Catholic Apologetics: An Apology Or A Boastful Attitude?

Catholic apologetics is a defense of the Catholic faith. The word, apology, signifies a statement that takes responsibility for something and is intended to obtain forgiveness from the one offended. Catholic apologetics certainly accepts responsibility for holding a belief, but attaches to that acceptance no apology for holding that belief. Quite to the contrary, Catholic apologetics asserts reasonable justification for holding a belief and would expect assent rather than dissent, honor rather than blame, for knowing the reason why a belief is held. Rather than a list of excuses for holding a belief, apologetics tends to convince non-Catholics of the soundness and reasonable of these beliefs through philosophical and theological arguments.