Morning Roundup - Seventh Day in the Octave of Christmas - Comm.: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confess. - December 31st, 2012

• Accepting Abundance (Stacy Trasancos) >> Evolution and Humanity in 2012?
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Thinking About Thinking – A Reflection on some of the Modern Pitfalls and Logical Fallacies that Hinder Us
• Canterbury Tales (Dr. Taylor Marshall) >> Christ Really Was Born Exactly 2013 Years Ago! The Chronology of Josephus Was Wrong
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> Seventh Day of Christmas - St. Sylvester 
• Creative Minority Report >> Arrested “Plotting to Celebrate Christmas”
• Crisis Magazine >> Finding God with Basil, Gregory, and Newman  (Christopher O. Blum)
• Crisis Magazine >> The Catholic Left’s Latest Call for the Ordination of Women  (Kenneth D. Whitehead)
• Edward Feser >> Aquinas versus Newton?
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  Russia’s Cruel Adoption Ban  (Matthew Hennessey)
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  Rediscovering Paul VI  (William Doino Jr.)
• First Thoughts >> The Word of the Day: went  (Anthony Esolen)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Te Deum Laudamus! The Martyr’s Plenary Indulgence on 31 December. Blood and guts everywhere. Faith flourishing.
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Atheist A.C. Grayling is a meretricious thinker, but a marvelous comedian
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> Social Justice According to Pius XI
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Gun Control Fails in England 
• New Liturgical Movement >> Christmas Varia
• Ordo recitandi: The Saint Lawrence Press Blog (Rubricarius) >> St. Sylvester of Rome
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE TEN TOP NEWS STORIES AT SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH IN MACON FOR 2012
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world (John 1:9)
• The Catholic Thing >> Winters of My Discontent  (Brad Miner)
• The Liturgical Day (Jimmy Akin) >> Dec. 31, 2012 
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Post-Modern Evolution
• V for Victory! (Anita Moore, O.P., Esq.) >> Shelved: 2012
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Fr Z’s Predictions for 2013
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Plenary Indulgences for 31 December and 1 January