The Objection — Annual

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The Objection

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Somebody asks you why Catholics call priests “Father” when Jesus said not to call any man on earth your father. Or why there are seven books in your Bible that are not in theirs. Or how bread can be a body. You know there is an answer. You cannot produce it standing in a kitchen with a paper plate in your hand.

The Objection takes one of those questions every Tuesday and answers it properly. Not a comeback. An answer, worked from the biblical text in the language it was written in, with the Church Fathers quoted at length and the Catechism cited by paragraph, and summarized into two or three sentences that you can actually repeat.

What is always free

Every episode, in full, permanently. On the written page: the objection stated the way the person raising it would state it, what is true in it, and the short answer. If you never pay me anything, you still leave with the answer. That is not a marketing decision. Somebody who arrives here with a real question should get a real answer.

What membership opens

The work underneath.

  • The Greek or the Hebrew behind the verse being argued about, and the word carrying the weight
  • The Church Fathers quoted in full rather than paraphrased, with the work and the section
  • St. Thomas Aquinas, where he sharpens the point
  • Every footnote, checkable
  • The archive, which grows by one answer every Tuesday

What this is honestly worth right now

At launch, the archive is small. Four episodes are free, and one is behind the wall. What you are paying for in September is the weekly cadence and the promise that it keeps arriving, not a reference library that does not exist yet. By Christmas there will be twenty answers, and at that point the archive is the whole argument. Your membership now helps us complete this work.

The rule this is written under

Never win. The objection gets stated in its strongest form, the way somebody who believes it would state it, with their best evidence. If a thoughtful Protestant would not recognize his own argument in the opening paragraph, the objection gets rewritten. Nothing here is “destroyed” or “demolished”; there is no sarcasm, and no living person is ever named. The point is to answer the argument rather than to beat somebody.

Who writes it

Deacon Dan DeLuca, a permanent deacon ordained for the Archdiocese of Omaha in 2023, completing a Master’s degree in theology. You can check every claim against its source. That is the whole promise.

The trial

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There is more of this on Thursday

The Catholic Citizen takes one principle of the Church's social teaching and works it through something in that week's news — with the words to use when it comes up. A new issue every Thursday, every claim cited by paragraph number. Seven days free, then $4.99 a month.

Deacon Dan DeLuca in a green dalmatic

About The Author

Deacon Dan DeLuca is a permanent deacon ordained for the Archdiocese of Omaha in 2023. He is completing a Master's degree in theology and preparing to begin doctoral studies; his areas of study are Scripture, liturgy, and ecclesiology. Everything published here is cited so you can check every claim.

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