Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage: How to Sanely Explain the Catholic Teaching

If someone asked you, “What do Catholics believe about homosexuality?” would you be ready to give an answer based on Scripture, theology, and natural law? In this video lesson on homosexuality, we give everything you need to answer confidently that question as a Catholic.

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Contraception: How to Explain the Catholic Teaching on Human Sexuality

Contraception is the most controversial topic in Catholicism. In this lesson, we will examine the biblical, historical, theological, and philosophical reasons for why the Catholic Church maintains its teaching against contraception.

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Drugs, Marijuana, and Alcohol: A Catholic Teaching on Intoxication

Today we examine why using drugs or alcohol to enter impaired intellectual states is not only wrong, but constitutes grave sin.

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Forum Focus 33: Does your religion make you happy and content to face life?

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OxTalk 08: Lesser Known Facts about Thomas Aquinas

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Forum Focus 32: Evolution and Genesis

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What is Apologetics?

So what is apologetics? The word Apologetics comes from the Greek word apologia meaning “defense.” Saint Peter, our first Pope wrote in 1 Peter 3:15 that we should always be ready to give a defense of the hope that is within us. Here Saint Peter uses the Greek word “apologia” for the word “defense”

It does not entail “I’m sorry,” rather it entails “I defend this.” So it is a defense of the Christian Faith in its totality.

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Forum Focus 31: Did the Father turn his face away from the Son on the Cross?

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Tools of the Catholic Apologist

Tools make work easier. It’s difficult to build a house without a saw or hammer. It’s even easier if you have access to a circular saw and a nail gun! Believe it or not, there are theological tools that can make you more effective and save you time. In this lesson, you’ll be introduced the circular saws and nail guns of theology. There are 2 lessons, Tools Part 1 and Tools Part 2 below:

[Links to many of the free resources mentioned in the video lesson are linked below in the notes.]

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Forum Focus 30: Cardinals and Divorce and Remarriage

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