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Are Gospel Accounts Of The Nativity At Odds With Each Other?
In this excerpt from his book, Hard Sayings: A Catholic Approach to Answering Bible Difficulties, Trent Horn looks at how we can make sense of what seem to be inconsistencies with the Gospel narratives around the the time of the Nativity.Consider the accounts of Jesus’ birth that are found in Matthew’s and Luke’s Gospels. According to critics, Matthew 2:1-23 tells us that Mary and Joseph lived in Bethlehem, where Mary gave birth to Jesus and the couple received the Magi
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Dec 21st 2017
God Works In Mysterious Ways - The Story Behind A Catholic Apologetics Classic
Over the last 29 years, so many lives have been touched by Karl Keating's book, Catholicism and Fundamentalism. It has been referred to again and again by converts as being instrumental in their conversion. It is very simply, a classic.But how did Karl come to write Catholicism and Fundamentalism? The story might interest you.Here's the story, in Karl's own words...My first substantial foray into apologetical writing was in the pages of The Wanderer, a Catholic weekly newspaper. After having d
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Dec 11th 2017
Can Works Aid In Our Salvation? The Answer Might Surprise You
Fr. William G. Most (1914-1997) will not end up numbered among first-rank apologists, but his book Catholic Apologetics Today (now out of print) came to my attention just when I could profit from it. It appeared as I was putting together the newspaper columns that, when collected and revised, became my first book. Every Fundamentalist I have dealt with—or so it has seemed—has faulted the Catholic Church for teaching, supposedly, that we are saved through good works. We earn
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Nov 14th 2017
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More than anyone else, Karl Keating is responsible for bringing Catholic Apologetics to a world hungry for truth. Here's a glimpse at how it all started....
I was twelve when my maternal grandmother came to visit, the second-longest trip of her life. We moved to Southern California when I was six, so my childhood memories of her are few, but I have a photograph from her only vi
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Nov 7th 2017
You Say You Want A Revolution...
Today is October 31st - Commonly referred to as Reformation Day by Protestants and it marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, when, as the story goes, Martin Luther nailed a list of his grievances with the Catholic Church (commonly called "The 95 Theses") to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany.
But that's not the whole story....
In the documentary-style film The Protestant Revolution, written and narrated by Trent Horn, you wil
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Oct 30th 2017