Morning Roundup - 5th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commemoration: St. Thomas Becket, Bishop & Martyr - December 29th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Recent Article Ponders the Rarity of Earth And How Astronomical Are the Odds Against Complex Life in the Universe!
• Catholic Sacristan (W.A.C.) >> Why do Catholics meditate on a Crucifix?
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Carrie Gress) >> 2014: The Year the Culture War Divide Became Deeper, Darker, and Weirder
• Crisis Magazine (Robert Oscar Lopez) >> Catholic Higher Education in Ruins
• Crisis Magazine (Gerard T. Mundy) >> The Liturgical “Sign of Peace”: Move or Remove?
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Thomas Becket
• DCLatinMass.Com (rockcreekcatholic) >> Three Christmastide Traditional Masses to be offered by Fr. Carr
• Dominicana Blog  (Br. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.) >> My True-Love Gave to Me
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Dominating a Dialogue (2): Blind them with erudition.
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> The 14 Most Popular CWR Stories of 2014
• JimmyAkin.Com >> What did Jesus mean when he said not to judge others? (and more!)
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> 29th December, St Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop and Martyr
• Mulier Fortis (Mac McLernon) >> Who Am I To Judge...?
• RORATE CÆLI (Mornac) >> Bishop of Antwerp wants ecclesiastical recognition of homosexual relationships
• RORATE CÆLI (Richard Cipolla) >> Sermon for the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas: - The Birth, Time and a Loaf of Ciabatta
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Neil deGrasse Tyson's (Unwittingly) Ironic Trolling
• Standing on  My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> The Family – Your Ladder to Heaven
• St. Peter's List >> Charioteer of the Virtues: 6 Lessons on Prudence & her Contrary Vices
• The Chant Café (Kathleen Pluth) >> Giving Liturgically
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Report: Islamic State militants destroy Catholic church in Mosul, Iraq
• The Imaginative Conservative (Peter Lawler) >> Typical Tocquevillian Advice
• The Imaginative Conservative (Erasmus More) >> Homophobia and Evolution in Constitutional Law
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> All-Time Top Ten Posts
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Thomas a Becket Dec. 29
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Fear Attempts To Destroy Sacred Life And Traditional Catholicism
• Unam Sanctam Catholicam (Boniface) >> Joshua the Contemplative
• Views From the Choir Loft (Jeff Ostrowski) >> Musical Resources • Sunday Within The Octave Of Christmas
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Like a fragrance filling the house
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> To the Infant Christ