March 2017 - Page 2 of 2 - To Give a Defense

Attn. Fox News, et al.: The pope has condemned population control.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 5, 2017 • False Report; Pope Francis

Fox News, the UK Independent, and LSD News are all reporting that the pope has praised population control. This is fake news. And the reason I say so is because Pope Francis is on record condemning population control. He condemns it in Laudato Si—have you read it? Even LSD News and the National Catholic Register picked up on that. He condemned it in his interview on the flight back to Rome from Manila; maybe you recall that interview. Did you know he condemns population control in that interview three times? I have all the quotes, dear reader.

We should retire this balderdash about papal infallibility …

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 4, 2017 • Apologetics; Papal Infallibility

And I mean the balderdash that says you only have to listen to the pope when he speaks infallibly. It is not what the Catechism says; it is not what the Profession of Faith says, it is not what Lumen Gentium 25 says, and it is not what Canon Law 752 says: “Although not an assent of faith, a religious submission of the intellect and will must be given to a doctrine which the Supreme Pontiff or the college of bishops declares concerning faith or morals when they exercise the authentic magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim it by definitive act.”

Yes, Christ ordained his apostles as priests.

BY: Henry Matthew Alt • March 2, 2017 • Apologetics; Exegesis; priesthood

That this is authoritative Catholic teaching we know from the Catechism, as well as from the Council of Trent. But we also know this by reference to the Greek text of the New Testament, from the Didache, from J.N.D. Kelly, and a cross-reference to Exodus 29:38 in the Greek Septuagint, in which the word used describing the sacrifice of a priest is the very same word that Christ uses in Luke 22:19 when he says “Do this in remembrance of me.” He is telling them, “Sacrifice this,” which means he is ordaining them; for only a priest can offer a sacrifice.