Late Morning Roundup - St. Stephen, Deacon & Protomartyr - Missa 'Sederunt Principes' - Comm.: Day in the Octave of Christmas - December 26th, 2013

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP >> MEET THE NEW TOTALITARIAN SPEECH STORM TROOPERS
• Acton Institute PowerBlog >> Utopia is a Relative Concept  (Joe Carter)
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Some Paradoxes and Mysteries of the Incarnation
• Bill Petro >> History of Boxing Day: Feast of St. Stephen?
• Catholic Stand >> The Unexpected Pro-Life Witness  (Anabelle Hazard)
• Creative Minority Report (Patrick Archbold) >> What The Pope Doesn't Know
• Crisis Magazine >> The Last Days of December  (Regis Martin)
• Crisis Magazine >> The Angels bring Good News to the Shepherds  (Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Why Christ? An Undying Love
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Stephen the Martyr
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Once in Royal David's City
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> A Christmas reflection from Thomas Merton
• Edward Feser >> A complex god with a god complex
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Seinfeld’s Comedy of Custom  (Travis LaCouter)
• First Thoughts >> The Massacre of the Innocents  (Mark Movsesian)
• First Thoughts >> The Line Dividing Good and Evil  (Ron Belgau)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> POVERTY AND WAR
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Satanic women attack Card. Meisner, Cathedral during Christmas Mass
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Well Said
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Second Day of Christmas: St. Stephen, The First Martyr
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Frank Capra's Forgotten Christmas Classic
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> Laetabundus!
• RORATE CÆLI >> Note: What does the new Spanish abortion bill mean?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WHAT TO DO? WHAT TO DO? OH, WHAT TO DO ABOUT CHRISTMAS VIGIL AND NIGHT MASSES?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> BREAKING NEWS! POPE FRANCIS, SO SAYS CBS EVENING NEWS, IS BASICALLY AS CONSERVATIVE AS HIS PREDECESSORS!
• St. Peter's List >> The Story of the Magi in 12 Works of Art
• The Catholic Thing >> God Always Has the Last Laugh  (Kristina Johannes)
• The Chant Café >> In the Age of Francis, the chant is MORE beautiful than EVER  (Jeffrey Tucker)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> “We are meant to be Incarnational people…”
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Final The Catholic Roman Rite, The New and The Old, Don Pietro Leone # 11
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Christmas Lesson For Traditional Catholics
• Transalpine Redemptorists at Home >> BETHLEHEM IN THE SOUTH ISLAND
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> A Christmas Unlike Any Other
• Word On Fire Blog >> St. Stephen: The Martyr Who Opposed the Dark