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...
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...
