Morning Roundup - St. Damasus I, Pope & Confessor - Missa 'Si Diligis Me' - Commemoration: Feria of Advent - December 11th, 2012

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Strange Thing Jesus Said to a Paralyzed Man – Another Insight from Pope Benedict’s New Book
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Why is there in the Church, on both sides of the Atlantic, such a failure of leadership? Is it because it is being frustrated by bishops’ conferences?  (William Oddie)
• Catholicseeking (Helen Gonsalves) >> Soul Stirrings
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (by***) >> Vatican Diary / Ratzinger the African
• Courageous Priest >> Papal Smack Down!
• Creative Minority Report >> Pope Goes Full Inigo Montoya
• Crisis Magazine >> The Measure of Humanity  (Arland K. Nichols)
• Crisis Magazine >> Does Belief in the Afterlife Diminish Man?   (Donald DeMarco)
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >>  Purify Her Uncleanness  (Carrie Frederick Frost)
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Clericalism for dogs. What we’ve come to. Time for an ad orientem Holy Souls Hermitage Special!
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Update on your sending in names of priests for whom to pray to Holy Souls Hermitage: Super-Yikes!
• Holy Souls Hermitage - Fr. George David Byers >> Send in the names of seminarians for whom to pray to Holy Souls Hermitage
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> What the Abortion Industry Fears Most 
• National Review Online (Mark Steyn) >> Nobel Laureate Steyn Takes On National Review
• New Liturgical Movement >> A High Altar Restored in Poland
• Reflections of a Paralytic >> A Tale of Two Births
• RORATE CÆLI >> In illo tempore...: "Our priests, the image of Our Lord"
• RORATE CÆLI >> The collapse of the number of Christians in England and Wales 
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> The Decline of the Church in Britain
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> It is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost  (Matthew 18:14)
• The Catholic Thing >> On Philosophical Eros  (James V. Schall, S. J.)
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> The modern Maccabean revolt
• The Integrated Catholic Life >> Jigsaw Puzzle Spirituality  (Fr. Dwight Longenecker)
• The Liturgical Day >> Dec. 11, 2012
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Statistics Time!
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 10: Tuesday of the 2nd Week of Advent
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> The Pope's "Crystal" Smile – Suddenly, B16's Bulls Can Talk 
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> Morenita, Miles de Gracias