Afternoon Roundup - 18th Sunday after Pentecost or Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time - October 12th, 2014

• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> 'Where everyone is invited to bring everything we have, best and worst' (Sunday homily)
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Our Lady of the Pillar
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> St. Claude de la Colombiere on Mercy
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! (Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP) >> Invited to be transformed by the feast
• Dymphna's Road >> Like Gold From the Furnace
• Dymphna's Road >> Salvator Mundi
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Behold how the Left thinks
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> Big Brained Scientist Says We Aren't Conscious
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Good priest, bad priest: what's the difference, and who says?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Phil Lawler: "What's wrong with this Synod, II: Debate is free, open (and censored)"
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Fontgombault Sermon: From the unborn child to the terminal patient, God doesn't want to know what we own, but who we are
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Cardinal Burke a pariah? Not for the Synod Fathers! - Pope unexpectedly names 6 liberals, including Wuerl, to draft report
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WHICH RITE OF BLESSING SALT AND HOLY WATER IS RICHER AND MORE MEANINGFUL IN A PERSONAL WAY? I REPORT YOU JUDGE! 
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WITH ALL THE TALK ABOUT DIVORCE CATHOLIC STYLE LETS RETURN TO THE "INTERNAL FORUM" DISCUSSION
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Get Happy
• The Catholic Thing (Fr. C. J. McCloskey) >> Blessed Alvaro del Portillo
• The Imaginative Conservative (Dwight Longenecker) >> Mysticism and Optimism: On the Life and Work of Julian of Norwich'
• The Sensible Bond >> Hope and a new parlour game
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Flynncestry: The Good Old Days of Murder and Mayhem!
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Devil, Marijuana, and Blood Vs Clean Traditional Catholic Soul
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Edwin Martyr King Oct. 12 
• Views From the Choir Loft (Fr. David Friel) >> The Society for Catholic Liturgy
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> To seek what is human, to give what is divine