There is a general assumption, especially in North America and Europe, that the Catholic Church's insistence on a male priesthood is an obscure anomaly, which endures only because a Polish pope has refused to move with the times.
After establishing the biblical basis of the early Churchs belief in the real presence Keating goes on to answer all the main objections of fundamentalists to the Holy Eucharist.
Keating's book provides an impressively researched and eminently readable defense of Catholicism against the critical attacks of fundamentalists.
To halt this "soul drain," to answer the fundamentalist challenge and, most of all, to understand our faith better, Peter Kreeft looks at five major points of conflict...
Recently, two Jehovah Witnesses rang Karl Keating's doorbell. Karl gave them plenty to think about.
"Have you been born again?" the Fundamentalist at the door asks the unsuspecting Catholic.
The existence of suffering in a world created by a good and almighty God — "the problem of pain" — is a fundamental theological dilemma, and perhaps the most serious objection to the Christian religion.
In this article, Peter Kreeft outlines the arguments from cause and effect, from conscience, from history, and the argument known as Pascal's Wager.
Many theologians, especially feminists, consider the Church Fathers the last place to look for any positive statements on the authority of women.
In order to see clearly that New Age practices, like Transcendental Meditation and centering prayer, depart from the Catholic tradition, Father Dreher outlines the differences between Christian spirituality and Eastern spirituality.
