Morning Roundup - Greater Feria of Advent - Feria V infra Hebdomadam IV Adventus - December 22nd, 2011

• Archdiocese of Washington >> Paradoxes of Christmas (Msgr. Charles Pope)
• Catholic Herald Online >> Full text: The Pope’s address to the Roman Curia (Pope Benedict XVI)
• Chiesa.expressonline.it (Sandro Magister) >> The Temptation of Lot's Wife
• Crisis Magazine >> Shrugging Before the Manger (Russell Shaw)
• Crisis Magazine >> Christmas: the Infinite, and the Finite (George Weigel)
• DecentFilms.com >> Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Trailer
• Domine, da mihi hanc aquam! >> What is the Incarnation? (Repost)
  
• Edward Feser >> My Christmas gift to you…
  
• FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Call it Christ’s Mass and Let Best Buy Keep the Holiday (Russell E. Saltzman)
• First Thoughts >> The Contraceptive Mandate Yet Again (Joseph Knippenberg)
• First Thoughts >> Newt Gingrich and the Question of Forgiveness (Matthew J. Franck)
• Food for the Soul >> An Advent Prayer and Christmas Blessing (Fr. Leo Patalinghug)
• Godzdogz >> Waiting in Hope: O Rex Gentium
• JIMMY AKIN.ORG >> The Apologetics of Christmas (Part 2)
• Liturgia Latina >> 22nd December, O Rex gentium!
  
• Roma locuta est >> O Rex Gentium
• RORATE CÆLI >> Reminder: the one-day pre-Christmas fast
• Streets Of Gold >> The Magnificat
• The Catholic Thing >> Strangers in a Strange Land, Part Two (Anthony Esolen)
• The Chant Café >> A Bishop Who Really Get It
• The Path Less Taken >> For the love of dogs…
• V for Victory! >> December 21, 2011: Winter Solstice
• Whispers in the Loggia >> At Curial Christmas, Again, "The Crisis of the Church Is The Crisis of Faith": B16's "Year in Review"
• Word On Fire Blog >> Advent: John the Priest