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I worked for 17 years as a staff apologist for Catholic Answers, a Catholic apologetics and media apostolate in El Cajon, California. Before that, I worked for Catholic Answers as a customer service representative and general jill-of-all-trades, both as a volunteer and staff member, since 1997. (For the record, I was officially hired in 2000, promoted to staff apologist in 2003.) What does an "apologist" do, you might be wondering? In addition to engaging clients in conversations about the Catholic faith by phone, email, and online, I wrote for Catholic Answers' online and print magazines, contributed three booklets to their "20 Answers" series (on witchcraft and the occult, Judaism, and the New Age—which gives you some idea of my interests), and I contributed to Catholic Answers' product development by editing, proofreading, and holding people back from committing inadvertent heresy. Now I'm a freelance writer, editor, and proofreader. My opinions are my own. And if I commit inadvertent heresy, no one is holding me back.

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How to Bring Catholics Back to Mass

A friend, I'll call him Chad,* once told me how his sister,... read more

Conversions and Catholic Sola Scriptura

Perhaps the most poignant conversion story I've read was that of Rabbi... read more

How Not to Be a Terrible Sea Lion

"There are no bad questions" is one of those collected pearls of... read more

Apologetics Mistakes and Circling the Memory Hole

When the rapper Clifford Harris Jr. (also known as T.I.) told the... read more

A Lapsed Catholic's Guide to Observing Lent

"Want to go with me to confession?" My roommate routinely asks me... read more

The Virgin and the Philosophers

A few years ago, the Church marked the fiftieth anniversary of Humanae... read more

Praying for Pity's Sake

After twenty years of navigating discussions with strangers online, a dozen of... read more

The Time I Had a D&C

Catholic Answers always provided health insurance for full-time employees, but for many... read more

Priests Should Mind Their Own Business

A couple of months ago, I examined the case of a lay... read more

Kill the Cat Apologetics

I like to say that I became a professional Catholic apologist by... read more

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