Morning News Roundup - Vigil of the Ascension - Commemoration: St. Bernardine of Siena, Confessor Or Rogation Mass - May 20th, 2020

† The Ascension of Our Lord - In Ascensione Domini - Missa 'Viri Galilæi' - May 21st, 2020 - Propers
† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - May 18th, 2020 to May 24th, 2020 - Ordo for the Week - Paschaltide - Ascensiontide

• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> Planned Parenthood affiliates improperly applied for, received $80 million in coronavirus stimulus funds, feds say
• Atonement Online (Fr. Christopher George Phillips) >> St. Bernardine of Siena
• CatholicCulture.Org - Commentary (Phil Lawler) >> Improving the odds for an ethical vaccine
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> May. 20 Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter; Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, priest, Opt. Mem.
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. Bernardine of Siena (Priest)
• Catholic Exchange (Alfred Hanley) >> Is COVID-19 a Chastisement? Ask Mary
• Catholic Exchange (Alan Scott) >> Finding God in the Mess
• Catholic Stand (Tom Collingwood) >> Coversion is is a Spiritual, Cognitive, and Physical Journey
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah) >> “Walking towards the barking dogs”: On the martyrdom of Michael Nnadi
• Catholic World Report - Blog (George Weigel) >> Games intellectuals play
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD) >> What Wrong with an Amazonian Rite?
• ChurchMilitant.com (Church Militant: Reports) >> Brave Priest Denounces Cowardly Bishops
• ChurchMilitant.com (The Vortex - Michael Voris, S.T.B.) >> Arrest Bill Gates
• ChurchPOP (Editor) >> New Film Says Norma McCorvey Pretended to be Pro-Life for Money, Fr. Pavone Contradicts Claim
• City Journal (Michael Gibson, Brian C. Anderson) >> Farewell, San Francisco
• Clutching My Rosary >> Saint Bernardin of Sienna, Confessor
• Clutching My Rosary >> Vigil of the Ascension; Wednesday of the Rogation Days
• CNA Daily News (JD Flynn) >> The 'painful journey' of Jane Roe and the pro-life movement
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Sinful Curiosity is the Root of Many Sins
• Crisis Magazine (Chilton Williamson, Jr.) >> Who Was Jesus of Nazareth?
• Crisis Magazine (James O. Breen) >> The Cure for Coronavirus Is Not More Government
• Dominicana (Br. Elijah Dubek, O.P.) >> Predestination: Living the Mystery
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> A bit messy?
• Fr. Dwight Longenecker >> Cannibals or Christians
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ASK FATHER: “Why aren’t Masses restarted without Holy Communion?”
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> How Do You Treat Holy Things? Are Sacramentals a Prop for a Comic Strip?
• LifeSiteNews (Maike Hickson) >> Catholic political scientist: We must be ‘vigilant’ against New World Order post-COVID
• LifeSiteNews (William Kilpatrick) >> Western media downplay, ignore Islam’s violent reactions to ‘blasphemy’
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Susan Brinkmann) >> Beware of So-Called ‘Church Approved’ Coronavirus Prevention
• National Catholic Register Bloggers (Joseph Pearce) >> What is Wrong
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >>  A Young Catholic Discovers the Old Holy Week
• OnePeterFive (Eric Sammons) >> Accepted, Not Elected: The Curious Case of Pope Boniface II
• On This Rock (Fr. John Hollowell) >> "Read the Bible in a Year" Podcast, Day 38: Leviticus 5-7
• The American Catholic (Donald R. McClarey) >> Mercenary?
• The Catholic Thing (Randall Smith) >> Will Everything Be Different Now?
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> May 20 – St Bernardine of Siena, Confessor
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> Rogation Days: Wednesday (Ascension Eve)
• Unam Sanctam Catholicam (Boniface) >> New Normal: Subjectifying the Sunday Obligation