objections

Class date: 03/03/2019

What is marriage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWIhZ5xJJaQ

Questions about marriage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWC22S8FtJs

Articles:

• Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection | Public Discourse
• Marriage and Procreation: Avoiding Bad Arguments | Public Discourse
• How to Make the Case for Marriage (SSM: Our Agreements Solve Our Disagreement) | Catholic Answers
• Four Responses to the ...

Class date: 03 Mar 2019

Opening prayer: Come Holy Spirit

1. How did we get here?
   • 1996: Defense of Marriage Act, signed by Pres. Clinton
   • 1996: Oregon – One Man + One Woman
   • 2000:
     “Marriage has historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think ...

Class date: 4/22/18

Not only was "sola fide" one of the slogans of the Protestant Reformation, the differences in understanding the closely-related concepts of justification and salvation often lie at the root of other disagreements, for example the necessity and value of Purgatory.

Salvation / Justification / Faith Alone

A ...

Class date: 18 Mar 2018

Purgatory & Prayer for the Dead

• Open with prayer

1. How are purgatory and praying for the dead related? (Praying for the dead only makes sense if there is a Purgatory, i.e. a place where the dead can be helped by our prayers.)
2. What does the ...

Class date: 10/15/17
If you missed class or want to review:

• Five Philosophical Mistakes Every Catholic Apologist Should Be Aware Of, by Tom Harmon, This Rock, Jan. 2005 **
• “The Problem of Evil,” by Matt Fradd, Catholic Answers Blog, July 9, 2013 **
• Answering Atheist Slogans, by ...

• Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

1. 1. Objection 8: (from a Protestant site) When it came to the Old Testament, three important facts were considered: 1) The New Testament quotes from or alludes to every Old Testament book but two. 2) Jesus effectively endorsed the Hebrew canon in Matthew 23:35 ...

• Prayer: Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit

1. Summary / recap - Last time, we discussed how we know what belongs in the Bible.
   1. Both the contents of the Old and the New Testaments were debated in the early Church. Some NT books, including Hebrews, 2 Peter, 2 & 3 John ...