Morning Roundup - 5th Day in the Octave of Christmas - Commem.: St. Thomas Becket, Bp. & Mm. - December 29th, 2017

Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 25th, 2017 to December 31st, 2017 - Ordo for the Week

• BIG C CATHOLICS (Matthew Coffin) >> Flannery O’Connor on the Glorified Body
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Pope tells Cardinal Maradiaga: I am sorry for the evil they have done against you
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> St Thomas Becket: the martyr who defended the Church against the state
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (David V Barrett) >> Parishoners ‘heartbroken’ after bishop announces church closure days before Christmas
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Associated Press) >> Multiple deaths in attack on Coptic church in Egypt
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Michael Davis) >> The Christmas message: not commercial enough for Washington
• Catholic Stand (Guy McClung) >> Two Sons, One Father
• Catholic Stand (Bob Kurland) >> Christmas: A Bad Time for Alcoholics and Addicts?
• Clutching My Rosary >> St. Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Martyr
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Who Were the Magi?
• Crisis Magazine (Lionel Yaceczko) >> Pope Francis is Only Partly Right on the Lord’s Prayer
• Crisis Magazine (Paul Ferguson) >> What the Failure of Russian Liberalism Means for Us
• DCLatinMass.Com (rockcreekcatholic) >> D.C. St. Francis de Sales sets Vespers for New Year’s Eve
• Dominicana Journal  (Br. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.) >> The Place He Has Chosen
• First Things (R.R. Reno) >> 2018, Here We Come!
• First Things (Peter J. Leithart) >> Things Fall Apart 
• First Things (P.J. Smith) >> The Curial Sidelines
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> "Almost Infallible" ... an old Irish joke?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Warning: you might not get through it dry-eyed
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> CHRISTMASCAzT 2017 27: WAKE UP!
• Happy Catholic* (Julie D.) >> Fifth Day of Christmas: Optional Memorial of St. Thomas Becket
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards) >> Sixth Day in the Octave of the Nativity
• LMS Chairman (Joseph Shaw) >> Can good Catholics criticise the Pope?
• New Liturgical Movement (Peter Kwasniewski) >> Christmas Homily of Canon Francis Altiere
• Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter - The Missive >> Incredible Video from St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips
• Releasing the Arrow (Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.) >> HOMILY for 29th December The Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury
• Roman Catholic Man (Fr. Richard Heilman) >> Green Scapular Touched to Relic of True Cross for the Conversion of Your Loved Ones 
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> BECKET - "This is the sign of the Church always: The Sign of Blood."
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Saint Thomas Becket, Sin and Contrition
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Keep Christ in Christmas
• The Catholic Thing (David Carlin) >> The Curious Progressive Love of Islam
• The Imaginative Conservative (John Horvat) >> My New Year’s Resolution: Keep Sundays Internet-Free