First Links – 10.15.14

Having Patience for the Sausage-Making Synod
Fr. Robert Barron, Word on Fire

The Long Way to Liberty
Yuval Levin, National Review

The Shallow Nihilism of John Gray
Anthony McCarthy, Spiked

New $25,000 Prize for Catholic Literary Arts
Ron Charles, The Washington Post

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