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 memorial of the Guardian Angels goes back to the year 1500, the very dawn of the Protestant ‘Reformation’, seventeen years before Luther would pin his theses to the church door at Wittenburg; as...
I enjoy the serendipity of providence when the liturgical readings match up unwittingly with the day, as we celebrate Ste. Therese of Lisieux, more accurately, of the Holy Face and the Child Jesus, who...
Be wary in signing deal with atheistic Communists, Confucius might have said, had he lived another millennia or so, only to see his nation descend into the bathos of Marxist ideology. I hope, against...
One knows not what to say at times, as events spiral faster than one’s capacity to comment on them; even one’s reflection is superseded: Oh, you may reach a tentative conclusion, then someone says...
A brief note on this Sunday, on which I normally do not write, but make the occasional exception: For today is the 50th anniversary of the death of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, more commonly...
When I was a child, I thought like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things…
These words of Saint Paul haunt me, for I still enjoy a number of...
Nero was given to fiddling while Rome burned, while we see what seems like a lot of muddling, as the Church faces perhaps her greatest existential crisis, and our own nation of Canada could...
To be hidden in God, known only by Him is a great treasure, which today’s saint, the Franciscan Joseph of Cupertino, lived to the full. Amare nesciri, Saint Philip Neri would say, ‘love to be...