Noon Roundup - Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

• Damian Thompson: Holy Smoke >> Pope revealed to be Catholic, shock horror
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> The Ghost of Christmas Past (Joseph Bottum)
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> O Emmanuel (Seventh Antiphon)
• Standing on My Head >> Gregorian Chant
• The New Liturgical Movement >> The legal issue that the USCCB needs to face (this story is NOT simply going away!)
• The New Liturgical Movement >> Introit on Christmas: Puer natus
• The New Liturgical Movement >> New Translation of Durandus, On the Clergy and Their Vestments