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#11025 Overcoming Obstacles to Catholicism - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 13:43 – I’m divorced, remarried, then widowed and now I’m getting remarried. If we get married, I know my husband will be excommunicated if we marry. Do you have any advice? 21:31 – I fear inviting young women to Church and not knowing if they’ve had an abortion. Would they be able to come into the Church if they had? 24:57 – When did Jesus rise again? Does that mean it was the first or second time that he rose? 29:20 – I want to join the Roman Catholic Church but I’m divorced. I don’t ever plan on being remarried. Do I have to get my marriage annulled? Or can I skip that? 32:30 – I’m Anglican. I struggle with the honor that we are supposed to give to Mary and the saints. 45:13 – How do I discuss Pope Francis with my Evangelical friends who see him as vague and almost wanting to change Church teaching? …

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Katha Gantz's Live. I am Sy Kelly at your host and we got a great

0:21.7

show for you. Carlos is going to be with us both hours and we're talking about overcoming

0:24.8

obstacles to Catholicism. He wrote a book about that as a matter of fact and if you have

0:30.0

an obstacle to a full embrace of the Catholic faith then if you'd like to call and talk

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about it, whatever it might be, maybe it's a Marion doctrine, maybe it just comes down

0:40.6

to faith in Jesus or belief in God. Whatever your obstacle is, 888-318-7884 is the number

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to call, 888-318-7884. If you've got an obstacle and you're a Catholic, you can also

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call through something that you're struggling with, 888-318-7884. Carlo, of course, apologist

0:59.5

here at Katha Gantz was a wonderful speaker and author of quite a few books, including

1:06.5

Prepare the Way, Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church and that's

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what we're going to do. Try to help you overcome obstacles today, 888-318-7884. Hi, Carlo,

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thanks for being here.

1:17.1

So I killed it. It's great to be here with you, my friend and I was away for a couple

1:21.5

days. Oh, you were?

1:22.5

Yeah, I saw some parts of California with my wife that I had not seen before. Oh, cool.

1:26.5

Yeah, do you know that this state has very beautiful stuff in it? It was quite a, I've

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always heard people say, oh, you should go to the central coast, it's so beautiful. And

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I have to admit, I was a little Southern California air again, like, man, it's beautiful

1:39.7

where I live. And then I went there and I was like, well, yeah, I've got nothing like

1:43.2

this. Like, it's beautiful. It's lovely, so. I just wish I had the money to go and

1:48.2

see those things. Yeah. Well, thank you for making me feel guilty about getting away

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for a couple of years.

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