Evening Roundup - Feria of Advent - Commemor: St. Sabbas, Abbot Or Jesus Christ the High Priest - Missa 'Juravit Dóminus' - December 5th, 2013

• Bill Petro >> History of the Christmas Tree
• Canterbury Tales (Dr. Taylor Marshall) >> Top 5 Books on the Blessed Virgin Mary
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Catholics around the world mourn Nelson Mandela
• Catholic Stand >> Are You Wearing Dung-Coloured Glasses?  (Melanie Jean Juneau)
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> #BenedizionedeiBambinelli!
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture >> Trifkovic on RTTV News, Tuesday, December 3, 2013  (Srdja Trifkovic)
• Creative Minority Report (Patrick Archbold) >> Poverty Or Income Equality?
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> A Little Catholic Humor
• Daily Meditations with Fr. Alfonse >> Mt 7:21, 24-27 Laying Down A Solid Foundation in Christ
• Eye of the Tiber >> Pope Francis Sneaks Out Of Vatican At Night In Disguise To Help Poor, Fight Crime
• First Thoughts >> When Creation is Not Good  (Phillip Cary)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Only for Classicists who like Cicero and Euripides
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> “Antinomianism in high places” – Canonist Ed Peters on divorce, remarriage, Communion
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> You have GOT to be joking: Making the sacred as ugly as sin!
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Jesse Tree - Day 5: Abraham
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Made in China: Are We Funding a War Machine?
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Evangelii Gaudium: Chapter One
• Mark Shea (NC Register) >> The Thing That Used to Be Conservatism Puts Out a Hit on Francis  ("...Well, if there is one strategy I have seen deployed more than any other in my years of experience with anti-Catholic apologists it is this: Whenever it can be done, organizations bent on attacking the Church love to put forward Catholics--preferably cradle Catholics--to say 'I was raised Catholic, and I can tell you for a fact that the Church's teaching on X is garbage and you can safely ignore it'.  It is the strategy of everybody from atheists, to Fundamentalists, to the Democratic party whenever they trot out Pelosi and Biden and Sebelius to chatter about the glories of Planned Parenthood. And sure enough, it is the strategy of FOX who--swimming in money and able to pick from a vast pool of real talent ranging from Fr. Robert Sirico on the Right, to Fr. Robert Barron in the center, or John Allen, Jr. on the Left (all of whom have sufficient credentials to offer something like a serious analysis and critique of Francis' thought)--instead tapped a young video game reviewer named Adam Shaw to pen the hit piece. Why? Because hit pieces need no qualifications beyond 'I was raised Catholic and I can tell you...' The unthinking platitudes, shallow analysis and mendacity can flow, unencumbered by the thought process when your sole goal is to poison the well.  Then all you need do is make sure Drudge links it (as he dutifully has) and the conservative Catholics FOX seeks to poison against Francis are sent the clear message that this is not some Outsider attacking the Church, this is a True Catholic defending the Church from our dangerous new pope....")
• Psallam Domino (Kate Edwards) >> Psalm 131: Verses 1-2
• RORATE CÆLI >> Summorum Pontificum: A Hope for the Church
• RORATE CÆLI >> De mortuis nil nisi bonum?...
• RORATE CÆLI >> Beyond Belief: a Neoconservative Reality Show
• The Chant Café >> THURSDAY WITHIN THE OCTAVE OF BLACK FRIDAY- Sympathy for Victims of Poorly-Publicized Hate Crimes  (Adam Wood)
• The Chant Café >> Eucharistic Procession for the Feast of Christ the King - Steubenville  (Ben Yanke)
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> The Olde Curmudgeon -- Chapter 8
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> 12 Ways to Traditionally Prepare to Celebrate Jesus’ Birthday
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> Godspeed, Madiba
• With Good Reason (Fr. Thomas V. Berg) >> Evangelii Gaudium: Exhorting a Self-Referential Church