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I am an apologist and speaker with Catholic Answers, one of the largest lay-run apostolates of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in North America.
This is my personal blog. It’s focus is Catholic thought engaging the culture.
I write on apologetics, sexuality, and current issues through the lens of the Church.
My goal is to create insightful and relevant content that will support, educate and challenge you to engage the culture as an intelligent Christian.
I typically post three to four times a week. To make sure you don’t miss my newest posts, you can subscribe to via email by entering your email under Follow My Blog over on the right there.
My Top Posts
If you are new to my site, you might want to start with my most popular posts. Here are my top posts from each category:
Apologetics
Has Science done away with God?
Sexuality
Catholic, Gay and Feeling Fine
My Biography
After I experienced a profound conversion from agnosticism to Catholicism at World Youth Day in Rome in 2000, I have committed myself to inviting others to know Jesus Christ and the Church he founded. As a full-time apologist with Catholic Answers, I speak internationally to tens of thousands of teens and young adults each year about chastity. I also speaks to parish audiences on a wide variety of faith topics.
I have been married to my wife, Cameron for 6 years. We have one son, Liam and two daughters, Avila and Chiara. We live in Southern California.
In my free time, I enjoy surfing, reading, going out on date nights with my beautiful wife and wrestling my kids on the bed (I’m still undefeated).
My Contact Information
You can contact me via email, befriend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter
Speaking Engagements
To book me to speak call 619-387-7200 or email my speaking coordinators: seminars@catholic.com. My Schedule does tend to fill up fast, so try to book well in advance.
Listen to Matt’s Chastity talk - The Love That Satisfies
Thank you so much for posting Steve Gershom’s article. As a Catholic with many homosexual friends and older atheist and agnostic siblings (sole believers in humanity thus homosexuality), it is refreshing to hear from someone on both sides of the fence. I have high respect for Mr. Gershom and am inclined to read many of your blogs to thus deepen my belief and rebuild my faith. Thank you, Mr. Fradd.
Matt,
Hello from a fellow Aussie! I love your blog!!
I noticed you’ve spelled Chiara ‘Chriara’ in your biography and thought you might want to change it if it is wrong. I’m studying to be a Catholic primary school teacher…spelling
All the best and with my prayers, Genevieve
Thank you! Changed.
thanks
[...] few days ago I was listening to a conversation with Matt Fradd on Catholic Answers Live, titled “The False Intimacy of Porn” — which even from [...]
hey, thanks for this site. i’m a questioning non-catholic and it answers a lot of questions.
You’re so very welcome, Angelica. Thank you for your kind words, and keep pursuing the truth courageously!
I saw you at the Edmonton Men’s Conference and loved your talk. I thought you might be interested in what Iceland has done and what they are trying to do around the subject of pornography. They already have a law forbidding the printing and distribution of pornography and now they are looking to ban Internet pornography. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/iceland/9866949/Iceland-considers-pornography-ban.html
Hi Matt–I wanted to mention my blog as well to you, not sure if you have ever checked it out or not but in September 2008 my story appeared in what was then “This Rock” magazine from Catholic Answers, due in large part to a number of contacts to Tim Staples, who I am sure you know well. Tim is a true gem indeed.
Like Steve Gershom, I come from an SSA/LGBT background, however I tend to shy away from using the term “gay” due to the misunderstandings it can indeed cause. However I support his efforts as well and realize that actively LGBT persons might gravitate to his site quicker than mine, so I certainly cannot fault him too badly on that choice of word usage. In any case I write on many topics but have a number of them sharing my own journey and subsequent return to Rome in 2005 after 35 years away–some as a married Assemblies of God minister and then ironically as a strong LGBT activist. So I have been the gamut of lifestyles so to speak.
But the only one that gives me lasting peace is Christ, and Him through the Church He gave to us. Just wanted you to know about it in case you had never checked it out.
PS–on my home page is a more updated version of my story, but based largely on the one I wrote for “This Rock” years ago. And I do have standing permission to use it via Sophia Sproule from Catholic Answers (via email) just so you are aware–plus it is no longer on your revamped website at any rate as they condensed the older copies of “This Rock” which they preserved–they even eliminated Tim’s article from that issue too so I do not feel too badly about it hehe.
I just wanted you and your readers to know about it and about me too! God bless you in your wonderful ventures.
hey matt,i heard to your talks in ACYC and totally loved it !
I’ve a lot of muslims friends asking me, why do you believe in jesus when he just the prophet and god is someone else. why do you drink alchol and eat pork when it is said in bible to not to do so ?
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why does mary wear a scarf in the pictures we see ? and Why when the images of Jesus are made he always has a beard never is he made clean shaven
could you please answer to these questions of mine.
Dear Mr. Fradd,
I think I get a little discouraged by some of you Apologists on Catholic Answers. How can we mere theologically, biblically, unstudied wanna-be defenders of the faith provide lucid answers to sometimes complex questions thrown our way by nay-sayers? You make it look so easy. For all I might know, I know I can’t quote scripture, exactly, other than to say, “You know, like that passage somewhere where it says something along the lines of…” I suppose the only thing to do is pray to the Holy Spirit for guidance and hope our flailing in the dark (when we try to defend our faith) is more effective than we think. I suppose God can use us precisely in our weaknesses. God’s way are inscrutable (or something like that
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Thanks for the job you do.
nathalie
Nathalie, I sympathize with your frustration; believe me! Working at Catholic Answers, I am surrounded by people much smarter than I; much more able at quoting Scripture that I; much better at reading New Testament Greek that I . . . It can be frustrating, because we want to know everything right now!
The trick is to stay close to our Lord.
Now I know that sounds obvious, but reflect on that. It’s much more gratifying to the ego to be told we are intelligent than to be holy. Take up your rosary! Spend at least one hour before the Blessed Sacrament every week, get a spiritual director.
Next step. Study! Tere are a plethora of resources out there, but I reccomend you get my colleagues 2 CD set, Getting Started in Apologetics. You can download the mp3 here: http://shop.catholic.com/mp3-getting-started-in-apologetics-the-least-you-need-to-know-to-explain-the-catholic-faith.html
I hope that helps.