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is under discussion over at the National Catholic Register<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

To that, I want to add my gratitude for the work of Karl Keating and Catholic Answers. \u00a0He is really and truly the Patriarch of the Renaissance of Apologetics in the US (and, to be honest, the world) in the years after Vatican II when that whole project went into the doldrums as the Church tried to figure out the New Normal. \u00a0As the story goes, he left Mass one morning to find the cars in the parking lot leafletted with anti-Catholic rubbish and, instead of doing nothing, started writing replies to that rubbish in a little newsletter that became This Rock<\/em>. \u00a0This was sometime in the 80s. \u00a0Then he founded Catholic Answers and started the arduous task of replying to the great fountain of anti-Catholic rubbish coming from multiple sectors of American culture. \u00a0Fundamentalism, the New Age, atheism, Radical Traddery, Scientism, you name it: Karl Keating was there to give his measured, thoughtful replies. \u00a0His Catholicism and Fundmentalism<\/a><\/em> was helpful to me on my way into the Church back in the late 80s. \u00a0And he has been\u00a0a huge help to millions of other souls too.<\/p>\n

CA calls itself, rightly, the largest evangelization and apologetics organization in North America, but this is not quite accurate. \u00a0The truth is, it\u2019s the largest in the world. \u00a0I hear constantly from people in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia who use and look to Catholic Answers materials for their own work. \u00a0Karl\u2019s work has already had and will continue to have eternal consequences for the good of countless souls, including mine, and I will be forever grateful to him and the good folks at Catholic Answers for choosing to serve Christ so faithfully.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"