by Karlo Broussard | Feb 9, 2020 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
The Catholic Church, in Humanae Vitae and other documents, condemns contraception because the person who uses it to prevent pregnancy intentionally thwarts the primary end of the sexual act, procreation (the secondary and complementary end is unitive love). This...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 15, 2020 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Matthew 12:32 is often a go-to passage for Catholics when it comes to Purgatory. The text reads: “Whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Recently, we looked at an objection that argues God can’t be immutable and at the same time be the universal cause of temporal effects because that would entail God having to change in his acts—acting to cause one thing at one moment in time, ceasing that act at...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, Sacraments
When it comes to defending the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, Catholics naturally turn to Jesus’ words at the Last Supper: Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is my...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 22, 2019 | Articles, General Ethics
For many and obvious reasons, pushing back against moral relativism is fundamental to the work of apologetics. And there’s no small amount of thorough refutations of the notion that every person is a moral island unto himself. Amidst all of the debate, however, there...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 6, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that mortal sin “destroys charity in the heart of man” (1855) and that “to die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our own free choice” in a state...
