First Links — 4.29.13

Infinite Progress
Jathan Sadowski, L. A. Review of Books

The Post-Welfare State Family
Mary Eberstadt, Weekly Standard

The Eighty-Year Reform of the Curia
Sandro Magister, Aleteia

The Mixed Blessings of Interfaith Marriage
Naomi Schaefer Riley & Neal Conan, NPR

A Father’s Love
Tullian Tchividjian, Gospel Coalition

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