Morning Roundup - Feria or St. Giles, Abbot Or Twelve Holy Brothers, Martyrs - September 1st, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Meditation on the Utter Absurdity of the Cross to a Hedonistic World
• Catholic Education Resource Center (Peter Kreeft) >> God and Suffering
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Carol Glatz) >> Francis tells Gaza priest: ‘Be strong, have courage and keep going’
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Pope Francis phones to comfort priest at refugee camp in Iraq 
• Catholic Stand (Bob Drury) >> A Dark Age of Reason
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Luje Hoyt, O.P.) >> At Work With the Father
• Dymphna's Road >> A monk
• Dymphna's Road >> REPOST---There are Four Lights
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> The Anglican Patrimony
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> The False Christs of Our Age
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Of Noisy Mass and Quiet Parking Lot
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> What does the Instrumentum laboris of the October Synod say about natural law?
• On This Rock (Fr. John Hollowell) >> Columbus, Indiana Catholic Church, St. Bartholomew, Vandalized
• On This Rock (Fr. John Hollowell) >> On Conservative Priests and Pope Francis
• Orbis Catholicus Secundus (John Sonnen) >> Powerful Witness of Catholic Memes on the Internet 
• Orbis Catholicus Secundus (John Sonnen) >> Relic of Pius X
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> AD ORIENTEM AS THE BEST KEY TO THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE MASS ON THE PASCHAL MYSTERY RATHER THAN THE HORIZONTAL ELEMENTS
• The Catholic Thing (Pope Leo XIII) >> Of Workers and Property  ("5. It is surely undeniable that, when a man engages in remunerative labor, the impelling reason and motive of his work is to obtain property, and thereafter to hold it as his very own. . . .he therefore expressly intends to acquire a right full and real, not only to the remuneration, but also to the disposal of such remuneration, just as he pleases. Thus, if he lives sparingly, saves money, and, for greater security, invests his savings in land, the land, in such case, is only his wages under another form; and, consequently, a working man's little estate thus purchased should be as completely at his full disposal as are the wages he receives for his labor.  . . .Socialists, therefore, by endeavoring to transfer the possessions of individuals to the community at large, strike at the interests of every wage-earner, since they would deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his wages, and thereby of all hope and possibility of increasing his resources and of bettering his condition in life...."   abstracted from Rerum Novarum)
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Indiana churches vandalized with verses from Quran
• The Foundry (Chuck Donovan) >> Why the Abortion Rate Is Declining
• The Imaginative Conservative (Joseph Pearce) >> Modern Art and Imaginative Conservatism

Source: Orbis Catholicus Secundus (John Sonnen): Powerful Witness of Catholic Memes on the Internet