Choose a topic from Vol 1:

God

God's existence known by reason
Nature of God
Providence of God and Problem of Evil

Man

Nature of man
Existence and nature of the soul
Immortality of the soul
Destiny of the soul
Freewill of man

Religion

Nature of religion
Necessity of religion

The Religion of the Bible

Natural religion
Revealed religion
Mysteries of religion
Miracles
Value of the Gospels
Inspiration of the Bible
Old Testament difficulties
New Testament difficulties

The Christian Faith

The religion of the Jews
Truth of Christianity
Nature and necessity of faith

A Definite Christian Faith

Conflicting Churches
Are all one Church?
Is one religion as good as another?
The fallacy of indifference

The Failure of Protestantism

Protestantism erroneous
Luther
Anglicanism
Greek Orthodox Church
Wesley
Baptists
Adventists
Salvation Army
Witnesses of Jehovah
Christian Science
Theosophy
Spiritualism
Catholic intolerance

The Truth of Catholicism

Nature of the Church
The true Church
Hierarchy of the Church
The Pope
Temporal power
Infallibility
Unity
Holiness
Catholicity
Apostolicity
Indefectibility
Outside the Church no salvation

The Catholic Church and the Bible

Not opposed to the Bible
The reading of the Bible
Protestants and the Bible
Bible Only a false principle
The necessity of Tradition
The authority of the Catholic Church

The Church and Her Dogmas

Dogmatic truth
Development of dogma
Dogma and reason
Rationalism
The Holy Trinity
Creation
Angels
Devils
Man
Sin
Christ
Mary
Grace and salvation
The Sacraments
Baptism
Confirmation
Confession
Holy Eucharist
The Sacrifice of the Mass
Holy Communion
Priesthood
Matrimony
Divorce
Extreme Unction
Judgment
The Millenium
Hell
Purgatory
Prayer for the Dead
Indulgences
Heaven
The resurrection of the body
The general Judgment
The End of the World

The Church in Her Moral Teachings

Veracity
Mental restriction
Charity
Ecclesiastical censures
Liberty
Index of Prohibited Books
Persecution
The Inquisition
Jesuits
Catholic Intolerance
Protestant services
Freemasonry
Cremation
Gambling
Prohibition of drink
Sunday Observance
Fasting
Celibacy
Convent life
Mixed Marriages
Birth control

The Church in Her Worship

Holy Water
Genuflection
Sign of the Cross
Images
Liturgical ceremonial
Spiritual Healing
The use of Latin
Devotion to Mary
The Rosary
The Angelus
Devotion to the Saints
The worship of relics

The Church and Social Welfare

Poverty of Catholics
Catholic and Protestant countries
The Church and education
The Social Problem
The Church and Capitalism
The Church and the Worker
Socialism

Catholic Apologetics in Question & Answer Form

There are currently 6,863 Questions & Answers about the Catholic Church and her teachings in the five books listed on this site.

Vol 1 : 1,588 questions and answers on Catholicism and Protestantism that arose over the 5 years to 1938 from a "Question and Answer" radio program from the Catholic Station 2SM on Sunday evening at 7-8pm.

Vol 2 : 1,422 questions and answers over 7 years since Vol 1 which reflect "our own experience of the needs of today with its denial of the supernatural, its driftage from religion, its adoption of a purely secular basis of life, and its widespread repudiation of those Christian standards of morality which, if not always observed in practice, have at least not hitherto been seriously challenged and denied." (Author's foreword)

Vol 3 : a further 1,354 questions and answers. The three volumes to date "contain but a classified selection of typical questions and answers chosen from a vast mass of material accumulated during twelve years of radio work and public lectures in which non-Catholics were encouraged to express their difficulties in accepting Catholicism."

Vol 4 : 1,650 questions and answers on Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Paganism and Communism from the radio information session over the 13 years from 1941 to 1954.

Vol 5 : 839 questions and answers from the years 1962 to 1968 prompted in great part by the decisions of the Second Vatican Council.

While the fundamentals of Catholic doctrine have not changed, there has been change in aspects of the Church's life e.g. the Index was abolished, we can eat meat on Friday and, more importantly, we had Vatican II.

Reading the justification for a rule or practice now abolished, one can still appreciate the wisdom of the rule even though for some other reason the authorities have now chosen to abandoned it. For example, how many people understand the danger to their spiritual life in reading "atheistic" literature or pornography? Protection was the point of the Index. How aware are we now of the "occasions of sin"?

Another interesting aspect of these questions is that they form a record of sorts of what was important to thinking men in decades gone by. For example, browse the questions on

and you get a vivid sense of the "hot issues" of the day. The consistency of the Church's teaching, the faithfulness to the Gospel message through all controversies is consoling. It is a help to faith in our troubled times. "This too will pass".

It is interesting to browse some of today's issues in the Search function:

  • birth control
  • euthansia
  • women priests
  • sex before marriage
  • annulment
  • divorce
  • religious education
  • abortion
  • ecumenism
  • atheism
  • secularism
  • infallibility

Enjoy browsing.

Once you choose a volume (top navigation bar):

  • the book's index of topics appears in the left hand column
  • hover over a topic with your cursor to see the question numbers in the topic
  • To view the questions quickly (100 at a time), click a link below:

"The hardest thing to find in the world today is an argument. Because so few are thinking, naturally there are found but few to argue. Prejudice there is in abundance and sentiment too, for these things are born of enthusiasms without the pain of labour. Thinking, on the contrary, is a difficult task; it is the hardest work a man can do - that is perhaps why so few indulge in it."
- Mgsr Fulton Sheen in Preface to Vol 3 (1942)