Catholicism: The Fullness of the Truth - Explaining the Faith by Fr Chris Alar
This video is nearly and hour and a half long and covers many arguments against the Catholic Church which even many Catholics don't know how to respond. I decided to make some cliff notes (short cuts) to go back to. Not to lower other faiths but to elevate the Catholic Not to lower other faiths but to elevate the Catholic Yes there is an itemized transcript for the video but I listened for stops that I may want to go back to hear again.
You can skip to the following timer for father's explanation of each topic.
@ 5:43 Who and when were churches started
@ 10:08 Two topics most talked about unique to the Catholic Church
@ 11:02 Tabernacle (placing God in a box)
@ 12:59 Saints are advocates not mediators
@14:53 Human and apostolic tradition unbroken
@ 16:47 Catholics, like the Jews, three legs, Magesterium, scripture (not just solo scriptura) and oral tradition
@ 21:27 Authority to forgive sins Confession: What You Don't Know (Part 1)
@ 31:21 Burn Bibles, Chained bibles to rocks, and put them in Latin so nobody could read
@ 35:09 saved by Faith "alone" (added by Martin Luther) & works
@ 39:15 Pope infallibility
@ 46:53 Peter authority to delegate
@ 48:10 saints icons and relics
@ 55:20 purgatory
@ 57:45 church
@ 1:07:50 crusades
@ 1:15:52 covers pedophiles in the priesthood.
@ 1:05:12 Galileo and Copernicus
@ 1:07:52 Crusades protect pilgrims in Jerusalem
@ 1:09:30 Inquisition
@ 1:10:55 call no man father
@ 1:11:45 Infant Baptism
@ 1:13:45 Jesus one mediator
@ 1:15:12 Once saved always saved
@ teach govern and sanctify to the end
@ 1:15:50 church scandal pedophilia true but exploited. We don't leave Jesus because of Judas.
