Join us in the Catholic Study Group every Monday night at 6:45 p.m. in the upper classroom of the St. Anthony Parish Spiritual Center in Tamuning to study the answers to 70 tough questions about the Faith. Our series will commence on Monday, November 11, 2024. Take a look at what we have in mind, and if you are interested click the button below to sign up for the WhatsApp notice group and our email list.
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Our Text:
The Essential Catholic Survival Guide: Answers to Tough Questions About the Faith. This book is a compilation of 70 of the best tracts from Catholic Answers.
Available on Amazon.com here, in Kindle format ($9.99) or paperback ($19.60), or at Catholic Answers here in epub or mobi format ($12.99) or softcover ($29.95). It is also available from Barnes and Noble here in Nook format ($9.99) or paperback ($29.95).
If you choose to buy the ebook from Catholic Answers, then you might find the Calibre ebook reader to work well on your desktop PC and the ReadEra app on your cellphone.
General Format of Each Meeting
- Opening Prayer
- Recap of last time
- The group will read the text in a round robin fashion. Reading will be punctuated with opportunities for members of the study group to comment and to consult the passages from the Sacred Scriptures referenced by the text.
- Closing Prayer
Other Things
- Meeting topics will be announced via email, WhatsApp, and Facebook prior to each meeting.
- Come when you can. Attendance will not be taken.
- Bring your Bible!
- There will be no lectures or assigned homework, but members of the study group are encouraged to follow up on questions on their own.
- Newcomers are always welcome!
Topics
- Peter and the Papacy
- Peter the Rock
- Was Peter in Rome?
- Papal Infallibility
- Scripture and Tradition
- Proving Inspiration
- “What’s Your Authority?”
- Can Dogma Develop?
- Bible Translations Guide
- Praying to the Saints
- Saint Worship
- Do Catholics Worship Statues?
- Relics
- “Brethren of the Lord”
- Immaculate Conception and Assumption
- The Rosary
- Infant Baptism
- Baptism: Immersion Only?
- Christ in the Eucharist
- The Institution of the Mass
- Who Can Receive Communion?
- Anointing of the Sick
- Call No Man Father?
- Celibacy and the Priesthood
- The Forgiveness of Sins
- Primer on Indulgences
- Myths about Indulgences
- Grace: What It Is and What It Does
- Are Catholics Born Again?
- Assurance of Salvation?
- How to Become a Catholic
- Purgatory
- The Rapture
- Hunting the Whore of Babylon
- The Whore of Babylon
- Birth Control
- Homosexuality
- Adam, Eve, and Evolution
- The Galileo Controversy
- The Anti-Catholic Bible
- Anti-Catholic Whoppers
- Catholic “Inventions”
- More Catholic “Inventions”
- Is Catholicism Pagan?
- The Inquisition
- Exposing Catholicism: Crisis of Faith
- The Great Heresies
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Fundamentalism
- Fundamentalist or Catholic?
- How to Talk with Fundamentalists
- Seventh-Day Adventism
- History of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Distinctive Beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- The God of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Strategies of the Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Are They Awake on the Watchtower?
- Stumpers for Jehovah’s Witnesses
- More Stumpers for Jehovah’s Witnesses
- Distinctive Beliefs of the Mormon Church
- The Gods of the Mormon Church
- Problems with the Book of Mormon
- Mormonism’s Baptism for the Dead
- Mormon Stumpers
- Iglesia ni Cristo
- The Lost Tribes of Israel
- Starting Out As an Apologist
- The Apologist’s Bookshelf
- Common Catholic Prayers
- Scriptural Reference Guide
Other Resources
- Catholic Answers Tract Web Pages
- Bible Study Tools for Catholics
- Study Group Resources for the Roman Catechism
A Variety of Catholic Apologetics Tracts in PDF
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