Afternoon Roundup - Seven Holy Servite Founders, Confessors - Ss. Septem Fundat. Ord. Servorum B. M. V. - Missa 'Iusti Decantaverunt' - February 12th, 2013

• Accepting Abundance (Stacy Trasancos) >> The World is Watching Us
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr. Martin Fox) >> How might we react to Pope Benedict's abdication?
• chantblog >> Ash Wednesday: Immutemur habitu and Emendemus in melius
• chantblog >> "Preparing for Lent"
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> A Godly Man in an Ungodly Age  (Patrick J. Buchanan)
• Courageous Priest >> Active Homosexuals Should Not Be Boy Scout Leaders
• Creative Minority Report >> Catholic School Official Fired for Blogging on Gay Marriage
• Creative Minority Report >> The Next Pope Is Not Who You Expect
• Edward Feser >> The limits of eliminativism 
• First Thoughts >> Fr. Robert Barron on the Next Pope  (Anna Williams)
• First Thoughts >> Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Benedict  (Tristyn K. Bloom)
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Learning to Love the Pope Through His Writing
• HOLY SOULS HERMITAGE (Fr. George David Byers) >> It’s not about Benedict XVI’s health — It’s not about John Paul II’s last years (An exegesis of the statement of abdication)
• I Want to See God >> I Want to See God
• National Review Online (Wesley J. Smith) >> Geron Sells Embryonic Stem Cell Business
• New Liturgical Movement >> The Debate Over the Council Continues
• Patrick Madrid >> Could the next pope be the one Saint John Bosco saw in his Dream of the Two Pillars?
• Postabortion journey, walk with me... (InfiniteGrace) >> This is no clump of cells...
• Postabortion journey, walk with me... (InfiniteGrace) >> Graceful Links
• Roma locuta est >> Why it is Worth Worrying: On the Brink of a New Pontificate
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> MY THREE CHOICES FOR THE NEXT POPE, NOT THAT I AM CLAIRVOYANT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, OR MAYBE? 
• Streets Of Gold (Olivia) >> So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him (Genesis 1:27)
• The Spiritual Exercises Blog >> Why Exercise?
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Poignant
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASH WEDNESDAY Pope Benedict to remain at St. Peter’s rather than go to St. Sabina
• What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> A story lost: Who are the new saints Pope Benedict announced?
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> And Now, "Vatishock"
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> "We're Looking For An Awful Lot" – As Pope Resigns, The Electors Speak