Ryan Sayre Patrico

You may have already heard about golfer J.P. Hayes, whose honesty last week wound up costing him a shot on the PGA tour: Hayes shot a 74 Wednesday and a 71 on Thursday, putting him in good shape to finish in the top 20 and advance to the final qualifying stage in December. But on Thursday night in . . . . Continue Reading »

The Times of London has a troubling story today on Hindu extremists in the Indian province of Orissa who are offering rewards to those who kill Christians: Extremist Hindu groups offered money, food, and alcohol to mobs to kill Christians and destroy their homes, according to Christian aid workers . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s some cool news for all the photo lovers out there. Life Magazine and Google have announced that the internet company plans to scan and place all of the 10 million images in Life ‘s archives online and make them available for free. Two million images from the archive, some dating . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, the BBC has some good news to report in the field of adult stem-cell research. A woman in Spain has successfully received a new windpipe after doctors coated the donated trachea with cells made from the patient’s own body: Five months on, the patient, thirty-year-old mother-of-two . . . . Continue Reading »

Judith Graham at the Chicago Tribune reports : Babies born to couples who rely on medical technology to become pregnant have much higher rates of certain birth defects, according to a study published online Monday in the journal [ Obstetrics & Gynecology ]. The report from the federal Centers . . . . Continue Reading »

Lest anyone think that the nuclear family is some sort of recent, artificial construct, ScienceDaily reports : The earliest evidence of a nuclear family, dating back to the Stone Age, has been uncovered by an international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Bristol. The . . . . Continue Reading »

Liz Carr, a disabled broadcaster for the BBC, has penned a heart-wrenching open letter to Noel Martin, a British man paralyzed after being attacked by neo-Nazis who wants to travel to Switzerland to commit suicide. A few excerpts: As for not being able to touch the world around you — from an . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s what Archbishop Marx of Munich said to the Spiegel last month when he sat down to talk about the financial crisis, the future of capitalism, and Marxism. The whole interview is worth a read, but here are a few passages, roughly translated by yours truly: We have to ask the simple . . . . Continue Reading »

David G. Bonagura, Jr. of the University Bookman has written a nice review of two recent books by Aidan Nichols and Tracey Rowland that trace the theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The depth of Ratzinger’s thought . . . requires careful and measured analysis, more so now due to his elevation to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Middle East Media Research Institute , MEMRI, issued a press release earlier this week that quotes the columnist ‘Abd Al-Nasser Al-Najjar writing for the Palestinian daily Al-Ayyam . The journalist argues that the Christian culture in Palestine needs to be preserved for the sake of . . . . Continue Reading »