Morning Roundup - The Ascension of Our Lord - Missa 'Viri Galilaei' - May 29th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Euphemisms have a place in human discourse but not when they obscure moral truth
• Catholic Education Resource Center >> The Ten Commandments: A Concise Summary for High School Students  (Deacon Douglas McManaman)
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> The saint who chopped down a sacred oak
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> EU rejects pro-life initiative  (Madeleine Teahan)
• Catholic Stand >> Planned Parenthood’s Pastoral Letter   (JoAnna Wahlund)
• Catholic Stand >> Stuck as the Prodigal Son’s Older Brother  (Jenni Groft)
• Creative Minority Report (Rebecca Taylor) >> Entering the Bionic Age: Why Be You, When You Can Be New?
• Crisis Magazine >> A Counterfeit Conscience  (Anthony Esolen)
• Crisis Magazine >> Without Gloss: Francis of Assisi and Western Catholicism  (Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.)
• Crisis Magazine >> St. Joan of Arc: A Guide for Every Age  (Christopher Check)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Blessed Joseph Kowalski, SDB, Salesian Martyr of Auschwitz
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Medal of Honor recipient Father Emil J. Kapaun
• Dymphna's Road >> A nun
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> COUNCILS: a Missed Opportunity
• Grace Before Meals (Fr. Leo) >> What’s On The Table: Videos of Fr. Leo’s Excellent Adventures
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> The Ascension: Continuing Closeness and Source of Lasting Joy
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Enough Happy Talk—Let's Have Some Cross-Carrying Cheerfulness
• Latin Word of the Day >> hospes: stranger, guest, host
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Good Counsel Homes: Helping End Abortion One Mom and Baby at a Time
• Matthew Archbold (NC Register) >> Must Watch Video of Denzel Washington Discussing Prayer, Faith, and Achieving Goals
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Is the "crisis of the family" a pastoral one, or a doctrinal one?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Second-generation Hispanic immigrants being seduced from Church in droves ... by "Americanization"
• New Liturgical Movement >> “The Offertory Chant is Necessary at Mass” - Fr Eric Andersen on Sacred Music and the Virtue of Religion  (Gregory DiPippo)
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Sermon for the Ascension by the Father Abbot of Fontgombault "Fighting the Dictatorships of our age with the Gospel." 
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> The Case for Infant Baptism
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WAS POPE FRANCIS REFERRING TO SOME CATHOLICS AND NON CATHOLICS IN MACON WHEN HE REFERRED TO PELAGIANISM HERESIES? I REPORT; YOU DECIDE!
• The Catholic Thing >> Ignoring a Pope While Pretending to Listen  (Randall B. Smith)
• The Chant Café >> New Dominican Priests  (Kathleen Pluth)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> The perils of celebrity priests
• The Imaginative Conservative >> The Genius of Byzantium: Reflections on a Forgotten Empire  (Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna)
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> 4 Reasons For Traditional Catholic Confession Behind Screen And Kneeling
• Views From the Choir Loft >> The Danger of Being Arbitrary in the Liturgy
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Free Musical Settings • Roman Missal, 3rd Edition
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Exivi a Patre et vado ad Patrem
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> "Go, Therefore"... and "Transform Everything"
• Word On Fire Blog >> Why the Ascension of the Lord Matters