Morning Roundup - Feria of Paschaltide or St. John Before the Latin Gate - May 6th, 2015

• Aleteia (Caitlin Bootsma) >> Evangelium Vitae 20 Years Later: Abundant Life
• Aleteia (Diane Montagna) >> Pope Francis: "Husbands, Love your Wives as Christ Loves the Church"
• Aleteia (David Mills) >> We Could Use a Little Fire and Brimstone
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Counsel the Doubtful – A Meditation on the Third Spiritual Work of Mercy
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Madeleine Teahan) >> Cardinal Nichols to celebrate Mass for gay Catholics
• Catholic Stand (Jeffrey McLeod, PhD) >> The Edgy Poetry of our Newest Church Doctor
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> Synod. The German Bishops Are Putting the Cart Before the Horse
• Crisis Magazine (William Kilpatrick) >> Infantile Culture Empowers Mujahideen
• Crisis Magazine (Frank Kessler) >> Factors that Led to Bishop Finn’s Resignation
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Dominic Savio
• Dominicana Journal  (Br. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.) >> Mad Men
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> S John at the Latin Gate ... should it be a Double of the First Class?  ("...S John at the Latin Gate, a Prayer Book festival (also still to be found in the delightfully unreformed Calendar of the University of Oxford) long since abolished on the modern Roman Calendar, reappears today on the Calendar of the Ordinariate (disguised as S John in Eastertide)! Since you have probably been wondering why, and because I know you are discreet, I will let you into the secret. Just within these four walls. Are you sitting comfortably? Before the Ordinariates were canonically erected by the great, the erudite, the fabulous Benedict XVI, the Pope of Christian Unity, a group of us had a series of highly confidential meetings in catacumbis, or, to be more prosaic, in the Catholick Apostolick cellars of Gordon Square, guided by our Flying Bishops. Episcopopteryx Andrew Burnham decided to term these the 'Latin Gate' meetings, because the first of them took place on this day in 2010! So today, this very day, YES, is the glorious quinquennial celebration of the first synodos of that bold group, some of whom risked being bullied into premature resignation if their Anglican bishops had found out what they were up to (that is why the meetings had to be so secret). It celebrates the start of the process which led to those priests becoming the core of the founding presbyterate of the English Ordinariate. Imagine us as being rather like the courageous First Wave that stormed up the Normandy beaches in 1944! I think that we battle-scarred heroes, we noble Band of Brothers, the Class of 2010, ought to be given special medals to pin proudly onto our Black Scarves when we sally forth in our (rather threadbare) Anglican choir dress to the War Memorial on Remembrance Sundays for the annual singing of Abide with me...")
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> MISSA SICCA
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ACTION ITEM! “Officer Down!”
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Funeral for… what?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Priesthood ordinations up 24.7% this year
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Catholic World Report Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on Sacra Liturgia 2015 
• One Mad Mom >> Deep Thoughts from Fr. Richard
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> Liberation Theology: KGB Construct or “Real Theology”?
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Highlights of the German Bishops' Official Documents for the "Family Synod"
• Shameless Popery (Joe Heschmeyer) >> Aim at Mary, Hit Jesus
• The Catholic Thing (C S Lewis) >> To become a man of gentle heart
• The Catholic Thing (Fr. Mark A. Pilon) >> Morally, Ontologically, Just Plain Wrong
• The Cloistered Heart (Nancy Shuman) >> Who Needs It?
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> German Catholic Church sets new employee policy for divorced and remarried, same sex couples
• The Imaginative Conservative (Bradley J. Birzer) >> The Dystopian Vision of Aldous Huxley
• These Stone Walls (Fr. Gordon MacRae) >> My Turn: A Lesson From Damien, Leper Priest
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Novena to Saint Dymphna Begins Today