by Karlo Broussard | Nov 15, 2016 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
For many people, the Catholic doctrine of hell serves as an obstacle to belief in God. They think an all-good God wouldn’t allow someone he loves to experience everlasting torment. And they think the permanent nature of hell’s punishment is incompatible with a just...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 14, 2016 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Theists and atheists wield many weapons in the battle over the truth of God’s existence. One such weapon for theists is the moral argument, which asserts moral obligation is impossible without God. But since moral obligation is real, so the argument goes, it follows...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 7, 2016 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
“For the living know that they will die,” says the author of Ecclesiastes (Eccles. 9:5). This is a reality we all face. But the question of what to do with the body after death remains. May we cremate it? If so, may we scatter the ashes or must we preserve them? May...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 26, 2016 | Articles, Sacraments
It is an infallible teaching of the Catholic Church that the Eucharist is a sacrifice—in particular, the one sacrifice of Christ. The Council of Trent declared: If any one saith, that, by the sacrifice of the mass, a blasphemy is cast upon the most holy sacrifice of...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 20, 2016 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
Let’s say you’re talking to a skeptic, and he makes the claim, “Jesus never said he was God. That’s something his disciples later ascribed to him—like it was to the Buddha.” What would your response be? I bet you would turn to Jesus’ “I Am” statement in John 8:58 and...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 5, 2016 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In a recent article posted at the Catholic Answers blog, I showed why the hallucination and vision theories fail as explanations of Jesus’ resurrection. One of the arguments I gave is the empty tomb argument: if the apostles were hallucinating or only having a vision...
