by Karlo Broussard | Feb 24, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
In my previous article, we saw that there is such a thing as sexual sanity, an objective reality with which we need to live in accord in order to be sexually sane. Regardless of someone’s personal motive for engaging in sexual activity, procreation is its natural end....
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 9, 2017 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
Sanity is to see what is (reality) and live in accord with it. If your grandfather thinks leprechauns are jumping in his butter dish and he gives them his butter knife to use as a springboard, then his sanity is defective. He mistakes a hallucination for what is real...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 1, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Most Catholics are aware that Holy Thursday commemorates Jesus’ Last Supper as the first Mass. But what some miss is that Holy Thursday also celebrates Jesus’ institution of the ministerial priesthood. What’s interesting is that when you read the Last Supper...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 19, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
HERE’S HOW TO RESPOND to two arguments that Protestants commonly turn to in order to disprove the Catholic understanding of John 6. They are: (1) the argument from “The flesh is of no avail” and “My words are spirit and life” and (2) the “door” and the “vine”...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 16, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
JESUS’ BREAD OF LIFE DISCOURSE in John 6 is to a Catholic what a hammer is to Thor. Pretty much every Catholic who has been pinned down by an objection in a debate with a Protestant has pulled out John 6 to gain the upper hand. “Oh, yeah?” the Catholic says...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 13, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that at the Last Judgment “the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare” (CCC 1039). This means the blessed in heaven will know which of their loved ones are in hell. But this seems to cause a problem. If...
