First Links — 4.12.12

Port Huron, 50 Years Later: What Progress?
Naomi Schaefer Riley, The Chronicle of Higher Education

Social Teaching and the Paschal Mystery
Fr. Francis Belanger, O.P., Ordo Praedicatorum

Debating Death and Brain Death
Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture

Teenagers: Not the Real Issue in Out-of-Wedlock Births
Rachel Sheffield, The Foundry

On Liturgical Art’s Quality and Beauty
Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement

Next
YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE

The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist

Peter J. Leithart

It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…

The Possibility of Possibility

Midge Goldberg

"Might could” is a Southern expression meaning “maybe I could” or “I might be able to,” conveying…

The False Promise of No Contact

Noelle Mering

Around the time nineteen-year-old Alice began cutting ties with her family, she announced on social media that…