Catholic Answers

Catholic Answers, located in El Cajon, California, is the biggest lay-led organization dedicated to Roman Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the U.S. It produces Catholic Answers Magazine, which is published every two months and covers topics related to Catholic outreach, religious education, and apologetics. Additionally, it operates the website catholic.com. The organization also hosts Catholic Answers Live, a radio program that responds to callers' inquiries on various subjects connected to the teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. This show is also broadcast on the EWTN radio network.

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A Trad Starter Kit

1 week ago | catholic.com | Michael P. Foley

One solution to this disorientation is a sort of “trad starter kit”— a collection of books for those who would like to learn more about the TLM. I do not believe that there is a definitive, one-size-fits-all list; much depends on the individual, his temperament, and his own background, and one man’s medicine can be another man’s poison. Some souls delight in the polemics of Michael Davies; others are offended by the tone.
Quoting Scripture Is Not an Argument

1 month ago | catholic.com | Casey Chalk

Imagine you are a judge on a high court, hearing a case debating the meaning of a law. One plaintiff presents his case, citing the language of that law, as well as the language of various other laws. He reads the laws reverently, periodically inflecting his voice to emphasize certain passages, or pausing to note that the passage clearly proves that he is right. Then he sits down. The other plaintiff rises and proceeds also to cite the law.
Sanctify Your Drinking in Pre-Lent!

2 months ago | catholic.com | Michael P. Foley

Now's the time to work on being sober, both physically and spiritually . . . or at least being soberish. “‘Soberish’ can mean drinking more mindfully, drinking less or avoiding alcohol altogether but not other drugs.”—Emily Schmall, “Not Drunk, Not Dry: What It Means to Be ‘Soberish,’” New York Times, January 15, 2025Periodic abstinence is one of the key ways to maintain a healthy relationship with alcohol, and many Catholics use Lent as the occasion for such a dry spell.
Miracles Lead to the Catholic Faith

2 months ago | catholic.com | Casey Chalk

For starters, when compared to many other ancient historical events, the sheer amount of evidence supporting the reality of Jesus’ miracles is overwhelming. The Gospels are four separate accounts of his life, written within a generation or two of his ministry, and share many overlapping details, including miracles.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster!

2 months ago | catholic.com | Pat Flynn

So. The Flying Spaghetti Monster. Let’s talk about this. The idea is that theism is unreasonable (or just plain stupid) because it is no better motivated than believing in a creator or designer that is, essentially, a sentient ball of noodle appendages that can somehow fly. It’s a funny example—funny enough to have become a general symbol of religious parody. But is it effective? Is belief in God really no better, rationally speaking, than belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
Creeds Can't Save Protestantism

Jan 7, 2025 | catholic.com | Casey Chalk

Protestants, many of us Catholic apologists argue, effectively act as their own popes. The reason why, we allege, is that every Protestant is ultimately accountable to his personal interpretation of divine revelation, which for Protestants is solely the sixty-six-book Protestant Bible. Every Protestant, we posit, acts as his own magisterial authority, both in interpreting the Bible and even in deciding what constitutes the Bible, given their rejection of the deuterocanon.
What Acts Leaves Out

Dec 11, 2024 | catholic.com | Jimmy Akin

The Book of Acts does not tell us the full story of early Church history. It provides only partial information. The Book of Acts does not tell us the full story of early Church history. It provides only partial information. This is obvious from the fact that it covers just the period between A.D. 33 and 60, when it suddenly stops (providing us an important clue to when it was written). Even within that time frame, though, it is only a partial record.
Fight the Anti-Advent

Dec 10, 2024 | catholic.com | Joseph Shaw

Nevertheless, Advent is a carefully calibrated penitential season. Whereas there is no gloria, there is an Alleluia. Advent has not, historically, usually been regarded as requiring the same degree of penance as Lent. A penitential season leading up to Christmas enters the Church’s historical record in France in the year 480, with fasting three days a week from St. Martin’s Day (November 11), but as it spread to other countries, it became shorter and less severe.
Wrong Jesus, Right Jesus

Dec 3, 2024 | catholic.com | Jeffrey Kirby

As enlightened as we think we are in the twenty-first century West, we must speak of what is observable: that as a civilization, we have backslid into more-developed versions of former paganism and barbarity. Our technological and scientific successes have created a façade of development, an illusion of advancement. We think we are so progressive and advanced, when in fact we are actually regressing as a human civilization.
Scorsese Shoots for Sainthood

Nov 27, 2024 | catholic.com | Sean Fitzpatrick

From looking at two episodes, indications are that this series will be burdened with Scorsese’s certainly complicated and perhaps relativist relationship with Catholicism. Executively produced and narrated by Scorsese, the series clearly has real cinematic quality: excellent costumery, convincing sets, strong direction, and other signs of high production value. It flounders where many films do these days: the writing. The scripts are weak, and their weakness inevitably brings down the acting.