Evening Roundup - Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major - August 5th, 2015

Transfiguration of the Lord - Missa 'Illuxerunt Coruscationes' - Commem.: SS. Sixtus II & Companions - August 6th, 2015 - Propers

• A Priest Life (Fr. Kevin Cusick) >> "Our Lady of the Snows": The story behind the "major", or greatest, Basilica dedicated to Our Lady in Rome
• Aleteia (Zoe Romanowsky) >> Video: Olympic Swimmer Katie Ledecky Breaks Her Own World Record and Takes the "Papal Pledge"
• Bonfire of the Vanities (Fr Martin Fox) >> Keeping up on the news
• Catholic Answers  (Patrick Coffin) >> Five Tips for Handling Criticism
• Catholic Sacristan (Warren Anderson) >> Hellbound
• Catholic Stand (Bob Drury) >> Fine Tuning and Existence: God or the Multiverse
• Catholic Stand  (Stacy Trasancos) >> Experiments on Intact Whole Live Fetuses and the Connection to Infant Formula
• Catholic Stand (Tammy Ruiz Ziegler, RN, CPLC) >> Truth: A Tool For Caring 
• Charlotte was Both (Amy Welborn) >> St. Mary Major and Blessed Frédéric Janssoone
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> Bible Proved Historically Accurate Once Again. Goliath's Gates Found
• Daily Meditations with Fr. Alfonse >> Mt 15:21-28 Having the Faith of Children, Not Dogs
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> 5 August: Our Lady of the Snows… Dedication of St. Mary Major
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Pope Francis’ General Audience on the divorced and remarried
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Prep Wednesday: All Bleeding Stops – Spiritual and Physical “Blow Out Kits”
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Bp. Kagan (D. Bismark): Statement on Boy Scouts decision on homosexuals
• JimmyAkin.Com >> Pope Francis on the Divorced and Remarried: 10 things to know and share
• New Liturgical Movement (Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.) >> Dominican Rite Sacramental Absolution Wallet Cards Available
• New Liturgical Movement (Gregory DiPippo) >> The Dedication of St Mary Major
• OnePeterFive (Dom Daniel Augustine Oppenheimer, CRNJ) >> Natural Law & Divine Revelation in Post-Obergefell America
• OnePeterFive (Steve Skojec) >> Archbishop Cupich’s Bizarre Moral Equivalency
• RORATE CÆLI (Peter Kwasniewski) >> Obergefell, the Treason of Catholics, and the Social Kingship of Christ
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Tattoos, Americans and the Jungle Drums
• Standing on My Head (Fr. Dwight Longenecker) >> Ross Douthat Lays Out the Evidence on Planned Parenthood
• The Cloistered Heart (Nancy Shuman) >> Auditioning For Sainthood
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> People who are divorced and remarried aren’t excommunicated? Really?
• The Imaginative Conservative (Edmund Burke) >> What is History?
• Watts Up With That? >> Obama’s climate policy is ‘practically worthless,’ says Dr. James Hansen