Morning Roundup - 7th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Comm.: St. Sylvester I, Pope & Confess. - December 31st, 2014

Local Events: Traditional Latin Mass Schedule for January 1st in the VA/DC/MD Metroplex & Environs - 2015

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> “Alas, Alas for the Great City!” An Urgent Plea for Prayer at the New Year!
• Ask Sister Mary Martha >> Under the Mistletoe with You!
• Bangor to Bobbio (Fr. Seán Coyle) >> Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. Happy New Year!
• Catholic Conclave (Christopher Gillibrand) >> Socialist Youth and Catholic Students at war
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith) >> What to look out for in 2015
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Jonathan Luxmoore) >> Majority of German bishops back call for Communion for remarried
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Church gained 15 million Catholics in a year, say researchers
• Catholic Stand (Patti Maguire Armstrong) >> If We Don’t Know It’s Sin, Does It Hurt Us?
• Catholic Stand  (Gabriel Garnica) >> The Ultimate Lemonade
• Chiesa.expressonline.it  (Sandro Magister) >> Spiritual Communion, an Unknown Quantity
• Courageous Priest  (John Quinn) >> Being a Busybody: The Devil’s Trap
• Crisis Magazine (Caitlin Bootsma) >> A Different Kind of Healthcare
• Crisis Magazine (Anne Hendershott) >> Campus Sexual Assault: Real and Imagined
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Father Barron on New Year's Resolutions
• DCLatinMass.Com (rockcreekcatholic) >> Fr. Rigdon to offer TLM on New Year’s morning at Silver Spring
• Dominicana Blog  (Br. Humbert Kilanowski, O.P.) >> The Year in Review
• Dymphna's Road >> Hail Mary
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Jesus is Temple, Jesus is Torah (2)
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> Gruber: There Will be Obamacare Death Panels
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> 31st December, St Sylvester I, Pope and Confessor
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> On the closing of another year: Prayer of St Augustine for Mercy
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> 1st January, The Circumcision of Our Lord and Octave of the Nativity
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> The Worlds of Difference an 'S' Can Make, Pope Francis the Economist, Free Will and More!
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> In Zimbabwe, Poverty Is the Church's Biggest Enemy
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Christmas 2014 Photopost - Part 1
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Plenary Indulgence reminders: Te Deum on Dec. 31 Veni Creator on Jan. 1
• Sense of the Sacred (Father Jojo Zerrudo) >> Consecrated to the Father, Hated by the world
• Sense of the Sacred (Father Jojo Zerrudo) >> Faith in God and Feng Shui?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> TO WATCHNIGHT OR NOT TO NIGHTWATCH ON NEW YEAR'S EVE; THAT IS THE QUESTION!
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> UNSAFE AT ANY MASS! WHEREAS FATHER RALPH NADER, I MEAN, ALLAN MCDONALD OPINES ON THE SAFETY OF THE COMMON CHALICE AND THE CHURCH'S LIABLITY IN THIS REGARD
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Boom: number of Catholics throughout the world continues to grow
• The Imaginative Conservative (John E. Rocha Sr.) >> Overwhelming Joy: Ebenezer Scrooge in Stave Five
• The Imaginative Conservative (Stephen Klugewicz) >> The Top Ten Greatest Violin Concertos
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> These Stone Walls: The Hits & Misses of 2014
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> St. Sylvester Pope Dec. 31
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Act of Adoration and Reparation
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> For All of Us There Exists a Path to Bethlehem