Evening Roundup - Vigil of the Assumption - Commemoration: St. Eusebius, Confessor - August 14th, 2012

• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr. Martin Fox) >> Vague penances: what to do?
• CatholicVote.org >> Ryan & Obama’s Contrasting Medicare Visions  (Dan Flaherty)
• CatholicVote.org >> The Battle for Western Culture: What is at Stake?  (Steve Skojec)
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> Report From Rome: Berlusconi’s Comeback?  (Srdja Trifkovic)
• Creative Minority Report >> Wow. Obama Says Freedom of Religion is "Foremost" Right
• Damian Thompson >> BBC's Mark Thompson moves to New York Times. Crikey
• First Thoughts >> What Are Protestant Seminaries For?  (Matthew Cantirino)
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH >> Rest in Peace, Darling Nellie
• Mulier Fortis (Mac McLernon) >> Prayers For Syria 
• New Liturgical Movement >> Napa Institute Conference: Pontifical Mass, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
• New Liturgical Movement >> Virgil's Georgics and the Rule of St. Benedict?
• Psallam Domino >> Psalm 92 and the organic development of the Office
• Reflections of a Paralytic >> Andrea Mitchell vs. Paul Ryan (and the Ladies Who Love Him)
• RORATE CÆLI >> For the record: Gabriele charged
• Secondhand Smoke (Wesley J. Smith) >> Anti-Christian “Secularist” Futile Care Attack Against Parental Medical Decision-Making Rights
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Do You Have Spiritual Backbone?
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Belmont Abbey Apologetics Camp
• The Curt Jester >> Doctor knows best
• The Curt Jester >> Cardinal Dolan discusses his decision to invite the President to the Al Smith dinner
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> A bishop explicitly charges all his seminarians to learn the Extraordinary Form. Wherein Fr. Z rants.  (His Excellency Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino!)
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Rep. Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Catholic Herald: The Church should make life harder for Catholics