Noon Roundup - St. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor Or Immaculate Heart of Mary - Comm.: Feria of Advent - December 7th, 2013

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> No One Goes Away From Jesus Unchanged – As Seen In A Beautiful Christmas Commercial
• Catholic Answers >> SECRETE SANTA  (Hector Molina)
• Catholic Education Resource Center >> The banality of evil  (Father George W. Rutler)
• Catholic Stand >> Music Ministry: Performance or Prayer  (Greg Yoko)
• Catholic World Report - Blog >> Two nuns honored for hiding Jewish families in WWII  (Alberto Carosa)
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> Interview With Michael Voris on Cardinal Dolan and Being “Outmarketed” on Gay Marriage
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> Cardinal Dolan and the Bishops on Obamacare and HHS Mandate: Missing the Forest for the Tree
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Archbishop Sheen: Wasting Your Life
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> When The Night Becomes Dark
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Worrying?
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Whatever happened to Genesis? (3)
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> St. Ambrose read without moving his lips!
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 07: 1st Saturday of Advent – “Tota pulchra est Maria”
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> First Saturday of Advent: Discerning God's voice  (Oliver James Keenan OP)
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> EF Immaculate Conception: Sunday, not Monday
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Does 1 Maccabees Deny Its Own Inspiration?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> POPE BENEDICT MAY BE PRESENT AT BLESSED POPE JOHN PAUL II'S CANONIZATION
• The Catholic Thing >> Common Core Is Not Catholic Education  (David G. Bonagura, Jr.)  ("...By adopting Common Core pedagogy, Catholic schools have surrendered both their unique pedagogical method and their very identity. Catholic education begins on the premise that a loving, rational God created an ordered and purposed universe that points human beings back to Him.  In studying creation and all its features, including human beings and their works, we discover truths that shed further light on the mystery of God, the ultimate Truth...To do this the Church has adopted the pedagogical approach of the ancient Greeks and Romans known as the liberal arts, which progress in three stages – grammar, logic, and rhetoric – according to the age and abilities of students. The grammar stage, which lasts through about sixth grade, lays the foundations that are needed for what educators today call “higher order thinking skills” of logic (conceptual thought and analysis) and rhetoric (abstract thought and synthesis). This Trivium model is timeless because it corresponds to the natural intellectual development of the human person...Common Core forces Catholic educators to skip the grammar stage and jump right to logic and rhetoric, beginning even in the primary grades. Under Common Core, children will not absorb and memorize the basic components of learning – which is why in a few short years Common Core will fail and go the way of Whole Language and the dozens of other similar educational fads proffered over the last several decades...")
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Flash mob, you had me at “Jesu”
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Fermat's Last Stand
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Tota pulchra es Maria
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> The Mother, the Child, and the Serpent
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Hope of Thy Children Scarred by Sin