Catholic Answers

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{{short description|Non-profit organization in the US}}
{{distinguish|text=''The Catholic Answer'', a publication of ''[[Our Sunday Visitor]]''}}
{{Primary sources|date=July 2022}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox organization
| name = Catholic Answers
| logo = Catholic Answers logo.jpeg
| founder = [[Karl Keating]]
| website = {{Url|Catholic.com}}
}}
'''Catholic Answers''' is an American [[Catholicism|Catholic]] advocacy group based in [[El Cajon, California]].

==History==
Catholic Answers was founded in 1979 by [[Karl Keating]] in response to a [[Fundamentalist Christianity|fundamentalist]] [[Protestant]] church in [[San Diego, California|San Diego]] that was distributing [[anti-Catholic]] [[propaganda]] in the form of [[Tract (literature)|tracts]] placed on the cars of Catholics attending [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]]. He first 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 he quit his law practice and turned Catholic Answers into a full-time apostolate, with an office and full-time staff.<ref name=ryland>{{cite journal |url=https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/keating-for-the-defense-1066 |first1=Tim |last1=Ryland |title=Keating for the Defense |journal=Sursum Corda |via=[[EWTN]] |date=Spring 1996 |access-date=July 14, 2021 |archive-date=July 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714174232/https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/keating-for-the-defense-1066 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Catholic.com website received approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usccb.org/about/communications/upload/Catholic_New_Media_Use_in_United_States_2012.pdf |title=Catholic New Media Use in the United States, 2012 |publisher=[[Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate]], [[Georgetown University]] |location=Washington, D.C. |date=November 2012 |last1=Gray |first1=Mark M. |last2=Gautier |first2=Mary L. |access-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-date=February 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204035524/http://www.usccb.org/about/communications/upload/Catholic_New_Media_Use_in_United_States_2012.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Staff==
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[[Apologetics|Apologists]] who have worked for Catholic Answers include [[Trent Horn]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 7, 2018 |title=Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn addresses the 'isms' |url=https://todayscatholic.org/catholic-answers-apologist-trent-horn-addresses-the-isms/ |access-date=December 1, 2020 |website=Today's Catholic |language=en-US |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726020346/https://todayscatholic.org/catholic-answers-apologist-trent-horn-addresses-the-isms/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Jimmy Akin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jimmy Akin |url=https://www.catholic.com/profile/jimmy-akin |access-date=January 24, 2023 |website=Catholic Answers |archive-date=January 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230124074343/https://www.catholic.com/profile/jimmy-akin |url-status=live}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Lighthouse Catholic Media]]

==References==
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==External links==
*{{Official website|https://www.catholic.com/}}
*[http://forums.catholic.com/ Catholic Answers' forums] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108195006/http://forums.catholic.com/ |date=November 8, 2014 }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080820073518/http://oce.catholic.com/ Catholic Answers' Original Catholic Encyclopedia]

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