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.
Saint Bernardine of Siena (+1444) was a fiery, implacable Franciscan friar, whose apostolic work was during the tumultuous first half of the 15th century, when immorality was rife, and the Church had stumbled into...
Pope Saint John I (470-526) was a native of Tuscany, a Deacon for years, helping govern the Church in her temporal affairs and distribution of aid - he may have been the 'Deacon John'...
There are two Americas, a situation not unlike circa 1860. Back then, there were those for slavery, and those against, and in 2019, there are those for abortion, and those against, or those for...
In a tragic parody of Mosesâ exhortation to choose the way of life and the way of death, a Malaysian girl, standing atop a tall building, asked for a poll from her Instagram followers...
Today commemorates Saint Brendan (+577) the sixth century Irish monk, the 'Navigator', whose main claim to fame - besides his holiness of life - is a seven year trans-Atlantic voyage in a boat made...
If youâd like a view into the speciousness and illogicality of the pro-abortion argument, you could do worse than peruse this Wired piece, on the objections to the âfetal heartbeatâ bills which are being...
In today Office of Readings for the feast of Saint Matthias, Saint John Chrysostom writes 'neque dixerunt: Elige, sed ostende electum - quem elegeris, inquit', that is, the Apostles were not told to choose...