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Karl Keating

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Karl Keating (b. 1950), a prominent Catholic apologist and author, is the founder and president of Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.

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.

Leaving Mass one Sunday, he found anti-Catholic tracts 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 anti-Catholic tract. That was the start of what has become the country’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization organization.

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Books by Karl Keating

Average rating: 4.10 · 542 ratings · 46 reviews · 12 distinct works

	Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians" 4.11 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions	My rating:
	What Catholics Really Believe--Setting the Record Straight: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions About the Catholic Faith 3.86 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Nothing But the Truth: Essays in Apologetics 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1999	My rating:
	Controversies: High Level Catholic Apologetics - Newman, Belloc, Knox, Lunn, Thurston 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	What Catholics Really Believe: 52 Answers to Common Misconceptions about the Catholic Faith 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Theology for Beginners by Frank J. Sheed, Karl Keating (Foreword) 4.25 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Belief of Catholics by Ronald A. Knox, Karl Keating (Foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1927	My rating:
	Beginning Apologetics 7: How to Read the Bible--A Catholic Introduction to Interpreting and Defending Sacred Scripture by Frank Chacon, Jim Burnham, Karl Keating (Foreword) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003	My rating: