First Links — 6.22.12

Revisiting the Anointing of the Sick: Some Problems Today
Fr. Mark A. Pilon,  Homiletic & Pastoral Review

In the Purgatorial Emporium
Bradley J. Birzer,  Imaginative Conservative

The Seen and Unseen in Our Social Liberation
Theodore Dalrymple,  Liberty Law Site

Religious Liberty is Not Optional
Archbishop William E. Lori,  Washington Post

Of Platonic Ignorance and Anti-Vaccine Crusades
Massimo Pigliucci,  Rationally Speaking

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