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#11752 Ask Me Anything - Karlo Broussard

Catholic Answers Live

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 03:30 – Why can only a priest consecrate the Eucharist if anyone can baptize with the right intention? 06:38 – How much of saintly intercession would apply to old testament figures? 13:41 – Is there a connection between Jesus entering into hades to retrieve the souls and the Catholic understanding of Purgatory? 17:13 – Regarding Isaiah 53:4, the story of a suffering servant. It says that the servant smitten is by God. How do we as Catholics understand this? 22:19 – Is there some way to determine if someone is in a state of grace? 30:01 – Was Judas ever given the grace to be saved or was he doomed to fail? 35:12 – I just became Catholic. My biggest issue was infant baptism. What am I supposed to say to my children if they grow up and question me why i didn’t give them a choice? 37:24 – Does God love some more than others? 41:43 – The Eucharist liturgy doesn’t make sense, especially transubstantiation. 45:34 – The Church claims infallibility but why should we believe the rest of the teachings that aren’t declared infallibly? …

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0:00.0

I'm going to Welcome back to Cathay Gantzers Live.

0:18.0

Thanks so much for being here with us.

0:20.0

I almost want to say on this holiday weekend, but I guess the holiday weekend's over, but some people are probably still holiday

0:25.2

weekending it after the big 4th of July weekend. Thanks for spending the time with us. We very much like spending the time with you and getting to talk about Jesus and the church and all that goes along with that including the moral life and all that and sometimes we just open up the phones and say ask whatever you want and that's called and ask me anything and sometimes people

0:44.0

don't stay on the line with us when we do that and so we gather those up and then we

0:48.0

do a drop calls ask me anything and Dr. Carla Broussard here to do that with us

0:52.3

this hour.

0:53.8

So when I give out the phone number, don't call.

0:55.8

That just means I'm making a mistake.

0:57.9

You can make fun of me on Facebook,

0:59.9

as I'm sure Michael will when I do that.

1:02.2

But it'll just be a mistake because we've got all the questions right here in front of us.

1:06.8

Carlo, of course, apologist here at Kathy Gantzler's author of a whole lot of great books and the proprietor of a podcast and now a doctor of philosophy.

1:19.2

You can find all those books over at shop.Catholic.com.

1:22.2

The most... I get a little nervous saying the most recent

1:26.2

one is the relativism book but that's right though you there's another one coming

1:31.0

out as of now that is right.

1:34.0

But we are indeed in the editorial process of my forthcoming book,

1:39.0

which will deal with a defense of the invocation and veneration of the Saints.

1:44.4

We don't have a title yet for the book,

1:46.4

but we're hoping that that will be released in the fall.

1:50.5

So Drew and I are working on that right now and going through the editorial process.

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