Morning Roundup - Feria Secunda infra Hebdomadam XIX post Octavam Pentecostes Or SS. Placid & Companions, Martyrs - October 5th, 2015

• Aleteia (Elizabeth Duffy) >> The Most Intimate Encounter: Called to Consummation
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Xavier Rynne II) >> Letters from the Synod: October 5, 2015
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> ISIS destroys 2,000-year-old triumphal arch in Palmyra
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> US states will be able to defund Planned Parenthood
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Full text: Pope Francis’s address to opening session of synod
• Catholic Sacristan (Isten Joe) >> Convert family harassed... in England.
• Catholic Stand (Autumn Jones) >> The Importance of Showing Up
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Placid and His Companions, Martyrs 
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> An Open Letter to Pope Francis’ Detractors
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Things We Can Learn from Cats and Dogs
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Pelosi Asked If Unborn are Human, Kinda' Freaks.
• Crisis Magazine (Mitchell Kalpakgian) >> Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “As Kingfishers Catch Fire”
• Crisis Magazine (Tom Gourlay) >> Don’t Ignore Scripture on the Marriage Questions
• Crisis Magazine (James Kalb) >> On Resistance: What are the Options?
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the Day: Faustina Kowalska
• Dominicana Journal  (Br. Augustine Marogi, O.P.)  >> Understanding Rachel
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Greek Lesson ... and is there a homosexualist Mafia at the Synod?
• Homiletic & Pastoral Review - Articles (Jim Lundholm-Eades) >> Twelve Lessons about the Financial Future of Catholic Schools
• Homiletic & Pastoral Review - Articles (Fr. Richard Gribble, CSC) >> Catholic Higher Education: Ministry of the Head and Heart
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> Cardinal Kasper resorts to the "F" word in addressing critics
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl E. Olson) >> The Mystery of Creation and the Sacrament of Marriage
• Liturgia Latina (David Forster) >> 5th October, St Placid and his companions, Martyrs
• MondayVatican (Andrea Gagliarducci) >> Pope Francis and Synod 2015: A “Humanae Vitae Effect” in the Offing?
• One Mad Mom >> There Was a Church Who Had a Priest and Ego Was His Name-o…
• RORATE CÆLI (Sacerdos Romanus) >> Archbishop Gänswein’s Thinly Veiled Critique of the German Bishops
• RORATE CÆLI (Sacerdos Romanus) >> Places Still Available at the Dignitatis Humanae Colloquium in Norcia
• Sacred Ground And Sticky Floors (Jami Amerine) >> 31 Days Stuff I Wish You’d Stop Saying: Day 5 “I watch you sleep…”
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> WAS POPE FRANCIS' USA TRIP HIS PALM SUNDAY LEADING HIM TO A QUICK GOOD FRIDAY?
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Is Comedy Divine?
• The Catholic Thing (Robert Royal) >> Five Guiding Principles for the Synod
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Fired New Jersey gay priest: Change has to come from the people
• The Papist (Emerald D) >> Why Shouldn’t Catholics Read 50 Shades of Grey?
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Jonathan Byrd) >> St. Placidus – October 5th
• Traditional Catholic Priest (Jonathan Byrd) >> Update on Fr. Carota
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> Correspondence on the Monastic Vocation 19
• Vultus Christi (Dom Mark Daniel Kirby) >> I saw them passing before Me
• What's Up With the Synod? >> Father P. explains it all to you: What is “adultery” and why is it bad?
• What's Up With the Synod? >> Ann Barnhardt Mailbag Q&A: “What Should I Do If There Is No Decent Parish Nearby?”
• What's Up With the Synod? >> Monday Roundup: because I’m just too damn busy to write about all this myself
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> In the Aula, It's Showtime