by Karlo Broussard | Jul 22, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
The Church teaches that the desire for baptism, whether explicitor implicit, saves those who die before they can receive it. Yet, someone may ask, “If that person doesn’t receive the sacrament of baptism, is he ‘fully Catholic’”? If by “fully Catholic” one means...
by Karlo Broussard | Jun 11, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
Objections to the belief in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist are numerous. Some attempt to expose the absurdities (here and here) of such belief. Others attempt to show that such belief contradicts what we know elsewhere in the Bible. Consider, for example,...
by Karlo Broussard | May 14, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
In a previous article, we looked at an objection to the Catholic doctrine on the Real Pressence from Protestant pastor Todd Baker: a literal interpretation of Jesus’ words “eat my flesh . . . drink my blood” leads to absurdity. Baker’s inferred absurdity is that by...
by Karlo Broussard | Apr 9, 2024 | Articles, Sacraments
There is no shortage of counters to the literal reading of Jesus’ words “eat my flesh . . . drink my blood” (John 6:54-58). One form these counters take is showing that such a literal reading entails an absurdity. Protestant Pastor Todd Baker makes this kind of...
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 | 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...
