by Karlo Broussard | Sep 24, 2018 | Articles, General
Last week we looked at six Catholic beliefs that blogger Lea Rose Emery called “weird” in a shallow misrepresentation of Catholicism that nonetheless has been read by over 70,000 people. Let’s once more follow her advice and “take a harder look” at the remaining six...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 17, 2018 | Articles, General
An American comedienne named Lea Rose Emery recently shared with the world an online article entitled, “The 12 Most Absurd Things Catholics Actually Believe In.” In it she advises Catholics to wake up from their trance of going along with “weird Catholic beliefs they...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 3, 2018 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
When asked what it would take for them to believe in God, atheists often say that something miraculous, like a cut-off limb growing back, would move them to belief. They intuit that if being could be given where there is non-being, there must be a transcendent cause...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 23, 2018 | Articles, General Ethics
When faced with the problem of moral evil—the skeptic’s claim that the existence of evil in the world is incompatible with the existence of an all-good God—many Christian apologists often argue like this: since God willed to create creatures with free will, the...
by Karlo Broussard | Aug 7, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Council of Trent taught that through baptism believers “are made innocent, immaculate, pure, harmless, and beloved of God.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church concurs: “Justification is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 31, 2018 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
When specifying to whom the encyclical Humanae Vitae was addressed, Pope Paul VI included “all men of good will.” This means that the Church’s teaching on the “inseparable connection between the procreative and unitive” ends of sex is not just for Christians, as if it...
