Morning Roundup - St. Eusebius, Bishop & Martyr - Commemor.: Feria of Advent - December 16th, 2014

• ABYSSUS ABYSSUM INVOCAT / DEEP CALLS TO DEEP >> THE PAST AND PRESENT OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONTAIN SOME VALUABLE LESSONS FOR ROMAN CATHOLIC IN THE PAPACY OF POPE FRANCIS
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Don’t Forget to Worship God! A Call to Better Liturgy from an Unlikely Source
• Catholic Conclave (Christopher Gillibrand) >> Muslim organisations on collision course with Austrian government
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Full text: Vatican report on US women religious
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Archbishop of Sydney: ‘Hell has touched us’
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Lithuanian archbishop fears Russia attack on Baltic states
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Pakistani Catholic leader decries ‘barbaric’ attack on school
• Catholic Sacristan (W.A.C.) >> Where have all the statues gone?
• Catholic Stand (Nick Hardesty) >> In Defense of the Immaculate Conception: Part 4
• Catholic Stand (Foxfier) >> Catholicism & Conspiracies: Christmas
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> As Cardinal Dolan Washes Hands of Father Pavone, Whither Fidelity?
• Crisis Magazine (Dr. William Oddie) >> Pope’s Defense of the Faith Has Not Been Heard
• Crisis Magazine (Anthony Esolen) >> Let the Church Be a House of Wonder
• Dominicana Blog  (Br. Dominic Mary Verner, O.P.)  >> Doctrine Saves
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> The Papacy and Nuclear Deterrence
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 17: “the yearning for something purer and greater”
• Godzdogz (Luke Doherty OP) >> Third Tuesday of Advent
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> Pope Francis to Italian Media: People Are More Valuable Than ‘Hits’
• RORATE CÆLI (Richard Cipolla) >> “Salesianizing” the Traditional Catholic Movement: The Honey of Humility and Kindness
• RORATE CÆLI (Adfero) >> Event: Learn about the TLM in New York
• RORATE CÆLI (Peter Kwasniewski) >> Saying and Unsaying: The Synod’s Orwellian Atmosphere  ("...The common denominator between the liturgical reform and the Synod is accommodationism: the view that it is the Church’s business to adapt herself—her worship, her doctrine, her discipline—to 'modern man.' That’s exactly what Church leaders today are endeavoring to do, with results that all can see....The social crisis we are seeing in regard to marriage and sexuality is bound up with the spiritual crisis of no longer recognizing who is the bride and who is the Bridegroom, what is sacred and deserving of total reverence, and what is the purity demanded of the one who would dare approach the altar. Generations of Catholics have experienced a liturgy freed from traditions and marked by casual intimacies, just like their sexual morality. Which came first: relaxation and experimentation with the liturgy, or the slackening and abandonment of moral restraints? In any case, we are alive to see the last stage of the revolution: even as the worship of God was redefined according to the purported exigencies of modern man, so today, the same exigencies are driving the redefinition of man as such—an unsurprising outcome that underlines the connection between liturgy and anthropology...")
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Reason #8 to Reject the Reformation: Heterodoxy
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE PROBLEM WITH RIGID LEGALISM IN THE CHURCH AND THE QUICK DAMNATION OF OUR SOULS
• The Cloistered Heart (Nancy Shuman) >> Dear Saint Nicholas,
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Slaughter in Pakistan: there are no words for this kind of evil 
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> It’s here: Vatican report on U.S. nuns
• The Imaginative Conservative (Jonathan Witt) >> Tolkien, Wagner, and the Rings of Power
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> A Traditional Catholic Crusade With Hilaire Belloc
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Christmas Lights Bring Joy, Catholic and Secular
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Pope Saint Leo the Great on Fasting
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> 17 December, O SAPIENTIA