Karl Keating


Karl Keating is an American Catholic apologist and author who founded and presided over Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization.
Keating's book Catholicism and Fundamentalism was based on a 1988 series that ran for 30 weeks in The Wanderer.

Catholic Answers

In August 1986, the first Catholic Answers Newsletter was published. In January 1990, Catholic Answers published the monthly magazine This Rock. For nine years, Keating served as the editor.
In 1988, Keating changed careers and went into apologetics full-time. He has been a columnist for The Wanderer, the National Catholic Register and the Canadian Catholic Review. He has also acted as expert on EWTN's Questions and Answers forum.
A 2004 complaint to the Internal Revenue Service by the pro-choice organization Catholics for a Free Choice led to an IRS investigation of Catholic Answers that Keating described as costly and onerous. As a result, he formed a new organization with a separate 501 tax status, called Catholic Answers Action, that continued publishing his Voter's Guide for Serious Catholics. This instructs readers not to vote for candidates who would vote for legalization of any of five alleged "non-negotiable" issues.

Books

  • Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"
  • What Catholics Really Believe
  • Nothing but the Truth: Essays in Apologetics
  • The Usual Suspects: Answering Anti-Catholic Fundamentalists
  • Controversies: High-Level Catholic Apologetics
  • Jeremiah's Lament
  • No Apology
  • Anti-Catholic Junk Food
  • The New Geocentrists
  • Apologetics the English Way
  • How to Fail at Hiking Mt. Whitney
  • How to Fail at Hiking Grand Canyon
  • The Bible Battle
  • High Desert Showdown
  • Tracking Down the True Church
  • Face Off with an Ex-Priest
  • Debating Catholicism
  • ''Booked for Life''