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.
The Holy Father has just completed his one-day pilgrimage to the Holy House of Loreto. As tradition has it – not of divine faith, but small-t ‘tradition’ – this is the original house of...
A blessed solemnity of the Annunciation, which commemorates
the central feast of the Incarnation – the Word made flesh - the conception of
the Son of God in the womb of the Blessed Virgin, freely chosen by...
The rector of Saint Joseph’s Oratory, Father Claude Grou, was attacked during Mass the other day, as a ‘tall, thin man in a white hat’ – which sounds like something out of a mystery...
The most apt adjective to describe the Liberal ‘budget’ – and I use that term advisedly - is meretricious, a term that means doing something superficially attractive, but devoid of real substance. Its etymology...
Already it has begun, with the bodies of the Christchurch victims not yet buried, and the emotional calls for condemnation even of the very hints of ‘Islamophobia’. Every one of our own political leaders...
A blessed and joyous solemnity of Saint Joseph to one and all!
The silent saint from the Gospel, husband of the Virgin Mary, and foster father (protector) of the Christ, was proclaimed the patron of...
‘Tis the ides of March, when one is meant to beware, for it marks the assassination of Julius Caesar, a famous enough event in itself, which changed Roman, and therefore world, history, made more...