Noon Roundup - St. Francis Xavier, Confessor - Missa 'Loquebar' - Commemoration: Feria of Advent - December 3rd, 2013

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP >> SOME PEOPLE (AND INSTITUTIONS, EVEN CATHOLIC INSTITUTIONS) WILL SELL THEIR SOUL FOR MONEY
• Acton Institute PowerBlog >> War on Contraception? No, an Attack on Religion  (Joe Carter)
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Four Factors That Fuel the Crisis in Marriage and Family
• Bestiaria Latina Blog  (Laura Gibbs) >> Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: December 3
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> Saved in hope: What is salvation?
• Catholic Answers >> Was the Virgin Birth of Jesus Grounded in Paganism?  (Jon Sorensen)
• Catholic Education Resource Center >> A breath of life for an old religion  (Michael Cook)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Pope Francis to help launch worldwide ‘wave of prayer’ against hunger  (Carol Glatz)
• Catholic Stand >> The Devil You Say?  (Donald R. McClarey)
• Catholic World Report - Blog >> Introducing "The Cinephile: Film Reviews by Patrick Coffin"  (Carl E. Olson)
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> The Federalist Option of the Bishop of Rome
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Netanyahu Gives Book About The Spanish Inquisition to Pope Francis  ("Netanyahu wrote on the book: "To His Holiness Pope Franciscus, a great shepherd of our common heritage.”)
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> New Mega Study Confirms Abortion/ Breast Cancer Link
• Crisis Magazine >> Some Economic Applications of Evangelii Gaudium  (Wendy P. Warcholik)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Francis Xavier
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Evangelii gaudium, or the morality of money
• Dymphna's Road >> Catholic artisans
• Edward Feser >> Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives in Metaphysics
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> The Green Patriarch and the Victims of Haiyan  (Dylan Pahman)
• First Thoughts >> Hospitality, Immigration, and the Humanism of God  (Dale M. Coulter)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> A nice new Eucharistic Dogma?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 03: 1st Tuesday of Advent – “The lights we kindle”
• Godzdogz (The English Dominican Studentate) >> First Tuesday of Advent: Something New  (Matthew Jarvis OP)
• Jimmy Akin (NC Register) >> The LAST Church Father: 7 things to know and share
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> "The People in Darkness Have Seen a Great Light"
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Quick Overview of Advent: Getting Ready for that Special Guest! 
• Orbis Catholicus Secundus (John Sonnen) >> Revival of Sacred Liturgy in Ireland
• Pundit & Pundette >> About that Obamacare fix
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Last Things First: The Two “Mini-Seasons” of Advent
• Te Deum laudamus! (Diane M. Korzeniewski, OCDS) >> Advent Rorate Masses
• The Catholic Thing >> Francis, the Writer Unbound  (Hadley Arkes)
• The Chant Café >> Pontifical Mass at the Mission Basilica San Diego
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Syrian rebels kidnap nuns
• The Sensible Bond >> On death and shallow sanctuaries
• Word On Fire Blog >> What Can We Learn from the Saint Who Converted 700,000 People?  (Brandon Vogt)