Catholic Answers#Catholic Answers Magazine
{{short description|Non-profit organization in the US}}
{{distinguish|text=The Catholic Answer, a publication of Our Sunday Visitor}}
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| founder = Karl Keating
| website = {{Url|Catholic.com}}
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Catholic Answers is a Catholic advocacy group based in El Cajon, California.
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.{{cite journal |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/keating-for-the-defense-1066 |first1=Tim |last1=Ryland |title=Keating for the Defense |journal=Sursum Corda |via=EWTN |date=Spring 1996 |access-date=July 14, 2021 |archive-date=July 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714174232/https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/keating-for-the-defense-1066 |url-status=live}}
The Catholic.com website receives approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.{{Cite web |url=http://www.usccb.org/about/communications/upload/Catholic_New_Media_Use_in_United_States_2012.pdf |title=Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012 |publisher=Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University |location=Washington, D.C. |date=November 2012 |last1=Gray |first1=Mark M. |last2=Gautier |first2=Mary L. |access-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204035524/http://www.usccb.org/about/communications/upload/Catholic_New_Media_Use_in_United_States_2012.pdf |url-status=dead}}
Staff
Apologists who have worked for Catholic Answers include Trent Horn,{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2018 |title=Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn addresses the 'isms' |url=https://todayscatholic.org/catholic-answers-apologist-trent-horn-addresses-the-isms/ |access-date=December 1, 2020 |website=Today's Catholic |language=en-US |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726020346/https://todayscatholic.org/catholic-answers-apologist-trent-horn-addresses-the-isms/ |url-status=live}} Tim Staples, Karlo Broussard, Joe Heschmeyer, and Jimmy Akin.{{Cite web |title=Jimmy Akin |url=https://www.catholic.com/profile/jimmy-akin |access-date=January 24, 2023 |website=Catholic Answers |archive-date=January 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124074343/https://www.catholic.com/profile/jimmy-akin |url-status=live}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.catholic.com/}}
- [http://forums.catholic.com/ Catholic Answers' forums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108195006/http://forums.catholic.com/ |date=November 8, 2014 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820073518/http://oce.catholic.com/ Catholic Answers' Original Catholic Encyclopedia]
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Category:Catholic advocacy groups
Category:Christian organizations established in 1979
Category:1979 establishments in the United States
Category:Christian apologetics