Morning Roundup - Feria of Paschaltide or Apparition of St. Michael or Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Graces - May 8th, 2015

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> It is the Decision of the Holy Spirit and Us – On the Council of Jerusalem and the Catholicity of the Early Church
• Bill Petro >> History of Mother’s Day
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Damian Cassidy) >> Millions of people wear the brown scapular thanks to this English mystic
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Vocations poster inspired by Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run
• Catholic Sacristan (Warren Anderson) >> A word to the German Episcopacy from an Authoritative Voice
• Catholic Stand (Anabelle Hazard) >> What Lurks Behind the Vaccine Mom Wars
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> No Thanks Commonweal, We've Already Got One
• Crisis Magazine (Lawrence Brazier) >> Forget the Money, ask St Anthony!
• Crisis Magazine  (James Kalb) >>  The New Evangelization Begins with Us
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Heather King: "The follower of Christ doesn't strive. The follower of Christ surrenders."
• DecentFilms.com (Steven D. Greydanus) >> The Sound of Music
• Dominicana Journal (Br. Hyacinth Grubb, O.P.) >> Sent at His Mother’s Request
• Eye of the Tiber >> Bishop Reassigns Diocese’s Only Fundamentally Solid Priest To Parish Of 300 People
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> In Apparitione S Michaelis
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> "Sacra Liturgia” Is Coming to New York City in June
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> The Pope, the Poet, and the Year of Mercy
• Mark Shea (NC Register) >> Why the Church Distinguishes Between Mortal and Venial Sin, Part I
• Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Friday, Fifth week of Easter: "I have called you friends" 
• Musings of a Pertinacious Papist >> An inevitable political trajectory
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE ARROGANCE OF LIBERALISM IN THE CHURCH
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> THE DICTATORSHIP OF ARROGANT, SELF-SERVING, POLITICIZED PROSECUTORS--PURE AND SIMPLE
• The Catholic Thing (Confucius) >> Government, proper names, people
• The Catholic Thing (Daniel McInerny) >> Make Marriage Sexy
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> When the Pope calls 
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Out-of-wedlock births falling: “People are just not having the kids”
• The Imaginative Conservative (Stephen Klugewicz) >> A Guilty Pleasure: Orff’s “Carmina Burana”
• Watts Up With That? >> Solar Cycle Update  ("...another solar physicist, Mark Giampapa of the National Solar Observatory in Tuscon, Arizona, is of the opinion that “we are heading into a Maunder Minimum” that could last until 2080...")