Ryan Sayre Patrico

Huh. I guess the interview matters more than I thought: Miss California says candor cost her the crown in Sunday’s Miss USA competition. Carrie Prejean, 21, probably knew she was in trouble when she acknowledged her opposition to same-sex marriages in response to a question from openly gay . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week, the National Institutes of Health announced its draft funding rules for embryonic stem cell research. Yuval Levin explains : On their face, the new NIH rules are essentially the Clinton administration guidelines, which were published in 2000 though never actually put into effect. They . . . . Continue Reading »

I must admit that I, like Michael , enjoyed seeing Susan Boyle win over the audience and the judges last week. I’m a sucker for this kind of thing, and I just think she has a wonderful voice. But it’s when a story receives such universal and unrestrained praise that another side of me . . . . Continue Reading »

You’re right , Stefan, that is a lovely story . Here , on the other hand, is a story that is anything but lovely: A wealthy British couple who both had terminal cancer have committed suicide together at the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland. Peter and Penny Duff, from Bath, are the first Britons . . . . Continue Reading »

The move comes only a day after Governor Paterson sat in the front row at Archbishop Dolan’s installation mass. In his sermon, Dolan said that “not only the Resurrection but the cross , the dying, of Christ goes on . . . as the Church is ridiculed for her teaching on the sanctity of . . . . Continue Reading »

Brian Boyd at The American Scholar fawns over Darwinian natural selection and its ability to create purpose in the universe: Does evolution by natural selection rob life of purpose, as so many have feared? The answer is no. On the contrary, Charles Darwin has made it possible to understand how . . . . Continue Reading »

From yesterday’s installation mass of New York’s Archbishop Timothy Dolan: My brother priests: you are the apple of my eye! You mean everything to me. Without you, I can do nothing. In you I still see St. Isaac Joques, Venerable Felix Varela, Issac Hecker, Fighting Father Duffy, Fulton . . . . Continue Reading »

If this doesn’t give you something to talk about at the water cooler today, I don’t know what will: A Kenyan man bit a python which wrapped him in its coils and dragged him up a tree during a fierce three-hour struggle, police have told the BBC. The serpent seized farm worker Ben . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember the CatholicVote.org ad from January that highlighted President Obama’s incredible story and ended with the tagline “Life: Imagine the Potential”? Well, now a German ad campaign is playing on the same theme but for an entirely different purpose. A new series of condom ads . . . . Continue Reading »

Oppose abortion or same-sex marriage? The Homeland Security Department thinks you could be a threat to national security on par with white supremacists: According to a Homeland Security Report distributed to law enforcement organizations, abortion opponents are as great a threat to national . . . . Continue Reading »