Morning News Roundup - St. Damasus I, Pope & Confessor - Commemoration: Feria of Advent - December 11th, 2019

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 9th, 2019 to December 15th, 2019 - Ordo for the Week - Season of Advent

• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Dec. 11 Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent; Optional Memorial of St. Damasus I, pope, Opt. Mem.
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> Pope St. Damasus I
• Catholic Exchange (David La Mar) >> This Little Advent Light of Mine
• Catholic Exchange (Jeannie Ewing) >> Let Your Prayers Lead to Good Works
• Catholic Exchange (Deacon Thomas A. Moses) >> Where Would the Faith of the Blind Man Lead Us?
• Catholic Journal (Fr. Joseph Esper) >> Renewing our Commitment to Christ
• Catholic Stand (Guest Contributor) >> From Avoiding Pain to Embracing Faith and Motherhood
• Catholic World Report - Blog (James Kalb) >> A Course Reversal? On R.R. Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Fiorella Nash) >> The battle for truth in Saint Paul’s beleaguered island
• ChurchMilitant.com (The Vortex - Michael Voris, S.T.B.) >> Downsizing
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Damasus, Pope and Martyr
• Clutching My Rosary >> Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent
• CNA Daily News (Perry West) >> Franciscan University forms partnership with Iraqi Catholic university
• CNA Daily News (Ed Condon) >> Vatican’s investment manager backed company that ‘misled investors’
• CNA Daily News (Matt Hadro) >> DC basilica attack leaves 'Mary's Shrine' shaken, and at prayer
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> China punishes families of those who speak out in America, Congress hears
• CNA Daily News (CNA) >> Sainthood cause advances for religious sister, educator who fought racism
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Modern Problems File: Losing God as the Center of Our Worship
• Crisis Magazine (Anthony Esolen) >> What We’ve Lost in Translation   (Must Read!)
• Crisis Magazine (Sean Fitzpatrick) >> Meet the New Smut, Worse Than the Old Smut
• Dominicana (Br. Bertrand Hebert, O.P.) >> New Clothes for Christmas
• Dominicana  (Br. Luke VanBerkum, O.P.) >> The Music of Recreation
• Dominicana  (Br. Raymond La Grange, O.P.) >> The Prophetess of Siena
• Fr. Kevin Estabrook >> 2nd Week of Advent 2019 - Wednesday - Faith in the One True God
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> The Old Munster Circuit is alive and well
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2019 11: Tabernacling Himself in His own creation.
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> VIDEO: @BishopHying of @MadisonDiocese in Rome for the ad limina visit 1 & 2
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: Alphonse Matt, publisher of The Wanderer – R.I.P.
• LifeSiteNews (John-Henry Westen Show) >> The real reason why Nancy Pelosi is a pro-abortion ‘Catholic’? Radical nuns
• LifeSiteNews (Jack Hellner) >> If the climate crisis were real, environmentalists wouldn’t have to change its name
• LifeSiteNews (Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.) >> Jesus is not just one of many saviors. He is the only, and we all need Him
• LifeSiteNews (Dorothy Cummings McLean) >> Chinese communist govt raids Christian church during Sunday service, expels worshipers
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Father John P. Cush) >> St. Irenaeus — A Martyr, But Not Yet a Doctor of the Church
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Fr. Roger Landry) >> Brother James Miller, America’s Newest Blessed
• New Liturgical Movement (Unknown) >> Rorate Mass this Saturday in Tiverton, Rhode Island  (Editor: Add St. Alphonsus Shrine in Baltimore, Maryland)
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  Ordination at Clear Creek Abbey 
• +Pseudoclasm+ >> December 11 – St Damasus, Pope & Martyr
• Roma Locuta Est (Steven O'Reilly) >> Don’t let perfection be the enemy of an Imperfect Council 
• RORATE CÆLI (Peter Kwasniewski) >> Back in Print: Cardinal Billot’s Liberalism: A Critique of Its Basic Principles and Its Various Forms in a Newly Revised Translation
• Settimo Cielo (Sandro Magister) >> Conclave Rehearsals. The Next Pope Will Take His Name From Sant’Egidio
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> PopeWatch: Christless
• The Catholic Thing (David G. Bonagura, Jr.) >> “The Spirit of the Liturgy” at Twenty
• The Curt Jester (Jeffrey Miller) >> Salus animarum