Morning Roundup - Pentecost Monday - Missa 'Cibavit Eos' - May 25th, 2015 (Memorial Day USA)

• Aleteia >> What It's Like to Die, According to an ICU Nurse
• Aleteia (Zoe Romanowsky) >> Video: The Power and Beauty of Priestly Ordination
• Aleteia (Joseph Bottum) >> The Attack on the Family
• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Freedom Is Not Free; It Is Costly – A Memorial Day Recollection
• Catholic Answers  (Karl Keating) >> Was Job's Behemoth a Dinosaur?
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Mary O'Regan) >> The Irish Church’s failures have caused its people to choose secularism over faith
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Cindy Wooden) >> The devil knows Christians are one, says Pope Francis
• Catholic Stand (H. L. Duncan) >> I Complain, Therefore I Am
• Catholic Stand (Bob Kurland) >> The Theology of Science-Fiction: III — Does Data Have a Soul?
• Crisis Magazine (Richard Becker) >> Parental Guidance and Offensive Movie Favorites
• Crisis Magazine (James Matthew Wilson) >> The Joyful Death of Catholic Ireland
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> St. Bede the Venerable: Father of English History
• Dominicana Journal (Br. Justin Mary Bolger, O.P.) >> Two Days, One Night
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Variis linguis loquebantur Apostoli
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Communion Procession in a new Dark Age (3)   ("...Well, we all know what happened in the twentieth century. Divorce got its toe in the door ... and within decades the door was wide open. Unnatural and disordered sexual practices corrupted Marriage. Fornication gradually ceased to be furtive and, after being 'Free love' in the 1930s, had by the end of the century become the natural assumption of Western societies. Homosexuals ... no; some homosexuals ... ceased to enjoy inhabiting an amusing subculture and became aggressive public ideologues. The mortal sin of missing Mass without good cause ceased to be a matter of guilt. You know all this, and much more... My analysis, and suggestion, is this. Society has in effect regressed to the superficially christianised state it was in during the 'Dark Ages'. We are, in other words, in a new Dark Age of widespread unrepented mortal sin. In fact, ours is an even darker age, because people do not even accept that they are in a state of sin, and do not repent, not even once a year. Nor, probably, even when they die...")
• Fr Ray Blake's Blog >> I blame the Bolognese
• In the Light of the Law (Dr. Edward Peters) >> The Irish referendum: personal implications for Catholics’ public actions
• MondayVatican (Andrea Gagliarducci) >> The real Pope Francis and his real enemies
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Memorial Day
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Event: September 2014 - Pilgrimage in Spain with Daily Traditional Mass
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Event: FSSP Ordinations in North America - Live Broadcast on Saturday, May 30
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Radicati Editorial: The Martyrs were never for dialogue
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> A LOSS OF CATHOLIC FAITH IN IRELAND: TWO PERSPECTIVES
• The Catholic Thing (Fr. C. John McCloskey) >> A 21st Century Tragedy
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> Ireland’s 40-Percent Solution
• The Catholic Thing (Emily Rolwes) >> The end of Catholic Ireland
• The Foundry (James Carafano) >> This World War II Soldier’s Story Reminds Us of Why Memorial Day Matters
• The Imaginative Conservative (Stephen Klugewicz) >> In Defense of the American Military
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> A Gift for Each Day

Memorial Day 2015