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...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 10, 2018 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In our quest to discover whether Jesus is Emmanuel (God with us), it is necessary that we concern ourselves with Jesus’ miracles. For if Jesus performed miracles, then we have good reason to believe that Jesus is who he says he is: the exclusive son of the Father...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 26, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “Is the Only Real Knowledge Scientific Knowledge?” I argued that scientism—the belief that science is the only source for real and objective knowledge—is a self-referentially incoherent belief. It’s not empirically verifiable or quantifiably measurable, and thus is...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 11, 2018 | Articles, Sacraments
Some Christians, especially those who call themselves “non-denominational,” criticize Catholicism for its rituals, especially those of the Mass. They may argue that such ritualized forms of worship were only for the Old Covenant. Since we’re in the New Covenant, we...
