Whose Bible Is It, Anyway?
KARL KEATING Most Protestants are at a loss when asked how they know that the 66 books in their Bibles belong in it. (They are at an even greater loss to explain why the seven additional books appearing in Catholic Bibles are missing from theirs.) For them the Bible “just is.” They take it as […]
Communion Questions Just Keep Coming
KARL KEATING Tuesday is my day to field questions on the nationally syndicated “Catholic Answers Live” call-in radio program. Almost every week someone asks whether a non-Catholic may receive Communion at a Catholic parish or a Catholic may take the “Lord’s Supper” at a non-Catholic church. My answer always begins with Canon 844 of the […]
Catholics and Fundamentalists
Karl Keating At times Fundamentalists talk as if they thought no case could be made for the Catholic faith. That’s understandable. After all, if you’re a Fundamentalist instead of a Catholic, it is because you reject Catholicism. You reject it because you think it is false. But make sure what you’re rejecting is Catholicism, not […]
Catholicism and Fundamentalism—The Eucharist
KARL KEATING Fundamentalist attacks on the Church always come around, as they must, to the Eucharist. Fundamentalist attacks on the Church always come around, as they must, to the Eucharist. Keith Green devoted the first of his Catholic Chronicles to what he acknowledged to be the core devotional doctrine of Catholics, and he was smart to do […]
Catholicism and Fundamentalism — Food for the Mind
KARL KEATING Keating’s book provides an impressively researched and eminently readable defense of Catholicism against the critical attacks of fundamentalists. We are pleased to offer Chapter 25, “Food for the Mind” from this masterful book. In it, the author suggests a number of approaches which might be adopted and books that have proved particularly useful […]
Was Peter in Rome?
Karl Keating Like other Protestants, Fundamentalists say Christ never appointed Peter as the earthly head for the simple reason that the Church has no earthly head and was never meant to have one. Christ is the Church’s only foundation, in any possible sense of that term. The papacy, they say, arose out of fifth- or […]
Peter’s Successors
Karl Keating In other Fathers Know Best tracts we have shown that the Fathers recognized Peter as the rock on which Jesus declared he would build his Church; that this gave Peter a special primacy; and that Peter traveled to Rome, where he was martyred. In this tract we will show that the Fathers also […]
Peter’s Roman Residency
Karl Keating In other Fathers Know Best tracts we have shown that Jesus made Peter the rock on which the Church is built and that this gave Peter a special primacy. Here we will show that Peter went to the city of Rome and was martyred there. In order to escape the truth of the […]
Peter’s Primacy
Karl Keating In another Fathers Know Best tract, Peter the Rock, we showed that the early Church Fathers recognized that Peter is the rock of whom Christ spoke when he said, “You are Peter and on this rock I will build my Church.” This tract highlights some of the implications of that fact. Because Peter was […]
Peter the Rock
Karl Keating One of the points I try to emphasize when giving a seminar is that you can begin to be an effective apologist right away; you don’t have to wait until you become a theological whiz. Just work with what you know, even if it’s only one fact. I illustrate this from my own […]