Morning Roundup - Feria Or Holy Maccabees, Martyrs Or St. Peter in Chains - August 1st, 2012

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> What does God mean when He says He will provoke us with “a no-people?”
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Vatican newspaper says Melinda Gates ‘off the mark’ on contraception
• CatholicVote.org >> Eat at Chick-fil-A Today   (John White)
• Creative Minority Report >> Obama Feels Fetal Pain
• Crisis Magazine >> The Urgency of Rebuilding a Culture of Religious Freedom  (Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.)
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Prophets whining to God
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  The Reasons for “Partisanship”  (George Weigel)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Église Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet — A Confessional Experience… not… at least not yet!
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> The absolutely most awesome adoption story ever! What a woman! Forget mere foster homes…
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> The End of the Age of Distraction
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> The Texas Tower Sniper Incident
• Psallam Domino >> Psalm 63: Remembering Judas' betrayal on Wednesday
• Pundit & Pundette >> Remaking the US Senate
• RORATE CÆLI >> The way things were
• RORATE CÆLI >> You report: First TLM in Rostov-on-Don, Russia since Soviet times
• SANCTE PATER >> Monsignor Georg Ganswein to Become Bishop?
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> FEED MY LAMBS
• Standing on My Head >> LA Times Hypocrisy 
• Streets Of Gold >> Out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field (Matthew 13:44)
• The Catholic League >> HHS PUNISHES WHISTLE-BLOWER; INVESTIGATION NEEDED
• The Catholic Thing >> The Key that Fits the Lock, Part Two   (Anthony Esolen)
• The Chant Café >> "Deep River" as Sung by the Madeleine Choir School
• The Liturgical Day >> Aug. 1, 2012
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> The Catholic Press Needs to Get Over Its Father Maciel Syndrome
• TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS PROPERS IN ENGLISH >> SAINT PETER'S CHAINS/HOLY MACHABEES
• Vocation station >> The gate of convent is closed for me forever
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> 1 August: Seven Holy Maccabees & St. Peter in Chains. Wherein there is very cool Catholic stuff.
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? >> Paying their “fair share”: empty and cynical rhetoric
• Word On Fire Blog >> Culture: The Catholic Church and the Protection of Our Children