First Links — 8.6.12

The Prayers of a Poet
Micah Mattix, Wall Street Journal

On the Church’s “Year of Grace”
Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, Homiletic & Pastoral Review

Episcopal-to-Catholic Converts
Bob Faw, Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

A Pagan Prophesy
Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic

Things Fall Apart
Christopher White, National Catholic Register

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