Ryan Sayre Patrico

Happiness really is contagious! . . . . Continue Reading »

On Wednesday, Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Fransisco issued his first extensive statement on the passage of Proposition 8 in California: Some would say that, in light of the separation of church and state, churches should remain silent about any political matter. However, religious . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s what a new government report has found this week: The number of abortions carried out in Spain has more than doubled in the ten years to 2007, the government said Tuesday. In 1998, a total of 53,847 abortions were performed, compared with 112,138 last year, the health ministry said. It . . . . Continue Reading »

Yesterday, I mentioned how rising tuition costs are making it more and more difficult for lower- and middle-class families to afford college. Today, the Wall Street Journal points out that increased tuition won’t be the only thing keeping students from higher education. The current economic . . . . Continue Reading »

Troubling news today from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education about the rising the cost of college tuition and the increasing percentage of Americans who are unable to afford it: Over all, the report found, published college tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Times of London carries today the remarkable story of a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières who saved the life of a young boy in war-torn Congo by performing a complicated operation he had to learn on the spot via text message: The boy said that he had felt a heavy blast . . . . Continue Reading »

The six Jews killed in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India last week were buried today in Israel: Amid heart-rending scenes, thousands of tearful Israeli mourners on Tuesday bid an emotional farewell to the six Jews killed in the Mumbai terror attacks, including the parents of the two-year-old . . . . Continue Reading »

The cold and flu season has officially begun , as many of us—myself included—know all too well. If the sniffles have you down and you’re looking for a place to direct your frustrations, a new study published in the Journal of General Virology suggests that much of the blame can be . . . . Continue Reading »

Francis Cardinal Stafford, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary in Rome, delivered a lecture on November 17 at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C. Entitled “Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II: ‘Being True with Body and Soul,’” the . . . . Continue Reading »

Or so the history of children’s literature is usually told. That history, however, is wrong. J.K. Rowling’s success doesn’t just give us a recent series to add as an incidental to the received canon. It also gives us a chance to rewrite the entire list of classic children’s . . . . Continue Reading »