Catholicism vs Turek

I would not put myself into the position of the Catholic student. Perhaps he acted on his priest's orders?

Frank Turns the Tables on Catholic Student
Cross Examined | 23 Oct. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p33QiwFxBk

By the way, one thing that the Catholic Church emphasises in every Mass is Christ's qualifications to be Our Saviour.

God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father ... by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man.

Like "not man only God" = couldn't be sacrificed. "Not God, only man" = His sacrifice wouldn't have been perfect.

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1) "why is X emphasised / not emphasised?" is perhaps not the most helpful question;
2) justification is the first moment of sanctification, and therefore involves the readiness for the upcoming works (Eph 2:8—10);
3) Matthew 20:28 obviously doesn't mean we have no commandments to keep,
4) but rather Matthew 28:20 means the Church He founded cannot lose essential truth and in the light of verse 16, it's founded on Apostolic succession.

6:19 When we say of a living person "he was saved" we mean he was justified. When we say of someone who died "he was saved" we mean he "was not damned" ...

Being justified is compatible with being damned after that, if you lose justification by sinning.

It's the second kind of saved that needs good works actually being done, not the first which is the initial moment also known as justification.

7:05 We do need a series of people authorised by God to forgive our sins, because that's what Jesus gave us.

Whether you call them "mediators" or not doesn't change that.

1) He authorised His Apostles to forgive sins:

He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained
[John 20:21-23]

2) He promised to perpetuate their line:

And the eleven disciples went into Galilee, unto the mountain where Jesus had appointed them And seeing him they adored: but some doubted And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world
[Matthew 28:16-20]

3) We see their line being perpetuated both in individuals and in the general idea: 1) Acts 1:26, Acts 8:19,20, 2) Acts 13:3, 3) I Tim 4:14/II Tim 1:6, 4) I Tim 5:22.

4) We see one in the line forgive and speak of when to forgive sins on God's behalf: II Cor 2:7

7:14 The proof text you appeal to doesn't say whom to confess to, like "directly to Jesus" or to a priest:

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity
[1 John 1:9]

Also looked up 1 John 5. Pretty much against OSAS in the cases of people sinning after being forgiven.

7:51 The laity are a priesthood according to Catholic theology, but a passive one, in relation to the clergy.

And clergymen as people remain that too, passive in relation to the clergy. Even the Pope has to be forgiven by a priest in Confession.

8:11 That St. Peter is speaking about a passive priesthood when he speaks of the one of all believers, see here:

Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ
[1 Peter 2:5]

Be ye built up ...