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Catholic Action Insight™ Episode

No Reason for Despair with Karl Keating

Dear Friend, 

If you sometimes wonder what is going on in the Church and how to respond to all the chaos and confusion, a few minutes listening to Karl Keating on our recent Catholic Action Insight™ episode should fill you with great hope for the future. Interviewing him was certainly inspirational for me! 

As most know, Mr. Keating is the founder of the Catholic Answers apostolate, which germinated in his soul in the late seventies when he felt called to respond to some anti-Catholic literature placed on the cars in the parking lot of his parish. I won’t give away the storyline for you, but it is one for the ages, and you’ll want to hear it directly from him in our short video.

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Given the explosive growth of Catholic Answers over the years, the story simply confirms Karl Keating’s message of hope for Catholics in modern times. If we were to ask the question, “Where do Catholics go from here?” Mr. Keating would answer like St. Junipero Serra who founded the missions of California: “Forward! Always forward!” It’s that attitude of indomitable hope that drives Karl Keating and all of us here at Catholic Action. 

In the interview, he backs up his message of hope with a deep understanding of Catholic history, which is what he calls a “very sobering” reality for all of us. Whenever we are tempted to complain or think we have it bad, we should read the history of the saints to know that our forebears often had it much worse than we do and continued in fidelity to the Truth and love for the Church that Christ founded.  

He cites the famous French diplomat and writer, Paul Claudel, who received a grace of deep conviction about the Truth of the Catholic faith as he stood by a pillar in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. (To this very day, a placard in the cathedral marks the spot of his conversion.) From that point on, Claudel used his influence and talent to promote those truths to the world. 

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was told by Jesus that she would not have consolation in her practice of the faith, and she humbly accepted His will. For fifty years she persevered and marched always forward in the work Christ gave her to do, and we all know the extraordinary impact her Missionaries of Charity have had on our modern world. 

Karl notes that these models of active faith apply to Catholics of every day and age, not just those who receive extraordinary graces. God tests every one of us to grow, and the tests are often difficult. But we are not people who despair at challenges or at the abysmal state of the Church or the world. We are in the company of the saints, and so we march forward and do what we can to increase the light amid the growing darkness. 

Yes, things are bad and, quite frankly, the Church is in terrible shape today. But there is absolutely no reason to despair—take it from Karl Keating, who knows a little bit about giving people hope.

Yours in Christ and Our Lady,



Thomas J. McKenna

Founder and President

Catholic Action For Faith And Family
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