First Links—5.19.15

Last Word In Deed: Baltimore Catholics Get to Work
Amanda Erickson, Commonweal

Reviving the Female Canon
Susan Price, The Atlantic

Prophesying to the Breath
Maryann Corbett, Verse Daily

Irish PM Says Country Must Seize Opportunity to Approve Gay Marriage
Padraic Halpin, Religion News Service

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