Catholic Answers

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Catholic Answers
Founder Karl Keating
Website catholic.com

Catholic Answers is an American Catholic advocacy group based in El Cajon, California.

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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 comic tracts, called "Chick tracts", placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass. [1] He 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 Keating quit his law practice and turned Catholic Answers into a full-time apostolate, with an office and full-time staff. [2] That same year, Keating published the book, Catholicism and Fundamentalism, a compilation of apologetics newspaper articles that he had written during a 30-week stretch which became a popular Catholic apologetics book. [3]

In 1990 the original newsletter of Keating's organization was replaced with This Rock, a magazine and journal focused on Catholic apologetics and evangelization. Still in print after 30 years, the publication is now known as Catholic Answers Magazine. [4]

The Catholic.com website received approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate. [5]

Staff

Apologists who have worked for Catholic Answers include Trent Horn [6] , Tim Staples, [7] and Jimmy Akin. [8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Meet Jack Chick". Catholic Answers. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  2. ↑ Ryland, Tim (Spring 1996). "Keating for the Defense". Sursum Corda. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2021– via EWTN.
  3. ↑ "About". Catholic Answers. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  4. ↑ "About". Catholic Answers. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  5. ↑ Gray, Mark M.; Gautier, Mary L. (November 2012). "Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012" (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 4, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn addresses the 'isms'". Today's Catholic. November 7, 2018. Archived from the original on July 26, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Tim Staples, Senior Apologist". Catholic Answers. Retrieved December 14, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Jimmy Akin". Catholic Answers. Archived from the original on January 24, 2023. Retrieved January 24, 2023.
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