Catholic Answers Apologetics Conference
Did you know that Catholic Answers are having an apologetics conference in September? You’ve got until the end of the month to qualify for the early bird discount!
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Catholic Answers Talks
Somehow this completely passed me by. If you’re in the San Diego area, Catholic answers are having a series of free talks available this summer. Some of them have happened already, but there remaining talks are “The Gift of the Magisterium”, “Answering Atheism” and “Marriage Issues”:
Abortion: The kindest thing to do
If a child is going to be born into a tough world, isn’t it just kinder to abort the child? Trent Horn has a Catholic answer…
See you all tomorrow for the San Diego Walk For Life!
Another opportunity to become famous!
You may remember a while back, at the beginning of last year, that I did a post to advertise the recording of Matt Fradd’s new DVD “Be a man”…
Well, it’s filming time again! Our favourite Australian will be delivering a talk over in Santee at the end of February entitled “How to Win an Argument Without Losing a Soul”. The tickets are free, but you need to register. This morning there were only 46 seats left, so you’d better do it soooooon…..
Trent Horn
Trent Horn is one of the newest apologists at Catholic Answers and recently took up residence in the greatest city in America, San Diego. He recently launched a new blog TrentHorn.com:
It’s a bit bare at the moment, but I’d invite you to subscribe to his blog now as I’m sure the upcoming content will be top notch. If you want to get a feel for the kind of stuff which will be appearing there in the future, you can check out his appearances on Catholic Answers, as well as find many videos of him on YouTube discussing pro-life issues and debating atheists.
Oh yes, and it’s his birthday today. Happy birthday Trent 🙂
Tim > Chuck
Last month I went to the Catholic Answers Gala. Patrick Coffin was the Master of Ceremonies and introduced Tim Staples, the Director of Apologetics and Evangelization, with a series of Chuck Norris-like praises. I thought they deserved to be turned into memes:
TOT: The Reality of Porn
Last week we had the final session of our Theology On Tap series here in San Diego. I had not encountered Theology on Tap (ToT) until I came to America so, in case you have not been exposed to it, it’s an outreach and catechesis initiative embraced by many Catholic dioceses as part of their Young Adult ministry.
Typically what happens at ToT is that the Catholic Young Adults from a diocese take over a bar or restaurant. They eat some food, drink a beer and then listen to a talk given by a speaker. The idea behind ToT is to give young Catholics an opportunity to hang out together (or if you want to be super-spiritual about it, “fellowship”) and learn about the faith in a relaxed, informal setting.
The talk was entitled: “The Reality Behind the Fantasy of Porn : An interview with an ex-porn star who shares her story”. The chap conducting the interview was Matt Fradd, a recent addition to the Catholic Answers team. He’s been involved in the area of chastity for some time and, in particular, helping men and women recover from pornography. Recently I went to the recording of his new DVD, The Man Talk.
During this final session of ToT, Matt interviewed his friend April, who was in the porn industry for some time, but who now works to help those who wish to get out of that life.
The porn industry is massive and, as the title of the talk suggests, the purpose of the interview is to show the reality of porn, rather than the fantasy which is so often sold to us. As Matt says in his talk Taking Down Goliath, the problem with porn is not that it shows too much, but that it shows too little, reducing a woman to a collection of body parts to be lusted after, rather than a person to be loved.
Main Talk (Download)
Q&A (Download)
(The intro/outro music is Public Domain and available here)
UPDATE: During the talk Matt mentions an interview he did with a girl who had recently become a stripper. The interview is available here on his blog.