Morning Roundup - St. Francis Xavier, Confessor - Missa 'Loquebar' - Commemoration: Feria of Advent - December 3rd, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Who Is Isaiah and Why Is His Central Message So Critical Today?
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (William Oddie) >> Pope Francis has made a definitive contribution to the European debate
• Catholic Stand (Patti Maguire Armstrong) >> A Divine Mercy Christmas
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> "One of the merits of Christianity at its best is that ..."
• Chiesa.expressonline.it  (Sandro Magister) >> In the Synod on the Family Even the Pope Emeritus Is Speaking Out
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Islamic Radicals Raid Kenyan Quarry, Execute 36 Who?
• Crisis Magazine  (Arland K. Nichols) >> Mary’s Witness to the Gospel of Life
• Crisis Magazine (Stephen M. Krason) >> Street Harassment: Another Misdirected Cause?
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Francis Xavier
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P.) >> Vita Franciscana
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Liturgical law: The Ordinariate Rite 
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 04: “Wordless is the Word of the Father”
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> VIDEO: Chapel veils
• Godzdogz (Toby Lees OP) >> First Wednesday of Advent: Black Friday vs Jesus' permanent offer
• Human Exceptionalism (National Review Online; Wesley J. Smith) >> CDC: Circumcision Benefits Outweigh Risks
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Gorgeous new children’s book tells the Christmas story through the eyes of a shepherd child
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog >> Yes, We Can Know Truth Today
• Joe Catholic (Don Gonzalez) >> Navarre Bible Commentary: Wednesday, 1st Week of Advent
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Wednesday, Advent I: “My heart is moved with pity"
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> Texas Catholics to Gov. Perry: Don’t Execute Mentally Ill Inmate
• New Liturgical Movement (Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.) >> Dominican Rite Solemn Mass, Oakland CA
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> EF Ordo for Ireland
• Pursued by Truth (Sr. Theresa Aletheia Noble, FSP) >> Can a Nun Doubt the Existence of God?
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Extensive Book Review: Don Pietro Leone's "The Family Under Attack"
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> For the record: Linking some dots, on the record, regarding Ivereigh's "Team Bergoglio" and the 2013 Abdication and Conclave
• RORATE CÆLI (Adfero) >> Wear the Veil Day   Show your devotion to Jesus Christ and Our Blessed Mother
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> BOMBSHELL: POPE BENEDICT COMES OUT SWINGING AND DEFINES CHURCH TEACHING ON MARRIAGE AND DEFINES THE PROPER PASTORAL APPROACH WITH SOME NOVELTIES! THIS IS HISTORIC, AN EMERITUS POPE PONTIFICATING IN THE MOST PAPAL WAY POSSIBLE AND A NOT SO VEILED CHALLENGE TO POPE FRANCIS' OPINIONS ON MARRIAGE
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Book Review – The Glory of the Crusades
• The Imaginative Conservative (Stephen Turley) >> Reimagining Race: Ferguson in the Shadow of Advent
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> Stone Walls Do Not Daunt the Immaculate Heart of Mary
• The TOF Spot (Michael Flynn) >> Something is not right. 
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> To Find True Love, Sexual Purity Is Very Very Important
• Unam Sanctam Catholicam (Noah Moerbeek) >> The Real Sword in the Stone and Real Penance
• Views From the Choir Loft (Andrew R. Motyka) >> Holy Days of Obligation: Immaculate Conception
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> They will come to thee and embrace thee