by Karlo Broussard | May 9, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Last week my fellow Catholic Answers Online Magazine contributor Luke Lancaster ably countered the use of Galatians 2 by our Protestant brothers and sisters who want to read St. Paul as arguing that works do not contribute to the justification and salvation of...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 19, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Previously, we considered two rebuttals that some Protestants make against Catholics’ use of Revelation 5:8 in support of the doctrine of the intercession of the saints. And we saw how both don’t work. But there are other counter-arguments that a Protestant may spring...
by Karlo Broussard | Mar 4, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism defines heaven as the “ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme definitive happiness” (1024). But how? The textbook answer is the knowledge that we will have of the divine essence, which theologians call the...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often appeal to Revelation 5:8 as support for the intercession of the saints: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which...
by Karlo Broussard | Dec 14, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that the Church “must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers,” and such a persecution will “unveil the ‘mystery of iniquity’ in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems...
by Karlo Broussard | Nov 29, 2018 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches in paragraph 1240 that a proper form for administering baptism is “I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.” But for some Protestants, such as Oneness Pentecostals, this Trinitarian...
