Morning Roundup - St. Laurence of Brindisi, Confessor & Doctor - Commem.: St. Praxedes - July 21st, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Reaching the Sleeping Soul Through Music
• Belief Blog (CNN) >> ISIS to Christians in Mosul: convert, pay or die
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith) >> Where is the humanity at the MH17 crash site?
• Catholic Stand (Howard Duncan) >> There Are Tiny Catholics Among Us
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Iraq Catholic Leader: Islamic State worse than Genghis Khan
• Crisis Magazine (R.J. Snell) >> The Problem with Bill Gates
• Crisis Magazine (Stephen Fitzpatrick) >> Hard Times by Charles Dickens
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Lawrence of Brindisi
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Thomas Merton on Humility
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Clement Dickie, O.P.) >> End of the Empire
• Dymphna's Road >> St. Francis was not a bird feeder
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Bp. Matano (D. Rochester) ends decades illicit practice of “lay preaching”
• Godzdogz (Matthew Jarvis OP) >> Third Sorrowful Mystery: The Crowning with Thorns
• I Want to See God (Patricia Patterson) >> From the palette of God….
• Latin Word of the Day >> principium: beginning
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Pope Francis Seems Serious about Rooting Out the Sex Abusers!
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> The Feast of Saint Praxedes
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> The Unstoppable Traditional Mass: Around the world with the TLM - Fully-traditional Ancient Chapel for the FSSP in Munich, Bavaria - Fully-traditional Brand New Chapel for the IBP in the Brazilian capital
• SANCTE PATER  (Vincenzo) >> No Mass said in Mosul for first time in 1,600 years, says Archbishop
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> NOSTALGIA FOR THE WAY WE HOPE TO BE--NOT!
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> 1984 + 30
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bruce Frohnen) >> Say it ain’t so, Stan!: A Female Thor
• Transalpine Redemptorists at Home >> Urgent Appeal
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Basic Steps To Improve Music At Your Parish — Part 6
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Devotion to the prayer of the Church
• Word on Fire Blog >> HHS, NFP, and the Ascetic Relationship