Noon Roundup - Feria after Epiphany - Die Nona Januarii - Missa 'Ecce Advénit' - January 9th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Finding the Church in a Bach Fugue
• Catholic Education Resource Center >> My "Way of Beauty"  (Robert Royal)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> When, if ever, should the church refuse to bury someone?  (Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Christian persecution doubles in a year – is this part of the ‘global morality gap’?  (Ed West)
• Catholic Stand >> The Lay Faithful’s Call to Kerygma  (Fr. James Melnick)
• Catholic Stand >> How To Be A Biblical Literalist  (JoAnna Wahlund)
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> "Christian-Islamic dialogue is blurred from before the start for at least two reasons."
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> Wednesday
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> What's Wrong with Shame?
• Creative Minority Report (Patrick Archbold) >> Mag: Children Need Dads
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> College Prof Builds Awesome Snow Chapel
• Crisis Magazine >> Why Max Weber Was Wrong  (Samuel Gregg)
• Crisis Magazine >> Is the Church Inherently Conservative?  (James Kalb)
• Crisis Magazine >> Hesiod’s Works and Days  (Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Hans Urs von Balthasar on Beauty
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Fr. Robert Barron: Why did Jesus have to die the way he did?
• Edward Feser >> 2014 Aquinas Workshop
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Little Sisters in the Political Madhouse  (Pete Spiliakos)
• First Thoughts >> The Future in God’s Good Word  (Phillip Cary)
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Nostra Aetate (3): the post-Conciliar Magisterium
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> The Humiliation of a Pope
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Life, Literature, and the Horror of Abortion
• Matthew Archbold (NC Register) >> What's Wrong with Shame?
• RORATE CÆLI >> Straight talk from Benedict-appointee: "Francis a figure of discontinuity with previous pontificate, exorcises Church from her fears"
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WOULDN'T THIS BISHOP-RECTOR OF THE PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY BEEN WELL ADVISED TO USED THE TERMS "CONTINUITY AND NEWNESS" IN DESCRIBING THE PONTIFICATE OF POPE FRANCIS WHEN COMPARED TO POPE BENEDICT?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> MY CLAIRVOYANCE TELLS ME THAT SUNDAY'S SOLEMNITY OF THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD WILL BE TOWARD THE LORD!
• St. Peter's List >> Top 10 Most Popular Catholic Lists of 2013
• The Catholic Thing >> Conforming to Reality  (Clifford Staples, Ph.D.)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Want to be a better homilist? Loyola University offers online preaching course
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Pittsburgh Catholic schools try “cyber days” instead of snow days
• The hermeneutic of continuity  (Fr. Tim Finigan) >> Confession and the grille
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Sometimes the Mask Slips, a Little
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Scientific Evidence that More Traditional Mexican Catholics Receive Jesus in Holy Communion
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Byzantine Splendor and Roman Sobriety
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Place your hand over your heart
• Word On Fire Blog >> How to Share Fr. Barron's Content on Your Website