prerogative and duty in Canon...

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