Morning Roundup - St. Edward the Confessor, King - S. Eduardi Regis Confessoris - Missa 'Os Iusti' - October 13th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Temptation as a Form of Martyrdom – A Meditation on a Writing of St. Ambrose
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Family synod: full text of the mid-term report 
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Mark Greaves) >> Family synod: mid-term report is hailed as a ‘pastoral earthquake’
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Debate: Is the family synod document a triumph or disaster?
• Catholic Stand (Howard Duncan) >> Leprosy: Vietnam and The Franciscan Order
• Chiesa.expressonline.it  (Sandro Magister) >> The Real Dilemma: Indissolubility or Divorce
• Crisis Magazine (Regis Martin) >> Rediscovering the Pleasures of Penance
• Crisis Magazine (Anthony Esolen) >> When Textbooks Upheld the Ideals of Our Ancestors
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Bruce Hoyt, O.P.) >> The Lord is in This Place
• Eye of the Tiber >> Cardinal Kasper Adds Three Sacraments
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> Its not me, its the 'System"
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Play by Play: Card. Burke’s video interview recap!
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Pope Francis, Communion, and the outskirts of Buenos Aires
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> Doctors Rightly Reject "Anti-Vaxxers'" Children
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> For the record: Synodical twists
• Pursued by Truth (Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP) >> A Homeless Man’s Widow’s Mite
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> First Synod Report creates a New Gospel: Homosexual Orientation must be "valued" by Church; Homosexual Unions "mutual aid that constitute precious support in the life of the partners"
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Pro-Life and Pro-Family Group: Synod Report a "betrayal". Faithful "morally obliged to oppose course taken within the Synod against natural law"
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> IS THERE A PERFECT STORM FOR A RENAISSANCE OR A SCHISM THE LIKES WE HAVE NOT SEEN SINCE THE TIME OF THE ANTI-POPES IN THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH, HER GLORIOUS HISTORY?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE WINDS OF CHANGE ARE BLOWING AND PICKING UP SPEED
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> Synod Day 7 – A New Phase begins
• The New Theological Movement  (Father Ryan Erlenbush) >> What really happened during the Fatima Miracle of the Sun?
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Progressive Catholic Bishops Want Progress But Bring Children’s Destruction Instead
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. King Edward Oct. 13
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> The Boy who Saw the Mother of God
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Pope Benedict XVI’s Daily Rule of Prayer for Priests
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Remembering October 13th, 1917