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...
by Karlo Broussard | Oct 5, 2023 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
In Exodus 1:15, Pharoah commands two Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, to kill every Hebrew male child among them coming out the womb. But neither of them did as Pharaoh commanded because they “feared God” (v.17). When Pharaoh asked them why they had let the male...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 19, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Stock Protestant objections to the practice of invoking the saints to pray for us have been around for quite some time: “Jesus is the one mediator,” “we shouldn’t communicate with the dead,” “the dead can’t hear us,” etc. And a plethora of successful responses have...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 15, 2023 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Is Christianity a religion full of contradictions? This Muslim fellow on TikTok thinks so. He thinks that, in professing Jesus to be God, we thereby affirm and deny at the same time certain attributes of God. For example, he argues, “If you say God became man, you...
by Karlo Broussard | Sep 8, 2023 | Articles, Sacraments
The doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist entails the idea that what is substantially there—the body and blood of Jesus—is not what our senses perceive, i.e., bread and wine. But isn’t that deception? Giving us a sacrament that deceives our senses...
