Catholic Answers
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| Founder | Karl Keating |
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| Website | catholic |
Catholic Answers is a Catholic advocacy group based in El Cajon, California.
History
[edit]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.[1]
The Catholic.com website receives approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.[2]
Staff
[edit]Apologists who have worked for Catholic Answers include Trent Horn,[3] Tim Staples, Karlo Broussard, Joe Heschmeyer, and Jimmy Akin.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Ryland, Tim (Spring 1996). "Keating for the Defense". Sursum Corda. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021 – via EWTN.
- ^ Gray, Mark M.; Gautier, Mary L. (November 2012). "Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
- ^ "Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn addresses the 'isms'". Today's Catholic. November 7, 2018. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
- ^ "Jimmy Akin". Catholic Answers. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Catholic Answers' forums Archived November 8, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- Catholic Answers' Original Catholic Encyclopedia