Frank Turek – Charitable but still uninformed about Catholicism
The very fact that the video’s title talks about “last rights” rather than “last rites” doesn’t instill great confidence…
I love Frank’s ministry, but he really should never speak about Catholicism. Every video and podcast I’ve seen and heard of him talking about Catholicism is littered with inaccuracies.
Saying “I was brought up in the Catholic Church” is no guarantee you understand what the Catholic Church teaches. The biggest example of it in this video is where he and the lady in the audience assert that Catholics believe they’re sacrificing Jesus again.
I hope Franks mum will see this video and read to him the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
“The Eucharist is thus a sacrifice because it re-presents (makes present) the sacrifice of the cross, because it is its memorial and because it applies its fruit”.
Catechism of the Catholic Church (Paragraph #1366)
This paragraph goes on to quote the Council of Trent:
[Christ], our Lord and God, was once and for all to offer himself to God the Father by his death on the altar of the cross, to accomplish there an everlasting redemption. But because his priesthood was not to end with his death, at the Last Supper “on the night when he was betrayed,” [he wanted] to leave to his beloved spouse the Church a visible sacrifice (as the nature of man demands) by which the bloody sacrifice which he was to accomplish once for all on the cross would be re-presented, its memory perpetuated until the end of the world, and its salutary power be applied to the forgiveness of the sins we daily commit.=
Council of Trent (1562): DS 1740; cf. 1 Cor 11:23; Heb 7:24, 27.