Green Chile Corn Cheese Dip

2 slabs of cream cheese
8 oz. slab of pepperjack cheese
6 oz. package of cojita Mexican cheese
1 small can roasted green chiles, hot or mild to your taste (or about half a jar of 505 Hatch Green Chile sauce).
1 poblano (also called pasilla) pepper, finely diced
1/2 jalapeno (more or less to your heat tolerance) finely diced
2 ears of corn
1/2 bunch of cilantro finely chopped
1 tablespoon Tajin spice mix
1/4 onion finely diced

Lightly oil, salt and roast the corn at 450 until it looks "roasted" (even better do it on a grill). Put the chopped poblano, jalapeno and onion in a pan and roast it until tender in the same oven (it'll take less time than the corn). If you don't have fresh corn, you can probably use canned or frozen corn, drain the liquid and spread the corn on an oiled baking sheet, salt it and roast it.

Meanwhile, put the cream cheese, pepper jack and cojita in a 9"x9" pan, roughly break it up and spread it around in the bottom, sprinkle it with the Tajin, cilantro and canned chiles.

When the peppers and corn are done, strip the corn off the cob, sprinkle it and the roasted peppers/onions on top of the cheese mix. Cover with foil, bake in a 325 oven for about 45 minutes until the cheese is melted and you can stir it all together.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Council of Chalcedon Canon 21: "Clergymen and laymen bringing charges against bishops or clergymen are not to be received loosely and without examination, as accusers, but their own character shall first be investigated."

Let no one do anything that has to do with the church without the bishop. Only that Eucharist which is under the authority of the bishop (or whomever he himself designates) is to be considered valid. Wherever the bishop appears, there let the congregation be, just as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the catholic church. It is not permissible either to baptize or to hold a love feast without the bishop. But whatever he approves is also pleasing to God, in order that everything you do may be trustworthy and valid (To the Smyrnaeans 8:1b -2, from "The Apostolic Fathers," 2nd edition, trans. J. B. Lightfoot and J. R. Harmer, ed Michael W. Holmes, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1989) p. 112f).

-St. Ignatius of Antioch

Ordinary Magisterium is the perennial teaching of the Pope and the Bishops in union with him around the world. To capriciously say that only extraordinary Magisterium dogmas are infallible is false and heretical. Lumen Gentium n.25, Humani Generis n.21,

Something the debate over Dignitas Infinita has so far oddly neglected to call much attention to is that it seems that it has now been conclusively demonstrated that a pope can teach error when not speaking ex cathedra. For the new DDF document (issued with the pope’s approval) says:

The death penalty… violates the inalienable dignity of every person, regardless of the circumstances… The firm rejection of the death penalty shows to what extent it is possible to recognize the inalienable dignity of every human being and to accept that he or she has a place in this universe. If I do not deny that dignity to the worst of criminals, I will not deny it to anyone.

By contrast, in Evangelium Vitae, even Pope John Paul II taught only:

Punishment… ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society. Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent.

And the original version of the Catechism promulgated by John Paul II stated:

The traditional teaching of the Church has acknowledged as well-founded the right and duty of the legitimate public authority to punish malefactors by means of penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime, not excluding, in cases of extreme gravity, the death penalty.

In short, John Paul II (like noscripture, and like every previous pope who spoke on the matter) held that some circumstances can justify capital punishment, whereas Pope Francis teaches that no circumstances can ever justify capital punishment.

You can say that Pope Francis is right, but then you are committed to saying that John Paul II and every previous pope who spoke on the matter erred. Or you can say that all previous popes were right and that Francis has erred. Either way, you are logically committed to holding that some pope or other erred.

This does not contradict the doctrine of papal infallibility, because the new DDF document is not an ex cathedra definition, as Cardinal Fernandez has confirmed. What it does refute is the view of those who argue that all papal teaching on faith and morals is infallible, and the view of those who hold that, even if not all such teaching is infallible, no pope has actually taught error.

Again, this latest development shows that some pope certainly taught error, whether you think that is Francis or his predecessors. Feel free to stomp your feet, shout “dissenter” and “bloodthirsty,” and otherwise blame the messenger all you like. The contradiction is not going away, and neither are the problems that follow from it. Pope Francis has guaranteed his place in the history books.

Edward Feser