Jesus says that “Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him” (Jn 5:23-24). Yet the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that Muslims, who deny the Incarnation, still “adore the one, merciful God” (CCC 841). How can this be so? Tim Staples explains why there’s not a contradiction here.
We’re familiar with the apostles and the authors of the New Testament, but how many of us know the apostolic Fathers? They were the Christian leaders who followed immediately the age of the apostles, and many of them knew and interacted with Jesus’ original disciples. Who were they, why are they important to our Faith, and what startling revelations are contained in their writings? This talk is an excerpt from the 2019 Catholic Answers Annual Conference.
Trent Horn debates a caller on Catholic Answers Live who argues that a human fetus is not a living person until it’s outside of the womb.
If we jumped into a time machine, traveled back to the first centuries of the Church, and asked Christians what they believed about the seven sacraments, would we feel we were among Catholic brethren? Karlo says yes, and he shows, using the writings of the early Fathers, that their belief regarding the sacraments is the same belief the Catholic Church professes today.
In this episode, Trent sits down with Katrina Zeno, coordinator of the John Paul II Resource Center, to discuss Pope St. John Paul II’s teaching on men, women, and the goodness of our God-given sexuality. Welcome to the Council of Trent Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
In this episode Trent continues his discussion with Katrina Zeno, coordinator of the John Paul II Resource Center, about the Theology of the Body and how to implement its teachings in our own lives. Welcome to the Council of Trent podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
In this episode Trent discussed the death of George Floyd as well as the protests and violence that have broken out in several major cities as a result. He also talks about how we as Catholics should keep the Gospel at the center of our response to racism, police brutality, and other unjustifiable violence.
Modern accounts of personhood fail because they do not explain deep-seated moral intuitions about the value of human life.
The 2008 film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (based on a novel of the same name) is a fictional story about the friendship between an eight-year-old son of a Nazi concentration camp officer and another eight-year-old who is one of the camp’s prisoners. The boy, named Bruno, thinks the camp is merely a farm and asks his father why the farmers “wear pajamas” (which are actually inmate uniforms). Bruno’s father begins his answer, ominously:
New Age is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of spiritual, philosophical, and theological thought developing in the West since the eighteenth century, mainly in counterpoint to (if not in direct reaction against) the rationalism of the Enlightenment. New Age suggests that adherents are seeking to usher in a new phase in human history (i.e., a “new age” or new epoch) through their spiritual practices and their philosophical and theological developments of traditional Western religious thought and practice.
Tim Staples answers a caller who asks why the early Church did not include the Book of Enoch in the Bible.
Jesus instructed his followers to “call no man father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven” (Mt. 23:9). How are we to understand the meaning of this command? Jimmy Akin explains..
Here Tim Stables, Director of Apologetics adn Evangelization at Catholic Answers, responds to a query from a listener of the radio show, on what is the position of the Catholic Church on the End of the World. Tim outlines Catholic teaching on Heaven and what it will be like based on what we know from scripture and the teaching of the Catholic church, among other insights.