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.
Hello Devan, and welcome to Restless Pilgrim!
I literally just watched that video and had to do a double take because I am going though RCIA to become Catholic and he said that and I was like that’s not right. Glad I found this literally minutes after. But this is something I think is a big problem against Catholics because I had to fight through these inaccuracies to see the truth.
Yeah, Frank is good on a lot of topics, but he does seem to have quite a blind spot when it comes to Catholicism. He’s also a fan of C.S. Lewis, Pints With Jack, so I’ve tried to get him onto our podcast and have a chat with him about it, but have thus far been unsuccessful 🙁
How are you finding RCIA? Unfortunately, I’ve rarely heard glowing reports!
I agree frank is great about alot of issues regarding theology and I do agree that a person can become a true Christian regardless of what church they are attending. But, a true Christian cannot stay in or continue to practice catholicism and have a relationship with Jesus Christ this is oxymoronic, can you imagine the spirit of God living in you telling you to pray to dead spirits or eating human flesh and blood ( canableism) or believing the blood of Christ was insufficient and purgatory will wash your sins away no.
By saying this you are condemning the Early Church and all those who gave their lives under the Roman Empire’s persecutions. You’re also condemning most Christians for most of Christian history. To illustrate this, can you please name someone in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th Century whom you regard as a true Christian?
Please do a Bible word search online at least using the words one mind, one accord, dissensions, schisms. The Bible says God is not a god of confusion. He does not want us all to believe and interpret scripture differently. This is not biblical. More people would get saved and more would be helped by Christian charity if we were in one Accord as in Acts chapter 2. The Protestant churches cannot agree how to interpret scriptures and they keep splitting off forming a new congregation. Holy Spirit does not tell one church one thing, and another church another thing. Yet each Church claims to be led by the holy spirit in the way that they interpret scripture. Jesus instituted the church through Peter when he said thou art Peter and Upon This Rock I will build my church and the Gates of Hell will not Prevail against it. He gave him the keys to the kingdom of heaven Etc. Peter was the first leader or Pope which means Papa. When Jesus said I will lead you into all truth through the Holy Spirit he instituted the means in which to do this. It Is through the pope and the magisterium. Peter appointed Bishops in the New Testament… study Apostolic succession . If you go to catholic.com which is Catholic answers you can type in any question and find out the truth. Be prepared to be surprised. But you will get nowhere if you have too much pride in your heart you will be blinded. You have to come to him as a little child not full of Pride and then maybe you can see the truth of the Catholic church and that Jesus is truly in the Eucharist and find the treasure chest of all the beauty that you are missing out on as a Protestant. Some Churches believe once saved always saved. How many Souls will go to hell because they were erroneously taught that. It makes me shudder. We are to Worship in spirit and Truth. He came and died for truth. We owe it to him to find that truth. And not just go to church where you feel warm fuzzies and feel like you get a lot out of it. It’s not about how much you get out of it it’s about how much you give him praise and glory. At Mass the heavens supernaturally open and we are praising God with them in heaven. When I take the Eucharist I get to be that woman touching the Hem of His Garment but even better he comes into my body his love is consummated with me.
What’s the diff between protestant churches having various and conflicting bible interpretations and the Catholic church having various positions over history which they subsequently disowned eg condemnation and later posthumous apology to galileo, rejection and acceptance of evolution, etc. The Catholic church’s oneness vs the splinter nature of prostentant is an illusion that disguises the numerous differing interpretations in Catholicism itself. Because of the papal authority, other voices are quietened just as it was with galileo whose view was suppressed and
Hey Xavier, Welcome to Restless Pilgrim!
To be Catholic doesn’t mean that there’s never any difference of opinion. There are different schools of thought within Catholicism. The difference is that Catholicism has a means of resolving issues. Protestantism does not, it just results in new denominations.
I have a suspicion that you haven’t actually looked into in any detail either of these two cases you raise. For example, what documents are you referring to regarding the rejection and acceptance on evolution?
Catholic teach a different Gospel and a different Jesus. Frank doesn’t seem to know this because he seems to well come the Catholics as Christians and won’t divide himself from them.