Catholic Answers
Catholic Answers is a Catholic advocacy group based in El Cajon, California. It purports to be the largest lay-run apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. It publishes Catholic Answers Magazine,[1] a bimonthly magazine focusing on Catholic outreach, religious formation and apologetics, as well as the website catholic.com. It also produces Catholic Answers Live,[2] a radio show answering callers' questions on a variety of topics related to the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church. Catholic Answers Live is syndicated on the EWTN radio network.[3]
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| Founder | Karl Keating |
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| Website | catholic |
Catholic Answers operates with the permission of the Diocese of San Diego. It is listed in the current edition of The Official Catholic Directory,[4] the authoritative listing of U.S. Catholic organisations, priests, and bishops.
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History
Catholic Answers was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a fundamentalist Protestant church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass. He first started by writing a modest tract titled "Catholic Answers" to counter the arguments he saw in the anti-Catholic tract. He distributed it on the windshields of the cars in the fundamentalist Protestant church's parking lot. Due to the feedback he received from that tract, he published 24 more tracts. In 1988 he quit his law practice and turned Catholic Answers into a full-time apostolate, with an office and full-time staff.[5]
The Catholic.com website receives approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.[6]
Staff
Apologists currently working for Catholic Answers include Senior Apologist Tim Staples; Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin; Catholic Answers Live radio host Cy Kellett; and staff apologists Karlo Broussard, Trent Horn,[7] and Joe Heschmeyer.
See also
References
- "Catholic Answers Magazine". catholic.com.
- "Radio". catholic.com.
- "Catholic Radio- EWTN Catholic Radio Network". ewtn.com.
- "Apologetics - Official Catholic Directory". officialcatholicdirectory.com.
- Tim Ryland (Spring 1996). "Keating for the Defense". Sursum Corda (republished on EWTN.com).
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-04. Retrieved 2014-09-03.
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