Millions of Questions

This being so, people who have questions about the Catholic Faith have questions about practically everything. What does the Church make of marriage? What about capital punishment? Is there a Catholic doctrine about hypnosis? Or farm subsidies? What about other religions? What about the Crusades? What about evolution? Where do we get the Trinity from? Can you say God is one person who used to be the Father, then became the Son, and is now the Holy Spirit? How come Easter moves around on the calendar? Is astrology in the Bible? Why no women priests? What is the “preferential option for the poor”? What's the story on celibacy? Can the Pope sin? Why do Catholics make a big deal of Mary? Is there really a hell? Is there really a heaven?

People come to Catholic Exchange with a million questions. And with our feature Truth Tracts, they get answers based on the teaching of the Church and articulated in language anybody can understand.

Don't Have to Re-Invent the Wheel

Catholic Exchange Writer/Editor Mark Shea is in charge of researching and answering the questions on our Truth Tracts features. He says, “The nice thing about being Catholic is that you don't have to reinvent the wheel on a lot of questions. As an Evangelical, I felt a personal responsibility to come up with “Christian replies” to every question about everything under the sun. When I couldn't formulate an instant response to — say, stem cell research — based on Me and My Bible it was baffling. But a Catholic friend was frank and forthright: when somebody asked him what he believed about X, he simply responded, 'Dunno. I'll to go read the Catechism and see what it says I believe.”

Shea continues, “This is shocking to the modern mind, which believes in prophets (people with first-hand religious experience and illumination) but not in priests (the custodians of a Tradition). Still, the fact remains that it is better to draw on the considered reflections of a lot of wise heads than it is to trust the first thing to come out of the mouth of an idiot like me. So when somebody wants to know about some arcane point of Catholic theology, my first instinct is to look for magisterial sources or some other reliable info link. I often find that there is some website which has a magisterial document that has already considered the question in detail. Also, of course, there is a huge amount of thought available to us for free in the Catechism. Much of my job is getting people in touch with this. In addition, however, there is often the task of translating such source material into terms comprehensible in today's culture. That's the job of Truth Tracts.”

Large Database of Questions Answered

Truth Tracts does not and cannot promise an “answer” to every question. Our limited manpower makes this impossible. But Truth Tracts has amassed an impressive catalog of answers to questions on everything from soup to nuts and does its level best to find information on as many questions as humanly possible. If you've got a question on any and all things Catholic, check out Truth Tracts. If you can't find an answer there, drop us a line and we will do our best to find out the information you need.