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Catholic Answers
FounderKarl Keating
Websitecatholic.com

Catholic Answers is a Catholic advocacy group based in El Cajon, California. It describes itself as 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]

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.[4]

The Catholic.com website receives approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.[5]

Staff

Apologists who have worked for Catholic Answers include Trent Horn,[6][7] Tim Staples, Karlo Broussard, Joe Heschmeyer, and Jimmy Akin.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Catholic Answers Magazine". catholic.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2011. Retrieved December 12, 2005.
  2. ^ "Radio". catholic.com. Archived from the original on March 21, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
  3. ^ "Catholic Radio- EWTN Catholic Radio Network". EWTN. Archived from the original on June 24, 2014. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
  4. ^ Ryland, Tim (Spring 1996). "Keating for the Defense". Sursum Corda. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021 – via EWTN.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "Trent Horn". Catholic Answers. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
  8. ^ "Jimmy Akin". Catholic Answers. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved January 24, 2023.

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