The word apologetics come from the Greek meaning “to explain and defend.” Catholic Apologetics is striving to understand, explain, and defend our Catholic faith.
It's never to late too change. It's never too late to love and choose life. Forty years ago, as a young, pregnant woman, Norma McCorvey played a key role in the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Now McCorvey, the ‘Roe’ in the...
Please take the title's warning seriously. This video has graphic scenes that portray both the physical procedure and the emotional stress of a young woman in an abortion. However, we see the depravity only when we compare it with the marvelous miracle of every human...
This beautiful video comes from Real Alternatives, a non-profit group that works to support and provide alternatives to abortion for pregnant women to choose life for their babies. The video, a combination of animations and ultrasound images, shows the development of...
We're taking advantage of the start of this new year to share a very fitting video. It is of a TED Talk (TED is a not for profit which is dedicated to “Ideas worth spreading”) which takes place in San Francisco. The theme is a project called “Happiness Revealed”. ...
"This is our first task: caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how as a society we will be judged. And by that measure, can we truly say as a nation that we are meeting our obligations? Can we...
This six-minute video that comes as part of the Sacraments 101 Series by Busted Halo excellently presents a basic catechesis on the Sacrament of Baptism. During my transitional diaconate, I had the wonderful opportunity to serve the Filipino Community in Rome at Santa...
Today's video is another excellent production done by Spirit Juice Studios together with Fr. Pontifex. They gave the video the title of "Idol Worship" because many times that is exactly what Catholics are accused of without really knowing what we believe. This video...
This video expresses an all too overlooked truth, that just because someone claims to be Catholic it does not mean that they actually are one. A girl is taken into a court room, convicted of being Catholic. After being questioned and insisting that she is Catholic,...
It has been extremely difficult to find videos which cover contraception and family planning from a Catholic perspective. However, it seems that we at Catholic-Link are not the only people to have noticed the lack of resources in this area, and this short video was...
How can you follow a Church that still believes that sex is a sin? This is the question one friend asks of another and thus begins a fantastic overview of John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. Theology of the Body (TOB) is much more than just a theology of sex in the...
The video invites us to take a deeper look at the authenticity of our faith. Ryan is living a life of severe inconsistency. He tells us a testimony about his life as a “Christian”. Yet we see that his relationship with God is almost non-existent. Nothing in his heart...
Catholic-link.com – What if you worked your whole life and, on the day of your death, you saw for the first time that you weren’t doing what you were supposed to? That you worked for someone else, for a false idea of who you are? The video, narrated by Alan Watts...
Catholic-link.com – “You won't find faith or hope down a telescope. You won't find heart and soul in the stars. You can break everything, down to chemicals, but you can't explain a love like ours.” We all need to “find some meaning in the things that we believe.” This...
Nicholas Petron's grandfather, Rocco Galasso, moved to New York City from Italy with the hopes of making a better life. For eighteen years, Rocco served as owner and superintendent of an apartment building where much of his family resided--until the day they were...
The video is produced by the National Organization for Marriage (USA) and takes on the subject of homosexuality from a social and political perspective. It seeks to explain the perniciousness of the pseudo institution, homosexual marriage, as it relates to a healthy...
Today’s video responds in a refreshing and appealing way to some of the most common and constant accusations against the faith and the Church in our day: the false equivalence between faith and irrationality, the false dichotomy between faith and science, the mistaken...
“What is invisible? There’s more of it than you think actually. Everything, I would say, everything that matters, except everything… and matter. We can see matter but we can’t see what’s the matter…” John Lloyd, the speaker behind this genial introduction to...
Besides the cultural interest, the video could provide you with an opportunity to explain the importance of locating ourselves within history. Ever since God became man and, in doing so, inserted himself in a particular way in our time, history has become an even more...
"Doll Face" is a video published by Global Short Film Network and made by Andy Huang. It proposes a critique about how we understand our relationship with the media and the paradigms that they present. In the first place, it's important to recognize that the...
Security cameras just catch the wrongdoers, right? This short advertisement by Coca-Cola reminds us that good thing are recorded too. Daily we are bombed with messages of crisis, war, theft, hate, murder, etc... And while they certainly exist, we aren't being told the...
The video is the result of a study done by BOX1824, a Brazilian research company specializing in behavioral sciences and consumer trends. It spells out the basics on the last two generations, Baby Boomers and Generation X,...
In today's world, the presence of planners, calendars, schedules, and agendas is almost overwhelming. What's even more stifling is how many times our plans don't work out. The other day I had marked down an event about 2 weeks out. I set around 6 reminders to go off...
This short video shows a brief conversation between two unborn babies, one a skeptic and one a believer. Are you one of those strange people that believe in the mother? The dialogue is simple enough and presents the question of the existence of a life after death in a...
Don't let its simplicity distract from the density of the question at the end. How one responds to the question, "that's it?" lays down the foundations for life. Thinking about death puts things into perspective. It's the most accurate balance for determining the...
Today's video makes a great link between what we find in Scripture and our day to day lives. Like all things, sports and other examples that we find in the video are good things in themselves. There is nothing wrong with being a sports fan. Still, the video invites...