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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We’re All One in Adam, Eve and Christ

I have to suppress a knowing smile (well, come to think of it, I don't suppress it at all) when I hear of science 'discovering' something that the Church has known all along.  Such...

Christus Natus Est, Gaudeamus!

A very merry, blessed and joyous Christmas to all our readers, which we hope is filled with God's grace and good cheer.  Someone sent me this morning these words from Scott Hahn, which are...

The Star Wars Franchise Gang Aft Awry

(Since a number of reviews of the latest Star Wars entry are making the rounds, including one rather odd one in First Things that seems to turn these outings into actual philosophically-deep musings, I...

Canisius, Cantius and Catechetics

In this last week of Advent, there are two saints, oft overlooked, celebrated in a muted way each year: Peter Canisius (1521 - 1597), a Dutch Jesuit who traversed thousands of miles across Europe...

Wherefore Romance?

Like the seemingly inextinguishable California wildfires, the aptly named 'Pervnado' continues its own incineration of the careers of various media and political types, all of them males, almost all of them white. Curiously, so...

Am I not your Mother?

We celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe today, a commemoration elevated to a feast on the eve of the Third Millennium by Pope John Paul II, who also declared  her patroness of all of ‘America’,...

The Pope of the Vulgate

Today we celebrate Pope Damasus, who in his office in the Chair of Peter from 366  to 384, greatly influenced the history of the Church:  It was he who presided over the Synod of...

The Pope and the Acta

What are we to say about Pope Francis placing into the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (the official compilation of Magisterial texts) the interpretation of the Argentinian bishops of Amoris Laetitia, that divorced and remarried Catholics...

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