Morning News Roundup - Sabbato infra Hebdomadam II Adventus - December 14th, 2019

† Third Sunday of Advent (Gaudéte Sunday) - Dominica Tertia Adventus - Missa 'Gaudéte' - December 15th, 2019 - Propers
† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 9th, 2019 to December 15th, 2019 - Ordo for the Week - Season of Advent

• Adult Catechesis in the Roman Catholic Tradition >> Rapture?
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Pope Francis and my “rabbit” mom
• Atonement Online (Fr. Christopher George Phillips) >> St. John of the Cross
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Dec. 14 Memorial of St. John of the Cross, priest and doctor, Memorial
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. John of the Cross
• Catholic Journal (Fr. Dino Vanin) >> God’s Brand of Happiness
• Catholic Stand (Gene Van Son) >> Reflecting on Advent, Christmas, and Midnight Mass
• Catholic Stand (Anthony S. Layne) >> The Minimalist Movement and Christian Detachment
• Catholic World Report - Blog (John F. Kippley) >> McCarrick and theological dissent in the Sixties: Observations of a contemporary
• ChurchMilitant.com (Paul Murano) >> Feminists Demand ‘Equality’ From German Bishops
• ChurchMilitant.com (Rodney Pelletier) >> Pope: Mary as Co-Redemptrix Is ‘Foolishness’
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
• CNA Daily News (Hannah Brockhaus) >> ‘A Hidden Life’ brings story of Bl. Franz Jaggerstatter and his wife to the big screen
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> For Gaza Christians, no Christmas travels to Bethlehem and Jerusalem
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> New Jersey bishop opposes contraception bill removing religious exemption
• CNA Daily News (Mary Farrow) >> Did ‘thousands’ of women die from illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade? WaPo says no
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> A Higher Love as Seen in a Commercial
• Edward Feser >>  Brungardt on Aristotle’s Revenge
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> ORDO??
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2019 14: Guard the Faith from assault
• IN LUMINE FIDEI (Rita Bogna) >> 15 DECEMBER – THIRD (GAUDETE) SUNDAY OF ADVENT
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Insanity at the Vatican: Will It Ever End?
• LifeSiteNews (Paul Smeaton) >> New evidence shows deceitful methods Vatican officials used to launder millions of euros
• LifeSiteNews (Martin M. Barillas) >> Catholics surround Peru church with prayer as feminist mob threatens desecration
• LifeSiteNews (Dorothy Cummings McLean) >> Cardinal: Climate change activist Greta Thunberg ‘great witness’ to Church teaching
• LifeSiteNews (Stefano Gennarini, J.D.) >> US ambassador threatens to pull foreign aid unless Zambia embraces sodomy
• LifeSiteNews (Kevin Wells) >> Priests who disdain Mary discredit their priesthood
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  New ICKSP Church in Belfast, N. Ireland
• Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter - The Missive >> Archbishop Etienne Blesses FSSP Seattle’s New Church
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
• Releasing the Arrow (Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P.) >> In the cold and darkness of our lives and world, we huddle...
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: Jolly Old Former Saint Nicholas
• The Catholic Thing (William Kilpatrick) >> Pius XII, Francis, and the Media