Noon Roundup - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Assumptione Beatae Mariae Virginis - Missa 'Signum Magnum' - August 15th, 2013

• Acton Institute PowerBlog >> Explainer: What’s Going on in Egypt?  (Joe Carter)
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Some Biblical Roots of the Teaching on the Assumption of Mary
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> Mary, Ark of the New Covenant (Assumption homily)
• Catholic In The Ozarks (Shane Schaetzel) >> Why Do Catholic Bibles Have More Books? 
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Reforming the Church is a complex, almost an impossible task. Already, criticism of the Pope’s delays is beginning to mount: he needs our prayers  (William Oddie)
• Creative Minority Report >> California: Embrace Gay Agenda or Lose Tax Exempt Status 
• Crisis Magazine >> Catholicism in China Today   (Tom McGregor)
• Crisis Magazine >> Orwell’s 1984: Are We There Yet?  (Sean Fitzpatrick)
• Crisis Magazine >> Suicide’s Tormented Souls  (Randall B. Smith)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Scott Hahn on the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> How contraception destroyed a parochial school
• Edward Feser >> Eliminativism without truth, Part III
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> OLDIE: PRP – 4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption
• IDLE SPECULATIONS (Terry Prest) >> Assumpta est Maria 
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> "The Assumption" by Monsignor Ronald Knox
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> 15th August, Assumption of Our Blessed Lady  
• New Liturgical Movement >>  Solemnity of the Assumption Mass Schedule at Mt. Calvary, Baltimore  (Matthew Alderman)
• OSV Daily Take >> How to prepare for end-of-life health care decisions
• RORATE CÆLI >> Proclamatio Dogmatis Assumptionis Beatæ Mariæ Virginis (A. D. 1950)
• RORATE CÆLI >> Assumption painting in a sacristy
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> THE REDWOOD ABBEY
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> AS THE PREMIER EVANGELIST, OUR LADY BRINGS PEOPE BACK TO THE CHURCH IN THE NEW EVANGELIZATION
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> PAPAL MASS FOR THE ASSUMPTION OF THE MOST BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AT CASTELGONDOLFO 
• The Catholic Thing >> Archaeological Thriller  (Rick Becker)
• The hermeneutic of continuity (Fr. Tim Finigan) >> "ac Nostra"
• Transalpine Redemptorists at Home >> One year on 
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Assumption Homily