Evening News Roundup - Greater Feria of Advent - Missa 'Gaudéte' - December 19th, 2019

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 16th, 2019 to December 22nd, 2019 - Ordo for the Week - Season of Advent

• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Officer Mader style deescalation: two anecdotes including suicide by cop
• Canon Law Made Easy (Cathy Caridi, J.C.L.) >> Confession and General Absolution (Repost)
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Russell Shaw) >> The Rosary and Christmas
• ChurchMilitant.com (Stephen Wynne) >> Viganò Champions Virgin Mary After Pope Francis Smear
• ChurchMilitant.com (Martina Moyski) >> Trump Impeachment: Catholics Weigh In
• CNA Daily News (Courtney Mares) >> There were over 800 extremist attacks in West Africa in 2019
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >>  Pope Francis installs cross in Vatican for migrants who died in Mediterranean
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> Texas Right to Life fined for illegal funding of political ad
• Complete Christianity (Shane Schaetzel) >> An Open Letter to President Trump
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Not the Crib again?
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> VIDEO: Inside Notre-Dame de Paris since the fire, things that survived
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> GARUM WATCH! Ancient factory found in Israel
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 19 December – TRUEST Liberation Theology!
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: Irritating fundraisers during Mass
• Integrated Catholic Life (Editor) >> Daily Catholic Quote — O Radix Jesse
• LifeSiteNews (Diane Montagna) >> Abp Viganò defends Virgin Mary in response to new remarks by Pope
• LifeSiteNews (Peter Kwasniewski) >> How an elf and a wise woman in Tolkien’s Middle-earth described the Incarnation 
• LifeSiteNews (Jonathon Van Maren) >> Pro-LGBT JK Rowling under fire for offending transgender activists
• LifeSiteNews (LifeSiteNews.com) >> Supreme Court to decide if religious schools can choose their own religion teachers
• LifeSiteNews (Bishop Marian Eleganti) >> Swiss bishop: Why I oppose law criminalizing LGBT criticism and won’t be forced into silence
• Mahound's Paradise (Oakes Spalding) >> USCCB: Psst, we're Masons...But don't tell Michael or Steve.
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Edward Pentin) >> Cardinal Pell’s Christmas in Prison
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Father John P. Cush) >> Who is Saint Irenaeus of Lyons?
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Anna Abbott) >> Advent: The Other Penitential Season
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Early Medieval Reliquaries in Switzerland
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass Photopost 2019 (Part 1)
• OnePeterFive (Timothy Flanders) >> Even Hell Points to God’s Mercy
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> A Full Court Press for HomoChurch?
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> On Pontifical Biblical Commission document and homosexuality, better not to rush to judgment
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Good Guy Fed Ex Driver With A Gun