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There are usually a few Masses per year at which there can be expected to be a large number of non-Catholics present. Christmas and Easter Masses are popular with non-Catholics, mainly because they are visiting Catholic family and friends. Nuptial Masses, especially when one of the parties to be married is a non-Catholic Christian, will have large turnouts of non-Catholics (sometimes up to half the congregation). Non-Catholics can also be expected at Masses offered for other sacramental firsts and life-cycle events, such as confirmations and funerals.This reality raises a common question for the apologists here at Catholic Answers: What...

When Karl Keating started Catholic Answers in the mid 1980s, he wasn’t setting out to create a new Catholic apostolate with an international outreach. He just wanted to hide behind a name. What started as a simple response to an anti-Catholic tract twenty-one years ago has blossomed into the largest Catholic apologetics and evangelization organization in North America. — By Tim Drake, Envoy Magazine (www.envoymagazine.com), 2001 — At the time, Keating was working behind a desk as a general civil lawyer. After Mass one Sunday morning he discovered an anti-Catholic flyer had been placed on the windshields of all the...

Publishing Whatever One Wants To: Rome's Nihil Obstat and Imprimatur, and Current Trends in Catholic Apologetics05/30/2008 - James Swan    Over the last few years I've focused on current popular Catholic apologists, that is, those whose names you may hear on Catholic Answers, or find on The Journey Home. In order to be familiar with Catholic argumentation, the best way to do so is to actually hear them make their own arguments and interpretations of Catholic doctrine.    I purchase their books as well. I buy these books because not only am I interested in how they argue, I like to see...

The success of the Guerrilla Apologetics pocket guides on Catholic and pro-life apologetics has led to the release of two new books: “Guerrilla Apologetics for Catholics” (ISBN: 097722340X) and “Guerrilla Apologetics for Life Issues” (ISBN: 0977223418). Rather than relying on defending one's faith or beliefs, Guerrilla Apologetics instructs readers on how to target flaws and weaknesses in a challenger's beliefs and take the defensive. The Guerrilla Apologetics books go beyond traditional apologetics books, teaching readers how to make convincing yet charitable arguments, instead of just giving answers to questions asked by challengers. “Guerrilla Apologetics for Catholics” features 10 questions to...