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Karl Keating (born 1950), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers. Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position. ...
Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is one of the largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. ...
He received his undergraduate degree in Applied Math at UCSD in 1972 and went on to get a J.D. at the University of San Diego. He worked as an attorney practicing civil law in the early 1980s. Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...
Leaving Mass one Sunday in 1979, he found tracts opposing Catholic practice on the windshields of the cars in the church parking lot. He wrote his own tract in reply and distributed copies of it at the Fundamentalist church responsible for the tract. That was the start of what has become the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization. Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ...
Keating's book Catholicism and Fundamentalism was based on a 1988 series that ran for 30 weeks in The Wanderer. It is a perennial bestseller for its publisher, Ignatius Press. Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Wanderer is a Roman Catholic weekly newspaper published in St. ...
In August 1986, the first Catholic Answers Newsletter was published. In January 1990, Catholic Answers published the monthly magazine This Rock. For nine years, Keating served as the editor. Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is one of the largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is one of the largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. ...
In 1988, Keating changed careers and went into apologetics full time. He gives talks throughout the United States, and also engages in public debates with Protestants.
He has been a columnist for The Wanderer, the National Catholic Register and the Canadian Catholic Review. He has also acted as expert on EWTN's Questions and Answers forum. His avocations include mountain biking, hiking, backpacking, "Jeeping", and flying. Keating is also an avid fan of sharp bone structures, especially those containing a prominent jaw. [citation needed] The National Catholic Register is the oldest national Roman Catholic newspaper in the United States. ...
The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is a U.S.-based broadcasting network that carries Catholic-themed programming, including a Daily Mass from its Irondale Monastery/Studios, talk shows such as EWTN Live and Sunday Night Live, Daily Rosary, Benediction, doctrinal instruction programs, entertainment/variety shows, childrens programming, live...
A 2004 complaint to the Internal Revenue Service by Catholics for a Free Choice led to an IRS investigation of Catholic Answers that Keating described as costly and onerous. As a result, he formed a new organization with a separate 501(c)(4) tax status, called Catholic Answers Action, that continued publishing his "Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics" [1], containing positions on five "non-negotiable" issues (abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and homosexual marriage) and instructing readers not to vote for candidates on the wrong side of those issues. Some diocesan lawyers in California and Wisconsin [2] had earlier attempted to suppress this voting guide in 2004. No official condemnation of this guide has been offered by Catholic Bishops or any official Church body. Catholics for a Free Choice (CFFC) is a pro-choice organization for Catholics who disagree with the teachings of the church on matters such as abortion, contraception, divorce and homosexuality. ...
501(c) is a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)), listing twenty-eight types of non-profit organizations exempt from some Federal income taxes. ...
Books
- Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" (Ignatius Press, 1988)
- What Catholics Really Believe (Servant Publications, 1992)
- Nothing but the Truth: Essays in Apologetics (Catholic Answers, 2000)
- The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists (Ignatius Press, 2000)
- Controversies: High-Level Catholic Apologetics (Ignatius Press, 2001)
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