Morning Roundup - Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major - August 5th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> By breaking a wooden yoke, you forge an iron yoke! – A meditation on a saying by Jeremiah
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (William Oddie) >> Don’t worry about Cardinal Kasper’s flaky ideas on Holy Communion for the remarried: the Synod will come and go, and Pope Francis will still back Cardinal Müller
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Church leaders in Iraq call for day of prayer in face of ‘ethnic cleansing’
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> US Chaldeans call on President Obama to help end ‘genocide’ of Iraqi Christians
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Chinese bishop urges Catholics to hold firm as religious symbols removed
• Catholic Stand (Bob Kurland) >> God’s Gift to Man–The Transforming Power of Music
• Catholic Stand (Matthew Tyson) >> Everyone Is Wrong About Sex
• Courageous Priest  (John Quinn) >> Public Black Mass: Bishop Calls for Eucharistic Adoration and Processions
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Counter-Cultural Ad Shows Dad as "Awesome"
• Crisis Magazine (R.J. Snell) >> Ruthless Ideology and the End of Debate
• Crisis Magazine (James P. Bernens) >> Why Do We Read Good Books?
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> August 5: Our Lady of the Snows
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Well-planted, or uprooted? 
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Justin Mary Bolger, O.P.) >> Salting Civil Society
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> IS THERE ANYTHING NEW TO SAY ABOUT VATICAN II? YES!! (3)  ("...It is this profound embeddedness of a Bishop in his own Church that should guarantee the authenticity of his judgements when, exceptionally and untypically, he is absent from his ekklesia and sitting with his fellow-bishops in Council. One thinks of those memorable phrases of Pope Francis, that a pastor should smell of his sheep; that he should not be an airport bishop. Both of them bear directly upon this point. Lamentably, the unexpected length of Vatican II meant that bishops became very much airport bishops. They got to know each other extremely well; they became politicians; they became more preoccupied with the views expressed a moment ago by some glamorous peritus than with the opinions of tedious old Fr Black back in Great Snoring, and his even more boring parishioners. They may have asked themselves only very infrequently whether the exciting novelties in the air of S Peter's were congruous with the teaching that dear old Bishop Brown (never an emeritus because he died in office) had hammered away at, in season and out of season, for the thirty years of his episcopate, not to mention his predecessor Bishop Green. Heaven forgive them, some of the Fathers of Vatican II may even have congratulated themselves on being so much more Modern and Enlightened than Black, Brown, or Green. [...] We cannot know how long it may have to be before the grave dysfunction in episcopacy (Aidan Nichols, not an intemperate writer, uses the phrase 'dereliction of duty'), which Vatican II bequeathed to the Church, will be healed...")
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> Pope's 10 Ways
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> GUEST POST: “Ten Commandments of Reverence for the Most Blessed Sacrament”
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Dublin’s Archbp. Martin criticizes young traditional priests
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Archbishop Kurtz: Synod can be “a catalyst” for renewal
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Competing Theories of Christ’s Atonement: Penal Substitution, Economic Transaction, or Obediential Love?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> More papally-induced anxiety (PIA) syndrome?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> "So Heavenly Minded You're No Earthly Good"?
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> GOODBYE, MOSUL!
• RORATE CÆLI (Joseph Shaw) >> Celebrating Mass ad orientem: video
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> ELDERLY, DYING LIBERAL PRIESTS' GROUP BERATES THE ONLY VOCATIONS COMING OUT OF IRELAND, THE ONLY YOUNG PRIESTS THERE
• The Catholic Thing (James V. Schall, S.J.) >> On Lethargy  (Excellent!)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Boom: Nashville sees surge in vocations
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> But what does the “Sign of Peace” really mean?—UPDATED
• Word on Fire Blog >> Sharing the Prayer Life of Jesus: An Interview with Shane Kapler