First Links — 8.20.12

Restore the Three-Hour Eucharistic Fast for Catholics?
Joseph Shaw, Rorate Caeli

Ten Years at a Crisis Pregnancy Center
Eve Tushnet, Weekly Standard

Religion, Science, and Apocalyptic Thinking
Matt Ridley, Wired

Gnostics for Religious Freedom
Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum

Patriarch Kirill in Poland
Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe

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