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#11314 Why Does Jesus Tell His Followers to Buy a Sword in Luke 22? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 6 September 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Open Forum – Questions Covered: 1:00 – Fr. Mitch Pacwa says if we collect all the relics of the true cross, we would have about ⅓ of a cross. 06:53 – Psalm 37:4 and Mark 11:24. What would be a balanced perspective on understanding these verses? 12:37 – How would one explain the need for purification after death to a Protestant? 18:19 – How does being a Christian and living with depression and anxiety coexist with joyfulness? 31:32 – What happens to your body when you die? 34:05 – Can a pope change tradition? How do we distinguish small t and capital T tradition especially when considering capital punishment? 45:20 – What is the likelihood that the Orthodox will reunite with Rome in our lifetime? 47:08 – Why does Jesus tell his followers to buy a sword in Luke 22? …

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0:00.0

Well, welcome back to Catholic Cancer's Live.

0:17.9

I kill it here, your host, and Carlo Broussard is our guest, Carlo Apologist at Catholic

0:23.5

Cancer's speaker extraordinaire, and he's got a brand new book called The New Relativism

0:27.6

that many, many people are finding helpful because there's a certain way in which our current

0:32.9

moment is a very moralist moment where people tell you you're morally obliged to do all

0:37.8

these things, having to do with all kinds of communities and letters of the alphabet

0:43.4

and even voting and the environment.

0:46.6

All this moral obligation is constantly being laid on us and it can feel kind of heavy.

0:51.8

And where is it all coming from?

0:52.8

Well, Carlo calls it The New Relativism and you can find out why by checking out the

0:56.9

book.

0:57.9

Carlo, thanks for coming back for another hour.

0:59.9

Size great to be back for round two, brother, here we go, ding, ding, and here we go.

1:05.0

But I kind of left Yachtic hanging there at the break because I didn't, well, I didn't

1:11.8

leave enough time to get to his point, but he was saying that Father Mitch, okay, well,

1:16.8

let me just, for those who are just joining us.

1:18.8

And the first hour somebody asked about whether the true cross, you see the relics of the

1:22.9

true cross.

1:24.6

And are they actually relics of the true cross?

1:27.7

And Carlo said, I don't know and I said, I don't know.

1:30.5

And that's about as much as we were able to offer.

1:34.5

But Yachtic is called then from Texas, from Amarillo, Texas, listening on St. Valentine

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