Morning News Roundup - Greater Feria of Advent - Feria Quinta infra Hebdomadam III Adventus - Missa 'Gaudéte' - December 17th, 2020

† Traditional Latin Mass Calendar - December 14th, 2020 to December 20th, 2020 - Ordo for the Week | Ember Week in Advent | Fourth Sunday of Advent

• American Thinker (Christopher Garbacz) >> Does Mike Pence want to save America?
• American Thinker (Frank Friday) >> How about an American realignment?
• American Thinker (Andrea Widburg) >> Maria Bartiromo drops the mother of all bombshells
• Arise! Let Us Be Going! (Fr. George David Byers) >> Homily: my penance for my Confession
• BIG C CATHOLICS >> The Baltimore Catechism Explained | Lesson 2: On God and His Perfections
• Canon Law Made Easy (Cathy Caridi, J.C.L.) >> Re-post: Confession and General Absolution
• CatholicCulture.Org - Liturgical Year >> Dec. 17 Thursday of the Third Week of Advent; St. Jose Manyanet, priest, Weekday
• Catholic Daily Readings.Org >> Catholic Daily Mass Readings for December 17 2020, Thursday of the Third Week of Advent – Daily Homily
• Catholic Exchange (Saints Editor) >> St. Olympias
• Catholic Journal (Fr. Joseph Esper) >> The Lord Has a Plan for Each of Us
• Catholic Stand (Kendra Von Esh) >> I Cannot Stop Sinning, So I Pray
• Catholic Stand (Larry Peterson) >> A Man, His Wife and Their Newborn Baby Are the Essence of Humility
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Father Seán Connolly) >> The forgotten history of Christian slavery under Islam
• Catholic World Report - Blog (Jim Graves) >> Cardinal Pell: Prison Journal is “a historic record and daily spiritual discipline”
• ChurchMilitant.com (Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò) >> Abp. Viganò‘s End-of-Year Meditation
• ChurchMilitant.com (The Vortex - Michael Voris, S.T.B.) >> Jesus & Joe
• Community in Mission (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> Advent Hymn: Rorate Caeli Desuper
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Michigan's AG: Son "Devastated" to be Wished "Merry Christmas."
• Crisis Magazine (Fr. Benedict Kiely) >> Dickens and America
• Crisis Magazine (Sean Fitzpatrick) >> Is It Enough to Be Conservative in America?
• Dominicana  (Br. Raymond La Grange, O.P.) >> Mightily and Sweetly
• Dymphna's Road >> We certainly do live in interesting times.
• Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment  (Fr. John Hunwicke) >> Alchemy and Hugs and Infantilising the Elderly
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> ADVENTCAzT 2020 19: “Come, to teach us the way of prudence!”
• Gatestone Institute - Articles (Khaled Abu Toameh) >> Iran's Plan to Topple Arab Leaders
• Integrated Catholic Life (Carmelite Sisters) >> December by Candlelight
• Just The News (Alan Nitzberg) >> Sen. Rand Paul during Wednesday Senate hearing: 'The election in many ways was stolen'
• Just The News (Susan Katz Keating) >> Russia has built up its military forces along border with Eastern Europe
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> While We're on the Subject of Nativitys, Here's My Favorite for 2020!
• LifeSiteNews (Lianne Laurence) >> Abby Johnson blasts USCCB for ‘cowering to Big Pharma’ on abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines
• man with black hat (David L. Alexander) >> Novena for the Christ-Mass: Day 2 (O Sapientia)
• Roman Catholic Man (Fr. Richard Heilman) >> The Democratic Party Has Been Infiltrated by Demonic Powers
• Settimo Cielo (Sandro Magister) >> Not Censure But Calculated Silence. A Letter From Argentina on the Pope and Abortion
• The Catholic Thing (Brad Miner) >> Death Isn’t a Person
• The +Ecu-Men+ >> Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
• The Imaginative Conservative (David Deavel) >> Climbing the Mountain of Education With John Henry Newman
• The New American (Luis Miguel) >> Report: Zuckerberg Spent Half a Billion Dollars to Increase Turnout in Democrat Strongholds
• Victor Davis Hanson | National Review >> Biden Should Beware of Nemesis
• Watts Up With That? (Eric Worrall) >> The End of Big Cities? The Hill Blames Coronavirus for the Exodus