Morning Roundup - Feria of Lent - Thursday of the Third Week in Lent - Missa 'Salus Populi' - March 31st, 2011

• A Trail of Flowers >> The language of friendship
• ADW Blog >> More Data on the Lost Generations and the Urgent Task for the Church (Msgr. Pope)
• CatholicVote.Org >> “Same-Sex Marriage: Why Not?” (Tom Crowe)
• Creative Minority Report >> Planned Parenthood: "We're Mostly a Surgical Facility"
• Edward Feser >> Catholicism, conservatism, and capital punishment
• First Things >> One Thousand Five-Hundred or So Uninformed Words on U.S. Immigration Policy (Russell E. Saltzman)
• First Thoughts >> Arizona and the War of Baby Girls (Joe Carter)
• InsideCatholic >> A Spoonful of Splenda (John Zmirak)
• Insight Scoop >> Anne Rice likens Catholic Church to the Mafia; says Church is "one of the biggest criminal organizations in the world"
• JimmyAkin.Org >> When You *Don't* Have to Say Something in Confession
• Liturgia Latina >> Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Thursday, Lent III: "the Kingdom of God has come upon you"
• New Liturgical Movement >> Video of the Holy Father's Ordination to the Priesthood
• Roman Catholic Vocations >> Vocations Video from the Norbertines
• Te Deum laudamus >> Today's Office of Readings: On Prayer (Tertullian)
• The Catholic Thing >> Fifteen Criteria of Authentic Catholic Thought (Bevil Bramwell, OMI)
• The Chant Café >> Laetare Vespers, Schola Cantorum of St. Matthew's (Washington, DC on April 3rd)
• The Spiritual Exercises >> XVIII. The Finding in the Temple
• Transalpine Redemptorists at home >> The Mid-Lent Station.
• VIS News >> BENEDICT XVI'S PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR APRIL
• WDTPRS >> The face of homosexual anti-Catholicism to come
• WDTPRS >> LENTCAzT 23: Thursday of the 3rd Week of Lent
• WDTPRS >> On the new, corrected translation. Wherein Fr. Z rants and reacts.
• Words of Fire >> Commentary: Population Time Bomb