Morning Roundup - Ember Friday of Lent - Commem: St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - February 27th, 2015

• Aleteia >> Pope Invites Artist Who Wrote Him A Letter to Be Baptized at Easter in St. Peter's
• Aleteia (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Medieval Monk's 12 Steps of Sinful Pride
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Down with the Struggle or Up with the Cross? A Word to Priests, Catechists, and Parents
• Catholic Answers  (Tim Staples) >> What is Heaven?
• Catholic Conclave (Christopher Gillibrand) >> Cardinal blames social media for changing church doctrine
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Ed West) >> Jihadi John has lived a life of privilege compared to ISIS’s victims 
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Priest who led fight against clerical abuse named Archbishop of Malta
• Catholic Sacristan (Warren Anderson) >> A meditation on the Apostles' Creed.
• Catholic Stand  (Melanie Jean Juneau) >> Lent: Experiencing the Reality of Purgatory
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> Father Theodore Hesburgh dies at 97 
• Communio (Paul Zalonski) >> Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Heh. This is What Happens When the South Gets Snow
• Crisis Magazine (Katy Faust) >> A Child of Gay Parents Writes to Justice Kennedy
• Crisis Magazine (Austin Ruse) >> We are Israel
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Gabriel Possenti
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Joachim Kenney, O.P.) >> The Virtues of Lent
• Dymphna's Road >> After the Wedding
• First Thoughts (Mark Movsesian) >> The Newest Doctor of the Church
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Job Sharing?
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> We should all avoid stereotypes. The Holy...
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Look! DOWN from the sky!
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Barbarians
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> LENTCAzT 10: Ember Friday of the 1st Week of Lent
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> How US school lunches now compare to other countries
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> A Message in Blood: ISIS and the Meaning of the Cross
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> John 10: 19-42
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Does Anybody Care about the Christian Hostages and Refugees Fleeing Syria?
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> Cardinal Marx declares German Church independent of Rome
• National Catholic Register Daily Blog >> Faith vs. Fashion: Muslim Woman Spars with Abercrombie in Major Court Case
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> The Theology of the Offertory - Series to Resume
• OnePeterFive (Peter Lyons) >> Learning the Priesthood: The Role of Altar Service in Vocational Discernment
• Pursued by Truth >> Stations of the Cross for Persecuted Christians by Maronite Bishop of Syria
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> MOST PRIESTS MY AGE AND OLDER ACCEPTED THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE MASS IN THE NEW ROMAN MISSAL OF 1970 AND IT CONTINUED TO BE TAUGHT IN SEMINARIES DESPITE THE FACT THE MORE ORTHODOX TRUTH HAD BEEN INSERTED IN A LATER EDITION OF THE 1970 MISSAL!
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Do You Enjoy Being Miserable?
• The Catholic League >> NEW YORK TIMES ADMITS FETUS IS HUMAN
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> Pastoral Strategies in a News-Cycle Age 
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> Local media on transgendered “Catholic” wedding
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Notre Dame’s Rev. Theodore Hesburgh dies
• The Imaginative Conservative (Peter Lawler) >> Those Nasty Aristocrats: Why We Should Be More Like Them
• The Imaginative Conservative (Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg) >> On the Killing of Innocents
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Fr. Peter Carota) >> Bible Reading For Lent, Ember Friday
• Views From the Choir Loft (Jeff Ostrowski) >> Musical Resources • 2nd Sunday of Lent
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> What has God got to do with fasting?