Morning Roundup - St. Nicholas, Bishop & Confessor - Missa 'Statuit' or Jesus Christ the High Priest - Missa 'Juravit Dóminus' - December 6th, 2012

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> The Real St. Nicholas – Not Fat and Not Very Jolly Either.
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> Saint Nicholas
• chantblog >> "The Sarum Compline for the Advent Season"
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> Rice: The Evil of Two Lessers  (Thomas Fleming)
• Creative Minority Report >> Dude. Rodent on Mars! I Knew It!
• Crisis Magazine >> A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens  (Sean Fitzpatrick)
• Crisis Magazine >> The Awkwardness of Advent  (Rev. George W. Rutler)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Consecration of the U.S. to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Power Gained, Argument Weakened for Same-Sex Marriage  (Matthew J. Franck )
• First Thoughts >> Disabilities Treaty Coming Back?  (Austin Ruse)
• Grace Before Meals (Fr. Leo) >> Dinner Discussion: Santa IS Real!
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Seeing the Cross in all things. Holy Souls Hermitage and the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Fisking Cardinal George Pell’s effectively excommunicating merely accused priests, regardless of their guilt or innocence. Saint Francis to the rescue.
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> 8 Things You Need to Know About the Immaculate Conception
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence 
• National Review Online (Mark Steyn) >> Dracula Stirs…
• New Liturgical Movement >> Sinterklaas: The Feast of St. Nicholas
• Pundit & Pundette >> Why Johnny can't learn
• Roma locuta est >> The Jarring Secular Santa
• RORATE CÆLI >> Modernism is ideological - Tradition is realistic, but must be lived in simplicity
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> Only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven (Matthew 7:21)
• The Catholic Thing >> The Strange Clericalism of Women’s Ordination
• The Chant Café >> First Recording of the Requiem of Ockeghem
• The Chant Café >> Two Recordings of St. Gall Notation
• The Liturgical Day (Jimmy Akin) >> Dec. 6, 2012
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 05: Thursday of the 1st Week of Advent
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> QUAERITUR: Winter Solstice Mass?
• Word On Fire Blog >> Spirituality: St. Nicholas, Santa and the Elf on the Shelf