Evening Roundup - 5th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemoration: St. Thomas Becket, Martyr - December 29th, 2011

• Accepting Abundance >> Burial if Wanted, Trash if Not
• Bonfire of the Vanities >> The 'operatic farce' of the NCR
• CatholicVote.org >> The most revolutionary idea in history: God Is Love. (Tom Crowe)
• Courageous Priest >> Stop the Superficial Glitter and Commercialism
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! >> What truth will Christ reveal for you?
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> On Hitchens, Havel, and Kim—and Totalitarianism
• New Liturgical Movement >> Don Giuseppe Vallauri: The Silent Prayers of the Roman Liturgy
• New Liturgical Movement >> Christmas in America
• Orthometer >> Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Three Years Under Obama
• OSV Daily Take >> 2011: Best of Pope Benedict XVI
• Reflections of a Paralytic >> Another Patron Saint for Drug Addicts?
• RORATE CÆLI >> The crisis of the Church is a crisis of Bishops 3 - the Bishop of Antwerp on celibacy and the ordination of women
• Secondhand Smoke >> “Science” Proves Validity of Scrooge’s Happiness Formula
• SHIRT OF FLAME >> MY SPIRIT REJOICES IN GOD MY SAVIOR: GUEST POST BY FR. SALVATORE J. ROSA
• The Anchoress >> The Burdened Mrs. Pelosi May Leave?
• The Anchoress >> So this Catholic woman and this Pagan Woman – UPDATE
• The Chant Café >> Last Chance to Be Part of the Greatest Book on Catholic Music Ever
• The Chant Café >> Chant: The Master Path
• The Chant Café >> On that alto in the Shrine choir
• The hermeneutic of continuity >> A milestone in the decline in Latin?
• The Path Less Taken >> The poisoned friendship of St Thomas Becket and Henry II, as portrayed in the film Becket
• Traditional Vocations blog >> 32 seminarians tonsured the same day
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> QUAERITUR: simultaneous Masses v concelebration