Morning Roundup - Transfiguration of the Lord - Commem.: SS. Sixtus II & Companions - August 6th, 2014

• Acton Institute PowerBlog >> ISIS Actively ‘Recruits’ Girls And Women Online
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> What We Fear Controls Us – A Meditation on the “Eighth Deadly Sin”
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith) >> Giving credit where it’s due to Pope Paul VI
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Chesterton and St Thérèse were ‘soul twins’, says priest
• Crisis Magazine  (James Kalb) >> How to Accentuate the Positive
• Crisis Magazine (Regis Martin) >> Life as Preparation for Death
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Majestic Voice: Reflections on the Transfiguration of the Lord
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Neither terrorists nor viruses. . .
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P.) >> How to Talk About Homosexuality
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> Babies are Children, not "Carbon Legacies!" 
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> The Anniversary of Hiroshima: John Paul II and Fulton Sheen on the Bomb and Conversion 
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Mainstreamed madness since V2: Can you handle the truth?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> "The Truth About Priestly Continence and Celibacy in the Early Church"
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Liturgical Notes on the Feast of Saint Dominic
• Regina Magazine Blog (Bev Stevens) >> Why Don’t We All Wear Hats?
• Regina Magazine (Beverly Stevens) >> A Short Story 
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> In New Declarations, Priest Pardoned by Pope Francis Says, "The Holy Spirit Sends Us Jesus' Message through Fidel Castro."
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> The Guns of August Still Rumble: Part II - In the End, Austria Dismantled, but Germany More Centralized and Unified than Ever: Why?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> "A THROW-BACK MOVEMENT IS GROWING!" --SAINT LOUIS DISPATCH
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Guardians of the Galaxy – Too Much of a Good Thing?
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> American Christianity: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism?
• The Catholic Thing (Daniel McInerny) >> A Catholic Moment in the Arts?
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bruce Frohnen) >> The Sublime and the Beautiful in Yosemite Valley
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> These Stone Walls Turns Five Years Old
• Views From the Choir Loft >> Five Questions No Liturgist Can Answer
• Word on Fire Blog >> "Heroic Priesthood" - New Film by Fr. Robert Barron