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[Catholic Caucus] Why Ecclesia Dei Communities Should Avoid Concelebrating the Chrism Mass: A Response to Michael Charlier The following article was first published at OnePeterFive and is reprinted here with permission.—PAKIn the news cycle recently there has been much coverage of Pope Francis’s statement to a group of French bishops that all priests in a diocese, regardless of affiliation, should be present to concelebrate the Chrism Mass with their bishop each year (see this article). As a result, the ever-simmering question of concelebration has once more come to a boil.Respected German traditionalist Michael Charlier wrote an article (translated at...

When reading the Ecclesiastical History of Hermias Sozomen—a work written immediately before the Council of Chalcedon when the universal Church was roiled by a variety of heresies—one picks up the venerable author’s animus for innovation. Indeed, Book IV, Chapter 27 begins with the following passage: When the spirit of innovation becomes regarded with popular favor, it is scarcely possible to arrest its progress. Inflated as it always is with arrogance, it contemns the institutions of the Fathers, and enacts laws of its own. It even despises the theological doctrines of antiquity, and seeks out zealously a new form of religion...

A Des Moines pizzeria is offering more of a good thing. Dough Co. Pizza said it will release a new specialty pizza of the month called the “Doughble Decker” pizza. It’s a 26-inch pizza topped with seven 8-inch pepperoni pizzas. “When we think about what we do best, it’s pizza. It’s our best-selling product and people love it,” said Dough Co. Pizza co-owner Alec Davis. “When we were considering a specialty pizza for April, we thought we should double down on pizza so that’s why we’re offering the Dough Co. Doughble Decker Pizza on April 1!” Dough Co. is located...

Double-barrel 1911 lands ATF approval, importation to begin next year The ATF has given Arsenal the green light to import their double-barreled, double-everything 1911. Arsenal turned a lot of heads a few months back when they announced their truly unique handgun, the AF2011-A1, but many assumed that the gun would never wind up for sale in the U.S., because it fires two cartridges with one pull of the trigger, making it a machine gun according to federal law. Arsenal maintained that their double trigger design, and matching pair of sears and hammers, would not raise the hackles of the gatekeepers...

British makers Paladone have styled a line of cleaning products after carricatures of Dianna Ross and other black soul singers much to the chagrin of campaigners who feel the products are racially offensive. It is the hair of the cleaning products that acts as a brillo-pad that have civil rights groups furious.

Mitt Romney supporter Ann Coulter appeared on the ABC News Sunday show, “This Week,” hosted by former Clintonite George Stephanopoulos. Asked about Romney’s potential vice presidential picks, she said this (while seated at a table with former green jobs czar Van Jones, who served under the Biggest Novelty Candidate of Them All, Barack Obama): Ann Coulter: “You can’t have a novelty candidate, I think. That would ring too much like Sarah Palin. I agree with George Will that it be good to have little tea party excitement, and the odds-on favorite, I mean, certainly the betting is on Marco Rubio,...

TAMPA, Fla. (June 3) - Capt. Sam Gibbons knew his mission was in trouble when he hit the ground in the early hours of the D-Day invasion 63 years ago. The future congressman's 101st Airborne troops were scattered far from their intended drop zone. And the only nearby soldiers he could see where German. "People are always talking about behind enemy lines. Hell, there ain't no lines in combat," said Gibbons, who was 24 when he parachuted into Normandy on June 6, 1944. "We jumped right on top of the Germans." On the ground, in the dark, the scattered American...

This site details high-quality close-up photos of their realistic Barak Obama doll line. With accessories, doll can be configured as gangster, rapper, or more fantastic roles, like rigorous intellectual. A smaller, kool-aid drinking fan (or DC journlists) could feature the dolls as experienced, inspiring leader with concrete plans. The photos are not to be missed, would provide good Obama spoof fodder for future critical articles, parodies, etc.

In what appears to be its latest capitulation to worldly wisdom, the Vatican apparatus now assumes (contrary to the teaching of Pius XII in Humanae Generis) that the evolution of men from animals is a proven fact. On June 24, 2004 Zenit.org reported that "Vatican Observatory has convoked a range of experts to reflect on a question that at times seems to be forgotten in scientific research: Is there purpose in evolution?" That is, evolution is now assumed to have occurred, and the only debate is over whether it has a purpose. The Vatican called a symposium of experts to...

The Humanism of John Paul II: Humanism and Novelty Once again our topic under discussion is Pope John Paul II's apparent obsession with "human dignity." Already in my series on "Vatican II and the Gospel of Man," I quoted numerous statements made by the current Pope that were confusing at best and outright heretical and dangerous at worst. First, let us look at something the Pope said in his homily on November 24, 1985: "The Council [Vatican II], which has given us a rich ecclesiological doctrine, has organically linked its teaching about the Church with its teaching about man's vocation...

<p>The novelty has worn off; he is in this for real.</p> <p>The message of Kirt Bennett, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, was clear during a campaign stop Friday at P.J.'s Coffee and Tea Co.</p> <p>"What I like is that, as a black Republican candidate for this office, there, at first, was focus on this being a novelty (campaign). But I think the focus has shifted to the issues." Bennett said. "The novelty was not going to win this election."</p>