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Catholic Answers, based in El Cajon, California, is the largest lay-run apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization in the United States. It publishes ''Catholic Answers Magazine'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Catholic Answers Magazine )〕 a bimonthly magazine focusing on Catholic evangelization and apologetics, as well as the website Catholic.com. It also produces ''Catholic Answers Live,''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Radio )〕 a radio show answering callers' questions on a variety of topics related to the Catholic Church. Catholic Answers Live is syndicated on the EWTN radio network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Catholic Radio- EWTN Catholic Radio Network )〕 Catholic Answers operates with the permission of the Diocese of San Diego. It is listed in the current edition of ''The Official Catholic Directory'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Apologetics - Official Catholic Directory )〕 the authoritative listing of U.S. Catholic organizations, priests, and bishops. ==History== Catholic Answers was founded in 1979 by Karl Keating in response to a fundamentalist Protestant church in San Diego that was distributing anti-Catholic propaganda in the form of tracts placed on the cars of Catholics attending Mass. Its mission statement explains its purpose: He first started by writing a modest tract titled "Catholic Answers" to counter the arguments he saw in the anti-Catholic tract. He distributed it on the windshields of the cars in the fundamentalist Protestant church's parking lot. Due to the feedback he received from that tract, he published 24 more tracts. In 1988 he quit his law practice and turned Catholic Answers into a full-time apostolate, with an office and full-time staff. Catholic Answers had $5.2 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending in June 2012, according to the watchdog organization Charity Navigator,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charity Navigator Rating - Catholic Answers )〕 which assigned Catholic Answers 0 stars out of a possible 4 due to low marks for accountability and transparency. The Catholic.com website receives approximately 471,000 visitors per month in an October 2012 estimate.〔http://www.usccb.org/about/communications/upload/Catholic_New_Media_Use_in_United_States_2012.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catholic Answers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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