by Karlo Broussard | Jul 29, 2025 | Articles
There’s no shortage of critiques Protestants offer when it comes to the Catholic idea of Sacred Tradition. One of the more common ones goes like this: We can’t know what’s in Sacred Tradition the way we can know what’s in Scripture. Protestant scholar Robert Godfrey...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 9, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
If I asked you, “What role does the epistle of James play in apologetics?”, you’d probably say something like, “Isn’t that the book people bring up when Catholics and Protestants debate faith and works?” And you’d be right—but there’s actually more to it than that....
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 2, 2025 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Atheists often point to science—especially evolution—as a way to explain the world without needing God. One famous voice to make this case is Christopher Hitchens. In his 2009 debate with William Lane Craig, Hitchens opined, It’s not very much contested any more that...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 24, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) teaches that at the Last Judgment, “the truth of each man’s relationship with God will be laid bare” (1039). This means that the blessed in heaven will know which of their loved ones are in hell. This seems to cause a...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 5, 2025 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The late Mary Anne Warren argued that one of the earmarks for determining a human being to be a person is the attainment of “consciousness . . . and in particular the capacity to feel pain.” This is a common tactic that pro-abortion advocates take to elude pro-life...
by Karlo Broussard | May 22, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Some claim that certain passages in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, such as paragraphs 1821 and 1058, seem to support the thesis that it’s possible to believe that humans will not end up in hell. For example, paragraph 1821 reads, We can . . . hope in the glory...
