Morning Roundup - St. Cajetan, Confessor - Missa 'Os Iusti' - Commem.: St. Donatus, Bishop & Martyr - August 7th, 2014

• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Missa Cantata for Solemnity of Assumption on 15 August in Benedict, Maryland
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> What Are Our Pets Really Saying? Perhaps they express the longing of all creation.
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Bishop David McGough) >> We, like the disciples, will be gripped in life’s unpredictable storms
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Thousands of Iraqis flee as militants seize ‘Christian capital’
• Catholic Sacristan (Wendell) >> Presbyterians à la mode-a-lism | Poor choice of words or heresy or both?
• Chiesa.expressonline.it  (Sandro Magister) >> Vatican Diary / Reform of the papacy, a work in progress 
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Abortionist on MSNBC: Abortion a "Sacred Decision"
• Crisis Magazine (R. Jared Staudt) >> A Defense of the Grotesque in Flannery O’Connor’s Art
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Litany of Humility
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Peter's failure is our warning. . .
• Dominicana Blog  (Br. John Maria Devaney, O.P.)  >> Antiques Roadshow for Your Soul
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Gardone, but only for Classicists
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> New cybersecurity breach: 1.2B usernames and passwords
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> “Ressourcement,” “Aggiornamento,” and Vatican II in Ecumenical Perspective
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> The Feast of the Transfiguration (and the 36th anniversary of Pope Paul VI's death)
• Latin Language Blog  (Brittany Britanniae) >> The Oddest & Weirdest Pets of Ancient Rome
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Dems Really Are the EVIL PARTY!
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> When prayer gets as sentimentalized as "Thinking of you!"
• New Liturgical Movement (Kyle Washut) >> Transfiguration of the Lord: Blessing of the Grapes
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> BREAKING:CHALDEAN PATRIARCHATE'S APPEAL FOR URGENT HELP S.O.S.
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> EDITORIAL Qaraqosh falls: A greater punishment is ready for the more mighty.
• RORATE CÆLI (Joseph Shaw) >> Does Islam need the "Enlightenment"? Op-Ed
• SHIRT OF FLAME (Heather King) >> VERMONT
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> AS THE USA (WHO MADE THIS ATROCITY POSSIBLE) AND THE THE UNITED NATIONS AND OTHER WORLD LEADERS STAND BY SAYING AND DOING NOTHING, THE CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ ARE BEING ERADICATED!
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Genocide in Iraq
• The Catholic Thing (Anthony Esolen) >> Clever Barbarians?
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Fundamental Option Theory: The default theology
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bradley J. Birzer) >> A Christian Statement on the Liberal Arts and Virtue
• The Sensible Bond >> The Franciscan hall of mirrors 
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> A Good Thing ISIS Isn't Israeli...
• Views From the Choir Loft >> St. Thomas on the “Asperges” (Sprinkling Rite)
• With Good Reason (Fr. Thomas V. Berg) >> Does Jesus Call Us… To Be ‘Nice’?
• Word on Fire Blog >> On My Way to the Flannery O’Connor Conference: An Encounter of Mercy