by Karlo Broussard | Apr 17, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
In “Testing the Causal Chain” I responded to critics who deny the causal principle that whatever is composed of essence and existence —that is, for which existence is not part of essence—needs a cause. A variant of this principle that some atheists also challenge is...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 3, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
It’s recently been reported that in a meeting with his longtime atheist friend, the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis denied the reality of hell and asserted that condemned souls “disappear”—that’s to say, they’re annihilated. The Vatican responded by...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 28, 2018 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
In my article “The Moral Limits of Consent” I argued that the appeal to consent alone as a necessary condition for appropriate sexual behavior is not sufficient. The recent events involving accusations of sexual assault, harassment, and rape among Hollywood’s elite...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 7, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
“Where’s purgatory in the Bible?” Protestants ask this all the time. Any Catholic who is familiar with apologetics knows to answer with 1 Corinthians 3:11-15: For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if any one builds...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 22, 2018 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Last November, we looked at what some call the existential argument for God’s existence. One of its key premises is that whatever doesn’t have existence by nature must receive its existence from a cause outside itself (an “existential cause”—a cause that gives...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 6, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
It’s not uncommon for Catholics and Protestants to debate certain passages from James’s epistle. James 2:24 is the verse that many are familiar with: “You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.” A passage that’s not as well known, however, is...
