by Karlo Broussard | Mar 29, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
You’re at the park playing with your kids and two conservatively dressed young men are riding their bikes nearby, and you immediately recognize they are Mormon. Thoughts start whizzing through your mind: I hope they don’t come here. If they do, what will I say? Should...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 14, 2017 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
If you could wave a magic wand to get rid of either rape or religion, which would you choose? Popular atheist Sam Harris would choose religion. In a 2006 interview he argued, “more people are dying as a result of our religious myths than as a result of any other...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 8, 2017 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics believe the Eucharist is Jesus, literally. But does this belief have apostolic origins? St. Paul, an apostle, wrote vividly about the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, so I believe it does. Paul talks about the Eucharist in 1 Corinthians 10:16-21 and...
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...
