Catholicity - Apologetics For Our Time

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,      An interesting phenomenon is taking place: some former atheists and agnostics who seriously investigate Christianity are becoming Catholic — not Protestant.      Now, before anyone gets upset at that, it does not mean that most atheists or agnostics are becoming Catholic. In my experience, these people are quite reluctant to give up their beliefs - or lack of them.      We are also not trying to say that every intellectual seeker of religion reaches the same conclusion.      But we are seeing recent converts who were  compelled to approach religion through history, philosophy and evidence  encountering Catholicism... and discovering their faith in The Church. 1. From the simplistic To Bigger Questions      Serious skeptics eventually confront questions atheism or agnosticism alone do not easily settle: - Why does anything exist? - Can objective morality exist...

What To Do With People Attacking Your Faith How Catholics should Respond to Common Protestant Obstructions "There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be." - Bishop Fulton J. Sheen Dear brothers and sisters in Christ....      The above image and quote by Fulton Sheen highlights something every Catholic will encounter at some point: Catholic prejudice. If youre Catholic, you can expect to be assailed sooner or later by non-Catholics for your faith, and about The Church. It has been that way for a very long time, in fact, since the Protestant reformation. That movement started with anti-Catholic belligerence and it has not abated in the 500 years since. It is THEIR reaction to US, however; keep that in mind as we go along.     And h ere's what you have to remember... very often, if not most of the time, non-Catholics are ...