Assorted links

1. Missing mandate from Rome.

2. Received in the church via Skype.

3. Ed Vulliamy, cherishes his home in Tucson and believes this unique place will overcome last week’s shooting tragedy. Amy Silverman, managing editor of Phoenix New Times, says “it’s exactly isolation that defines this tragedy – that defines this state.”

4. Mary, once highly favored, no longer in top 100.

5. Cain says Jesus was “The Perfect Conservative.”