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December 2018

December 06, 2018

The Catholic Apologetics Subculture has developed spiritual lupus

Lupus is an autoimmune disorder in which the systems that are supposed to defend the...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

Bp. Robert Barron, as usual, makes a lot of sense to me

He was in Rome last week, talking about what a new apologetics should look like:...

May 2018

May 04, 2018

Pete Vere Asks the Musical Question….

"Is it time for a New Catholic Apologetics Movement?" He's got a bunch of good...

January 2018

January 26, 2018

A short conversation about lay Catholic apologists

A reader asks: Morning Coffee Thought: This mornings ‘coffee thought’ is designed for Catholics. If...

October 2016

October 24, 2016

Question about the Magisterium and Catholic Unity

Fellow Patheosi Scott Eric Alt writes: Many Protestant apologists take issue with a line of...

May 2016

May 21, 2016

I love Fr. Robert Spitzer

November 2015

November 04, 2015

A Protestant Reader is Trying to Understand Papal Infallibility

He writes: I am a Reformed Presbyterian trending towards the Catholic Church, and I am about...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

The Rhythm of Jimmy Akin’s Life

1. Crazy people spread loony rumor based on crazy misreading of something Francis said. 2....

September 29, 2015

Why I’ve been spending more energy learning and discussing Catholic Social Teaching…

...then rehashing Greatest Hits on Apologetic Stuff my readers have already heard: “A Christianity which...

September 01, 2015

New Catholic Apologist on the Block!

Anybody who defends the Faith and gives his book revenues to charity is okay in...

June 2015

June 12, 2015

Part Two of the Catholic to American Phrasebook series

...by Yr Obdt. Svt. is up over at Our Sunday Visitor.

May 2015

May 12, 2015

Some recommendations for basic apologetics materials

A reader writes: I wanted to drop you a note to tell you that, while...

March 2015

March 31, 2015

The existence of God is, in the end, common sense

It has always seem to me to require far more faith to reject God than...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

Intellectual Fisticuffs

Some thoughts on the apologetics subculture over at the Register.

September 2014

September 19, 2014

The Pickle of Private Judgment

...is under discussion over at the Register.

September 06, 2014

Catholic Apologetics Tip

When a Fundamentalist tells you you are a pagan because some Catholic feast falls in a...

July 2014

July 16, 2014

It’s the July Installment of the Bad Evangelists Club!

This months installment of the Bad Evangelist Club comes from David Gray who talks about...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Why Not the Bible Alone?

Yr Obdt. Svt. on Sacred Tradition and the unreality of Bible Only revelation. This is...

March 2014

March 21, 2014

I like this

The apologetic task cannot be limited to developing arguments. In some way we must realize...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

The Bad Evangelist Club…

...on How Not to Refute Sola Scriptura.

January 2014

January 23, 2014

Everybody Knows There are 33,000 Protestant Denominations

Guess what? Everybody's wrong. The Bad Evangelist Club takes on some of the lazier urban...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

I think I must be binging on Fr. Barron

I like that he manages to find something good in everybody he critiques while not...

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Yo Facebookians! New Apologetics Blog!

Reader Jared Clark writes: One day, a friend and I were discussing the problem that...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

Finding God at the Beach

An interview with Peter Kreeft, a philosopher who loves to surf. He told me once...

July 25, 2013

The Indomitable John C. Wright

...continues his multi-part apologia for the Catholic faith in his inimitable style. He is such...

July 19, 2013

Faithful Answers and the Inquisitors’ Anti-Charism of Discernment

As the internet continues to facilitate the fractaling of the Catholic Church, what happens over...

May 2013

May 17, 2013

Test Driving my Thomism

In the debate on lying, one of the strongest objections raised (at least in our...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Okay, This Wins Some Kind of Prize Just for the Title

Horus Manure: Debunking the Jesus/Horus Connection

August 2012

August 24, 2012

Why a Celibate Priesthood?

In which Yr. Obdt. Svt. takes a look at the basic rationale for this discipline.

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