Morning - Seventh Day within the Octave of Christmas - December 31st, 2009

• Anna Arco's Diary >> Jokes (groan is the operative word... ;-o] "Happy Christmas" back at you!)
• A Priest Life >> The Antichrist's Deception: Secular messianism
• ADW Blog >> Faith Has to Become Flesh
• A Trail of Flowers >> The Gift
• Creative Minority Report >> NARAL'S Hall of Fame (can one image that there IS such a thing?)
• Creative Minority Report >> PBS on Religion & Ethics. I Am Serious.
• Domine da mihi hanc aquam >> Stories aren't enough!
• Insight Scoop >> "Avatar": An "unapologetically religious" movie
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas: "Children, it is the last hour"
• SECRET HARBOR >> He's captured me, forever I'm in chains
• The Anchoress >> 2010 Predictions? (I predict that I will be writing "2009" on checks until February...)
• The Catholic Thing >> Te Deum Laudamus (Fr. James V. Schall, S.J.)
• WDTPRS >> From First Things and Forum Letter: “Temple prostitution: a modest proposal”