Tips for Defending the Faith

Questions Covered:

• 04:47 - Could you comment on arguments against legal abortion based on it allowing people to make lazy decisions? 
• 12:08 - My son has a buddha statue in his home. My wife and I were invited over to dinner. I don’t feel comfortable going over because of how scandalous it is. What’s your advice? 
• 20:21 - How do you respond to atheists who say you’re only Catholic because you grew up that way? 
• 29:44 - How do you respond to a protestant who explains away Marian apparitions as demonic? 
• 36:38 - Gavin Ortland claimed that the Church Fathers would not agree with what the Church became by the 1500’s. How would one debunk that? 
• 45:58 - How do you reply to someone who says the Catholic version of baptism because of the sprinkling of water instead of submersion? 
• 49:43 - We are studying centering prayer in our Catholic book club. The book by Fr. Thomas Keating says that we are God and my parish priest says St. Athanasius backs this up. Can you clarify?