by Karlo Broussard | Dec 19, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catholic Church has defined the essential difference between the honor we give to God through prayer and the honor we give to the saints. The Second Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (787) defined the “adoration” we give to God alone as latreia (Greek) or latria...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 19, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Church teaches that anyone can baptize in extraordinary circumstances (CCC 1256). Thus, grandparents often find themselves wondering if they are permitted to baptize their grandchild when his parent doesn’t want him baptized. And not just grandparents, but also...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 11, 2025 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
For many, the Gospel portrait of Jesus as a miracle worker smacks of legend. Raising the dead, healing the blind, making the deaf hear—these don’t seem like the stuff of history. But the Gospel narratives themselves include clues that point in a different direction....
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 3, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Hebrews 10:14 says Christ’s sacrifice has “perfected” for all time those who are being sanctified. Yet when Catholics leave Mass, which they believe is the single sacrifice of Christ re-represented (CCC 1364), they aren’t completely perfect. Protestant apologist James...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 20, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
One of the most common objections Protestants raise against the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is that it seems to contradict what Jesus taught about the immediacy of heaven after death. In fact, well-known Protestant writers Norman Geisler and Ralph MacKenzie make...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 9, 2025 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
One of the most common reasons skeptics doubt the Gospels is that they present Jesus as a miracle-worker. After all, the logic goes, if a story contains supernatural elements, then it must be legendary. This assumption drives much of the skepticism surrounding the...
