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

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