Ryan Sayre Patrico

From today’s Independent : Gayle Williams worked with the poorest and most unfortunate of the children in Afghanistan, young boys and girls who had lost limbs to landmines and bombs. She was dedicated to her task of teaching them the basic skills needed to survive in a harsh and violent land. . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s a question for the logicians out there: How do you reconcile this : Climate change is happening faster than previously predicted according to a new World Wildlife Fund report. Bringing together some of the most recent scientific reports and data, “Climate change: faster, . . . . Continue Reading »

During an interview conducted in April 2007 but published in the Wilmington News-Journal for the first time yesterday, Joe Biden was asked how he reconciles his Catholic faith with his position on Roe v. Wade : It’s very difficult. I was raised as a Catholic, I’m a practicing Catholic, . . . . Continue Reading »

From today’s Boston Globe : The issue of stem cell research, while not at the forefront of this year’s presidential campaign, has surfaced in political advertisements and again during Wednesday’s presidential debate—casting a potentially revolutionary field of scientific . . . . Continue Reading »

The relationship between technology and intelligence has been getting a lot of press lately. Back in August, Nathaniel Peters wrote about an article in The Atlantic which asked if Google is making us stupid. In the latest issue of First Things , Sally Thomas explains how, due to the way in which . . . . Continue Reading »

University of British Columbia archeologists have discovered an ancient tomb inside a Sicilian house dating from the sixth century. The find is unusual not only because the burial took place inside of a house instead of a public space, but also because the burial ceremony appears to have had an . . . . Continue Reading »

For the 1988 Erasmus Lecture, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger gave a speech entitled “Biblical Interpretation in Crisis,” in which he argued that “the exegete must realize that he does not stand in some neutral area, above or outside history and the Church.” Addressing the synod . . . . Continue Reading »

It turns out that medieval church windows made for the glory of God were also good for your health : The glaziers who created gold-painted stained glass windows for medieval churches in Europe inadvertently developed a solar-powered nanotech air-purification system. According to Zhu Huai Yong, an . . . . Continue Reading »

A new study from the British Medical Journal has found that one in four terminally ill patients in Oregon who opt for physician-assisted suicide suffer from clinical depression: Oregon’s physician-assisted suicide law may not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with . . . . Continue Reading »

The LA Times today gives one more reason why embryonic stem-cell research should become unnecessary: Scientists have converted cells from human testes into stem cells that grew into muscle, nerve cells and other kinds of tissue, according to a study published Wednesday in the online edition of . . . . Continue Reading »