by Karlo Broussard | Sep 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Stock Protestant objections to the practice of invoking the saints to pray for us have been around for quite some time: “Jesus is the one mediator,” “we shouldn’t communicate with the dead,” “the dead can’t hear us,” etc. And a plethora of successful responses have...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 15, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Is Christianity a religion full of contradictions? This Muslim fellow on TikTok thinks so. He thinks that, in professing Jesus to be God, we thereby affirm and deny at the same time certain attributes of God. For example, he argues, “If you say God became man, you...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 8, 2023 | Articles, Sacraments
The doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist entails the idea that what is substantially there—the body and blood of Jesus—is not what our senses perceive, i.e., bread and wine. But isn’t that deception? Giving us a sacrament that deceives our senses...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 23, 2023 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
Often when asked where the Bible condemns contraception some Christians appeal to Genesis 38:8-10. There, Onan, son of Judah, is told to have intercourse with his deceased brother’s wife to “perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her and raise up offspring for [his]...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 8, 2023 | Articles, Sacraments
The other day when I was on Catholic Answers Live, I had an interesting challenge (time code: 1:16:17). A gentleman called in and asked if there were any infallible pronouncements from the Magisterium affirming that the desire for baptism is sufficient to obtain the...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 28, 2023 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Here’s a skeptical meme I recently came across: There are three problems with this (admittedly kind of funny) picture. Let’s take the first: Christians neglect the poor. This hardly seems worth the trouble to rebut. More than any other group you can identify, for...
