Choose a topic from Vol 1:
God
God's existence known by reasonNature of God
Providence of God and Problem of Evil
Man
Nature of manExistence and nature of the soul
Immortality of the soul
Destiny of the soul
Freewill of man
Religion
Nature of religionNecessity of religion
The Religion of the Bible
Natural religionRevealed religion
Mysteries of religion
Miracles
Value of the Gospels
Inspiration of the Bible
Old Testament difficulties
New Testament difficulties
The Christian Faith
The religion of the JewsTruth of Christianity
Nature and necessity of faith
A Definite Christian Faith
Conflicting ChurchesAre all one Church?
Is one religion as good as another?
The fallacy of indifference
The Failure of Protestantism
Protestantism erroneousLuther
Anglicanism
Greek Orthodox Church
Wesley
Baptists
Adventists
Salvation Army
Witnesses of Jehovah
Christian Science
Theosophy
Spiritualism
Catholic intolerance
The Truth of Catholicism
Nature of the ChurchThe true Church
Hierarchy of the Church
The Pope
Temporal power
Infallibility
Unity
Holiness
Catholicity
Apostolicity
Indefectibility
Outside the Church no salvation
The Catholic Church and the Bible
Not opposed to the BibleThe reading of the Bible
Protestants and the Bible
Bible Only a false principle
The necessity of Tradition
The authority of the Catholic Church
The Church and Her Dogmas
Dogmatic truthDevelopment of dogma
Dogma and reason
Rationalism
The Holy Trinity
Creation
Angels
Devils
Man
Sin
Christ
Mary
Grace and salvation
The Sacraments
Baptism
Confirmation
Confession
Holy Eucharist
The Sacrifice of the Mass
Holy Communion
Priesthood
Matrimony
Divorce
Extreme Unction
Judgment
The Millenium
Hell
Purgatory
Prayer for the Dead
Indulgences
Heaven
The resurrection of the body
The general Judgment
The End of the World
The Church in Her Moral Teachings
VeracityMental restriction
Charity
Ecclesiastical censures
Liberty
Index of Prohibited Books
Persecution
The Inquisition
Jesuits
Catholic Intolerance
Protestant services
Freemasonry
Cremation
Gambling
Prohibition of drink
Sunday Observance
Fasting
Celibacy
Convent life
Mixed Marriages
Birth control
The Church in Her Worship
Holy WaterGenuflection
Sign of the Cross
Images
Liturgical ceremonial
Spiritual Healing
The use of Latin
Devotion to Mary
The Rosary
The Angelus
Devotion to the Saints
The worship of relics
The Church and Social Welfare
Poverty of CatholicsCatholic and Protestant countries
The Church and education
The Social Problem
The Church and Capitalism
The Church and the Worker
Socialism
Catholic Apologetics in Question & Answer Form
There are currently 6,863 Questions & Answers about the Catholic Church and her teachings in the five books listed on this site.Vol 1 : 1,588 questions and answers on Catholicism and Protestantism that arose over the 5 years to 1938 from a "Question and Answer" radio program from the Catholic Station 2SM on Sunday evening at 7-8pm.
Vol 2 : 1,422 questions and answers over 7 years since Vol 1 which reflect "our own experience of the needs of today with its denial of the supernatural, its driftage from religion, its adoption of a purely secular basis of life, and its widespread repudiation of those Christian standards of morality which, if not always observed in practice, have at least not hitherto been seriously challenged and denied." (Author's foreword)
Vol 3 : a further 1,354 questions and answers. The three volumes to date "contain but a classified selection of typical questions and answers chosen from a vast mass of material accumulated during twelve years of radio work and public lectures in which non-Catholics were encouraged to express their difficulties in accepting Catholicism."
Vol 4 : 1,650 questions and answers on Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Paganism and Communism from the radio information session over the 13 years from 1941 to 1954.
Vol 5 : 839 questions and answers from the years 1962 to 1968 prompted in great part by the decisions of the Second Vatican Council.
While the fundamentals of Catholic doctrine have not changed, there has been change in aspects of the Church's life e.g. the Index was abolished, we can eat meat on Friday and, more importantly, we had Vatican II.
Reading the justification for a rule or practice now abolished, one can still appreciate the wisdom of the rule even though for some other reason the authorities have now chosen to abandoned it. For example, how many people understand the danger to their spiritual life in reading "atheistic" literature or pornography? Protection was the point of the Index. How aware are we now of the "occasions of sin"?
Another interesting aspect of these questions is that they form a record of sorts of what was important to thinking men in decades gone by. For example, browse the questions on
- socialism
- war
- communism
and you get a vivid sense of the "hot issues" of the day. The consistency of the Church's teaching, the faithfulness to the Gospel message through all controversies is consoling. It is a help to faith in our troubled times. "This too will pass".
It is interesting to browse some of today's issues in the Search function:
- birth control
- euthansia
- women priests
- sex before marriage
- annulment
- divorce
- religious education
- abortion
- ecumenism
- atheism
- secularism
- infallibility
Enjoy browsing.
- Mgsr Fulton Sheen in Preface to Vol 3 (1942)
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