by Karlo Broussard | Dec 23, 2023 | Articles
Below is my contribution, along with others, to the Catholic Answers roundtable discussion on Fiducia Supplicans. This week, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published the declaration Fiducia Supplicans (FS), which reflects on the theology of blessing...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Typically, Protestants who believe in the “once saved always saved” doctrine also believe we can “know” we have eternal life. And the knowledge here is taken to be knowledge with absolute certainty, i.e., having no possibility of error—as opposed to knowledge with...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 21, 2023 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Scientism rears its ugly head again: Scientism is the philosophical worldview that states only the methods of modern science can give us real knowledge. This is clear from the meme: science is the only one that gives us knowledge that the black cat is in the dark...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 14, 2023 | Articles, Sexual Ethics
Christians have their differences, but they also have their commonalities. There are many issues that Christians of all stripes can face with locked arms. One example is the culture’s acceptance of immoral lifestyle choices—in this case, so-called “sex reassignment”...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 25, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
A student of mine recently was troubled by a challenge that a Protestant pastor posed to him and a group of teenagers. The pastor claimed that the denial of the “once saved always saved” doctrine—that’s to say, the Catholic belief that it’s possible to lose your...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 10, 2023 | Articles, Sacraments
Jesus’ command to “eat my flesh” and “drink my blood” in John 6 has been the subject of much debate since the time of the Protestant Reformation. And Catholic apologists have done their fair share of defending the realistic understanding of these words (we must eat...
