Ryan Sayre Patrico

If you happened to miss Raymond Arroyo’s tribute to Father Neuhaus last friday on EWTN’s “The World Over,” the video has been posted online. George Weigel, Michael Novak, and Joseph Bottum spend the hour reminiscing about Father’s amazing life and the legacy he has . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Book Forum , Wendy Lesser has written a fascinating review of Brad Gooch’s new biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor : Gooch clearly loves O’Connor, but they are just as clearly a bad match (as are so many of the pairings—religious, marital, filial, . . . . Continue Reading »

In his latest book, The Same Man: George Orwell & Evelyn Waugh in Love and War , David Lebedoff argues that George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh held surprisingly similar—identical, even—worldviews. The bold claim that a strident atheist and a devout Catholic are, when boiled down, really . . . . Continue Reading »

This week, the University of Notre Dame is mourning the loss of Rabbi Michael A. Singer, a beloved teacher, theologian, and leader in Catholic-Jewish relations. He passed away Saturday after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. From the chair of the Notre Dame theology department, John Cavadini: . . . . Continue Reading »

In the January issue of First Things , we are proud to have Joseph Bottum and Fr. Richard John Neuhaus reflect on the current state of abortion politics in America. In “Abortion after Obama,” Bottum takes a hard look at the challenges facing the pro-life movement with the coming of the . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve just finished uploading another batch of photographs of Fr. Neuhaus onto the website. They are some of his—and our—personal favorites. . . . . Continue Reading »

No, Thanks. That’s one sector of the economy I wouldn’t mind seeing go under. . . . . Continue Reading »

Big Science’s latest attempt to rule out the will. . . . . Continue Reading »

Stephen Greenspan is a psychologist who specializes in gullibility at the University of Connecticut, wrote an article this week using his expertise to understand why so many people—himself included—fell for Bernie Madoff’s chicanery. After a fascinating historical and psychological . . . . Continue Reading »

Rumors are flying this afternoon that CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta will be named Surgeon General under the upcoming Obama administration. In a recent news report for CNN, Dr. Gupta openly criticized the expansion of conscience clauses for health care workers by the . . . . Continue Reading »