Please Help Protect Our American Soldiers From Anti-Catholic Propaganda!

 

Catholic Troops are in Danger of Losing Their Faith While They’re Risking Their Lives . . .
and They Need Your Help!

 

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Dear Friend of Catholic Answers,

Imagine yourself in this situation . . .  

You’re a young American soldier, born and raised Catholic, and you’re deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan or some other hot spot in the world today.

You risk your life on a daily basis. You’re fighting an increasingly unpopular war. Death and despair are all around you—and there’s little you can do about it.

This is a time when you need your Catholic faith and the soul-sustaining grace of the sacraments the most.

Yet, at the same time that you’re in harm’s way, you’re also “under fire” from zealous anti-Catholics who want you to go AWOL from the Catholic faith.

At night in your barracks, they ply you with tracts and booklets that show how unbiblical the Catholic religion is. They recite their version of the history of the Church and try to convince you that Catholicism is essentially pagan or blasphemous—and guilty of outright idolatry.

Now, bear in mind, you’re young—and you weren’t well-schooled in the catechism and Catholic apologetics when you were growing up. So you listen to the seemingly plausible arguments of the anti-Catholics . . . you stare blankly at your MRE . . . and you wonder if there are any answers to these attacks on your faith.

Out of loyalty, you try your best to defend the beliefs, practices, and traditions that the Fundamentalists are targeting. But to no avail—because you’re not equipped to defend the faith against such attacks.

Then, before you know it, you start to doubt the Catholic faith. You start reading the tracts and books that your buddy in the foxhole gave you. You even begin attending Protestant Bible studies. And then their church services. You discover that they’re really nice people, and they truly love the Lord.

Before you know it, you’re renouncing your Catholic faith and saying, “I used to be Catholic, but then I studied the Bible, and now I’m Christian!”

This happens every day among our armed forces.

The anti-Catholic zealots “target” the poorly-catechized Catholic troops they’re stationed with—and “save” them for the Lord by getting them to abandon Catholicism.

Yes, they mean well. They think they’re doing the right thing. But you and I know better.

The fact remains that Catholic soldiers—all over the globe—are on the defense against the slick, well-rehearsed, and well-organized propaganda machine of Protestant Fundamentalism.

But not anymore—not if I can help it.

You see, a high proportion (over 25%) of our troops are Catholics. Most are young and not well educated in the faith, so they are easy targets for the propaganda of anti-Catholic zealots.

Whether on a ship, on base, or in a foxhole, these troops are a captive audience for the Fundamentalists, who are encouraged by their own chaplains to evangelize Catholics and recruit them for Protestant Bible studies. Protestant chaplains have even been known to hand out Jack Chick publications—the worst anti-Catholic propaganda of all.

Well, a few years ago, we decided to do something about this problem.

We had been contacted by hundreds of Catholic chaplains and personnel from all branches of the military. They told us numerous stories of how bad anti-Catholic proselytizing is in the U.S. military.

Knowing that our troops simply need the basic truths of the Catholic faith, we felt that we should send FREE copies of our most powerful defensive weapon—Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth to Catholic chaplains as well as to any servicemen who contacted us for help.

We’ve sent tens of thousands of copies of Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth (and our other material) to troops all over the world.

Unfortunately, it’s not cheap to do that.

Today I ask your help so we can continue sending Pillar and our other material to our troops—because the need is greater than ever.

With more and more troops deployed in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, the demand for solid Catholic apologetics material has increased sharply.

So have our expenses. Shipping costs alone have skyrocketed—and so has the cost of printing the material that we send them (Pillar, tracts, Pure Love—you name it).

But to keep going, we need extra help from loyal supporters like you.

That’s why I’m hoping you’ll commit to an automatic monthly donation of $15 . . .      $25 . . . or perhaps $35 or more so that we can continue to ship our material to Catholic men and women in uniform—and help them defend their Catholic faith against attacks from the anti-Catholics.

Your monthly support of this project could be as little as 50 cents or a dollar a day. But it will be priceless to the troops who receive our material and then remain in the Catholic faith.

Monthly donations are vital to the ongoing success of this project—and to the “spiritual sustenance” of our Catholic troops. I wish I had space to share with you all the thank-you letters we receive from the troops themselves—as well as from Catholic chaplains who are seeking good material.

Here’s how one Catholic chaplain summed it up:

“When the American populace supports its troops who are putting their lives on the line, it speaks volumes.”

So true.

Along with an outpouring of prayer, this is probably the best thing you can do to support our Catholic troops right now.

They’re putting their lives at risk. They shouldn’t have to put their faith at risk, too.

            May your donation—and your prayers—help bring them home safely and keep them in the Church.

                                                          Sincerely in Christ,

                                                         
                                                          Karl Keating

 

P.S.      I can’t emphasize it enough: Catholics in the military are in danger.

That’s why we must continue to help them—every month—by shipping Pillar of Fire, Pillar of Truth (and all our other Catholic apologetics material) to them for free.

Your monthly donations will help make that happen. Thank you, and God bless.