by Karlo Broussard | Apr 8, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Sometimes, we’re called to explain our Catholic beliefs using Scripture, often when talking with our Protestant friends. Other times, a historical approach works best, such as when we’re defending the reliability of the New Testament or Jesus’ resurrection to someone...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Previously, we considered two rebuttals that some Protestants make against Catholics’ use of Revelation 5:8 in support of the doctrine of the intercession of the saints. And we saw how both don’t work. But there are other counter-arguments that a Protestant may spring...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism defines heaven as the “ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme definitive happiness” (1024). But how? The textbook answer is the knowledge that we will have of the divine essence, which theologians call the...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Critics of the doctrine of hell often argue that it’s unjust, because eternal punishment exceeds the temporal nature of a mortal sin. Why should any sin we commit on earth, in time, require everlasting punishment in hell? It’s not proportional. St. Thomas Aquinas...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often appeal to Revelation 5:8 as support for the intercession of the saints: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that “every spiritual soul is . . . immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final resurrection” (366). But some Christians outside mainstream Protestantism, in particular...
