First Links — 4.24.13

The State Funerals of Christendom
Mark Tooley, American Spectator

Church as New Mode of Consciousness
Just Thomism

Prodigals and Preachers
Eve Tushnet, Acculturated

Jane Austen, Game Theorist
Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times

Doctors Advance John Paul II Sainthood
Andrea Tornielli, Vatican Insider

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