Morning Roundup - Ember Saturday - Commemoration: St. Thomas of Villanova, Bp. & Conf. - September 22nd, 2018

† 18th Sunday after Pentecost - Dominica Decima Octava Post Pentecosten - Missa 'Da Pacem Dómine' - September 23rd, 2018 - Propers
† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - September 17th, 2018 to September 23rd, 2018 - Ordo for the Week

• Big Pulpit >> SATVRDAY EDITION
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Catholic News Service) >> #WhyImCatholic movement shares hope at difficult time for Church
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Jonathan Luxmoore) >> Newspaper ‘republished old news’ on abuse, Dutch bishops say
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Nick Hallett) >> Der Spiegel heavily criticises Francis’s papacy in 19-page report
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Fr Raymond de Souza) >> The Benedict XVI speech that everyone missed 
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Michael Davis) >> Who wants to be a bishop – after McCarrick?
• CatholicHerald.co.uk (Staff Reporter) >> Vatican and China sign ‘provisional agreement’ on bishops
• Catholic Stand (Jeffrey Stevens) >> Do You Know When It’s Time To Surrender?
• Catholic Stand (Sarah Carey) >> Sunday: A Day of Rest in an Unstopping World
• Catholic World Report - Blog (CNA Daily News) >> Michigan announces investigation into seven Catholic dioceses
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Filip Mazurczak) >> Pope Francis to visit Baltic republics, the land of Europe’s last pagans
• Catholic World Report - Blog (CNA Daily News) >> Mexican bishops call for solidarity with flood victims in Sinaloa
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Thomas of Villanova, Bishop and Confessor
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Seeing Beyond Appearances
• Cosmos + Sun (Fr. Mark White) >> Lesson in Real Humility
• CRUX (Elise Harris) >> Vatican signs potentially historic deal with China on bishops
• CRUX (John L. Allen Jr.) >> Three quick take-aways on the Vatican’s deal with China
• First Things (John Murdock) >> The Kavanaugh Conundrum
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Limericks
• Fr. Dwight Longenecker >> Pope Francis: Another Fine Mess!
• GetReligion (Terry Mattingly) >> Beyond 'administrative' affairs: Do bishops realize that anger in pews puts them in crosshairs?
• Lectio Divina Notes (Kate Edwards, Benedictine Office) >> Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost/Fourth Sunday of September
• LifeSiteNews (Maike Hickson) >> Prominent German magazine releases report on Pope Francis’ failures, especially in abuse crisis
• LifeSiteNews (Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent) >> Dutch bishop pulls out of Youth Synod: ‘The whole thing will lack credibility’
• LifeSiteNews (Lianne Laurence) >> Top Vatican cardinal rebukes critics of China deal: ‘No need to be drastic’
• OnePeterFive (Julian Kwasniewski) >> Bishop Schneider on Chastity vs. a Society ‘Becoming Ever More Cruel’
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> Gear Up for the Long Fight: It’s Time to Press the Attack
• Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter - The Missive >> FSSP Priest Interviewed on EWTN
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> For the Record: Holy See announces agreement on Bishop nomination with People's Republic of China
• The Catholic Thing (Carrie Gress) >> A Theology of Home
• The Wanderer Newspaper (Joseph Matt) >> Chair of Peter Remains Silent . . . U.S. Bishops Issue New Guidelines