Ryan Sayre Patrico

Pope Benedict announced today that he has signed his latest encyclical, Caritas in veritate . The document will “outline the goals and values that the faithful must defend to ensure solidarity among all peoples.” The new archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, was also on hand to receive . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, Public Discourse features an article by First Things board member David Novak titled “Why We Should Oppose Same-Sex Marriage”: By calling attention to the traditional origins and character of marriage, I am not arguing from or even for the authority of tradition. Instead, I am . . . . Continue Reading »

“Stop telling us what to do.” . . . . Continue Reading »

Ah, the glories of sexual liberation: On television, the Italian penchant for adorning soundstages with skimpily clad, surgically enhanced showgirls has radically metastasized, spilling over from game shows to all forms of entertainment, including the nightly news . . . . The notion of women as . . . . Continue Reading »

Or, instead of poets , we could just stick with The Onion . . . . . Continue Reading »

Hire more poets : Last week, Israel’s oldest newspaper, Haaretz , took a one-off chance, temporarily replacing its workaday reporters with 31 of the country’s leading poets and authors. The writers, as writers do, ran amok. They filed epic front-page news reports on daily life in the . . . . Continue Reading »

to practice chastity . Rock stars are getting in on the act as well. . . . . Continue Reading »

You’re right , Wesley. “Wrongful birth” lawsuits truly are pernicious. Suing because a baby was not aborted is a sick perversion of justice. But sadly, reproductive technology is making this kind of injustice an everyday occurence: A mother desperate to have a second child has . . . . Continue Reading »

Not sure how I missed this. Last month, the Boston Globe profiled several women in the archdiocese of Boston who have recently responded to one of the church’s oldest and perhaps most obscure vocations: consecrated virginity . . . . . Continue Reading »

Here’s another : (via John Schwenkler ) . . . . Continue Reading »