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.
Patrick Brown, the erstwhile leader of the provincial 'Conservative' party, and I use those square quotes advisedly, has decreed that there are to be no 'social conservative' raised at the upcoming convention. Now, that...
A grace-filled hundredth anniversary of the final apparition at Fatima, as Our Lady appeared for last time to the three seers on this day in October, 1917, during some of the worst days of...
The Second Vatican Council opened on this day in 1962, and ran until 1965, producing sixteen documents, four of them 'constitutions', which have profoundly shaped the Church in the modern world (the title of...
Today is the memorial of the Holy Rosary, a feast instituted by Pope Saint Pius V in commemoration of the Christian naval fleet in the victory at Lepanto on this day in 1571, vastly...
Something is definitely odd about the gunman and the shooting massacre in Vegas:Ā A 64 year-old multi-millionaire accountant with no military training, no record, apparently a gambling addict, holed up in a hotel room...
A gunman in Las Vegas has murdered over fifty people, and seriously injured many more, in an hour long shooting rampage, apparently using a high-powered, high-calibre machine gun, perched 32 storys above the ground...
The feast of the Archangels, formerly known, and in some circles still is, as the feast of Michaelmas, after the one who is ālike Godā, celebrates those spiritual beings who stand mid-way between Man...
Today is the feast of Saint Lorenzo Ruiz (+1637) and his companion martyrs, put to death by the anti-Catholic shogunate in Japan, and who are now patrons of the Philippines.Ā They were tortured in...