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Pope Francis walked the walk last weekend, when he followed through on his promise to make the Vatican more gay-friendly – or at least less gay-nasty – by honoring a sixteen-year-old gay American.
Jack Ankara is an all “A” student at a public high school in Crownsville, Maryland, where half the student body drops out before graduation. Last Saturday, he was presented with the Vatican’s International Giuseppe Sciacca Award, named for an Italian student of architecture, who died at the age twenty-six. Jack won the award for inventing a test that detects pancreatic cancer, after a friend of his family’s died from the disease.
After Jack developed a concept, using carbon nanotubes to identify proteins, he solicited over 200 university professors and medical researchers to help research and test his idea. He finally found Dr. Anirban Maitra at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who offered to help. There was just one catch, Jack had to be listed as a “volunteer” on the project, so as not to violate child labor laws.
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