by Karlo Broussard | Jul 5, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question My professor says Catholics believe that time is both circular and linear. How does that work? Answer It seems that your professor is mistaken. The Church’s definitive teaching about the new heaven and new Earth that Christ inaugurates at the end of time...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 4, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question Are there such things as coincidences? Answer The answer to this question is both yes and no, but in different respects. Relative to our human perspective, things do happen by chance. St. Thomas Aquinas noted, “In this world some things seem to happen by...
by Karlo Broussard | Jul 4, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question What is the Catholic Church’s teaching on the belief that Adam and Eve were merely symbols and not literally our first parents? Answer Pope Pius XII addressed this question in his 1950 encyclical Humani Generis. He identifies this belief as a...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 28, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question Jesus says, “Use not vain repetitions as the heathens do” (Matt. 6:7, King James Version). Doesn’t this prove that Catholics are wrong in praying the rosary? Answer There are three ways we can respond. First, Jesus is not condemning repetitious...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 16, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question My husband says onanism shouldn’t be sinful because Jesus did away with the laws of the Old Testament. Is this true? Answer To define our terms, onanism refers to a type of contraceptive act, coitus interruptus, often called the withdrawal method....
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 15, 2017 | Q & A
Full Question I’ve been told that we cannot do any good deed without grace. But I see non-baptized persons do good deeds all the time. How do we reconcile this? Answer It is not Catholic belief that grace is necessary to perform a good action. Pope Pius V condemned...
