First Links — 4.8.14

Kenneth Miller’s Laetare Medal
Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend

Against Gratitude
Jessica Griffith, Good Letters

Wrongdoing Only Needs “Working With”
Theodore Dalrymple, Salisbury Review

A Love of Ruins
Evelyn Toynton, Prospect

POTUS and Pope
George Weigel, National Review

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