by Karlo Broussard | May 19, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Romans 6:3-4 is a go-to passage for many Christians when they want to show from the Bible that baptism actually does something—that it saves. Paul tells us that through baptism, we’re “buried therefore with [Christ] . . . into death . . . [so that] we might walk in...
by Karlo Broussard | May 14, 2025 | Articles, General Ethics
In its Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (6th Edition), the USCCB defines “abortion” as “the directly intended destruction of a viable fetus.”1This is what most people have in mind when they think of abortion. However, there is another...
by Karlo Broussard | May 2, 2025 | Articles
Does Paul reject the idea that Peter was the first pope? Some Christians think so, especially in Galatians 2:6. Paul writes, And from those who were reputed to be something (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who were of...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 3, 2025 | Articles
The Letter of Clement to the Church of Corinth, which dates to the latter part of the first century, is often appealed to as evidence that the church of Rome, and by way of implication the bishop of Rome, had a posture of leadership relative to the other churches...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 21, 2025 | Articles
A standard go-to Bible passage for Catholics in rebutting the Protestant argument that Jesus forbids calling religious leaders “father” (Matt. 23:9) is 1 Corinthians 4:15. There, Paul says, “Though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 12, 2025 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
ome Christians object to the claim that our good works play a causal role in our salvation. They also reject the idea and that it’s possible to lose our salvation, subscribing instead to a doctrine called eternal security. They’re concerned that on the Catholic view,...
