Morning Roundup - St. Augustine, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor - Commem.: St. Hermes, Martyr - August 28th, 2014

• Archdiocese of Washington (Msgr. Charles Pope) >> People Need People, As Seen at the Beach   ("In Washington we speak of going to the beach. But in nearby Baltimore they say, “ We’ re goin’ down-e-ocean.”  Editors Correction: Monsignor, in Baltimore people say, "We're goin' downey oshun, hon!")
• CatholicHerald.co.uk >> Pope Francis appoints Cardinal Cañizares as the new Archbishop of Valencia
• Coming Home (Gerard M. Nadal) >> The Truth About Many Parents Who Abort Their Down Syndrome Babies
• Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> I Nominate You to the Holy Water Challenge
• Creative Minority Report (Patrick Archbold) >> Gender-palooza
• Crisis Magazine (Sean Fitzpatrick) >> Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband: Adultery, Butchery, and Prophecy
• Crisis Magazine (Mark Regnerus) >> On the Sexual Attitudes of Christian Same-Sex Marriage Supporters
• Crisis Magazine (Tracey Rowland) >> Catholic Luminaries Pay Tribute to the Late Stratford Caldecott
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Saint of the day: Augustine
• Da Mihi Animas (Padre Steve) >> Beauty Will Save the World 
• Dominicana Blog (Br. Isaac Augustine Morales, O.P.) >> Memory and the Mystery of Providence
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> The popular pontificate of Pope Francis: two views
• Fr. Z's Blog (Fr. John Zuhlsdorf) >> Card. Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of CDW, transferred to Valenci
• Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog (Carl Olson) >> Prioress of Dominican Sisters in Iraq chronicles ISIS takeover, expresses fears and frustrations 
• JimmyAkin.Com >> St. Augustine: 10 things to know and share
• LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH (Mary Ann Kreitzer) >> Thoughts for the Day from St. Augustine
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> A New Fatima Secret?...
• RORATE CÆLI (New Catholic) >> Cañizares goes to Valencia, and his replacement at Divine Worship is...
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> POPE FRANCIS A TARGET OF ISIS?
• SOUTHERN ORDERS (Fr. Allan J. McDonald) >> AND NOW WE HOLD OUR BREATH! WILL THE CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP BE ABSORBED INTO ANOTHER CURIAL DICASTERY OR WILL THE SPIRIT OF VATICAN II LITURGICAL STYLES COME BACK WITH A VENGENCE?
• The Catholic Thing (Randall B. Smith) >> A Modest Proposal for Dying Religious Communities 
• The Chant Café (Kathleen Pluth) >> Let the Rumor Mills Begin
• The Curt Jester (Jeff Miller) >> On the Coyness of God
• The Deacon's Bench (Deacon Greg Kandra) >> Leading Italian bishop: Church must make “unconventional couples” feel at home
• The hermeneutic of continuity  (Fr. Tim Finigan) >> Holy confessors and martyrs of Iraq, pray for us
• The Imaginative Conservative (Sean Fitzpatrick) >> Is Ugly the New Beautiful?
• Views From the Choir Loft (Dr. Peter Kwasniewski) >> The Awesomeness of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
• Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palmo) >> Cae La Bomba – With Madrid and Valencia, Francis Plays "Spanish Roulette"
• With Good Reason (Fr. Thomas V. Berg) >> Catholics: Let’s Talk Jesus

Source: Creative Minority Report (Matthew Archbold) >> I Nominate You to the Holy Water Challenge