#11914 How to Talk to Protestants About Saints and Purgatory - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 04:13 – Can you share your interpretation of Matthew 5 as it relates to purgatory? 07:38 – If God is all good and loving, it seems unjust to send an unbaptized baby to Hell? 15:14 – How do I share with my mother that the Saints are praying for her, she just needs to ask? 21:41 – Are canonizations infallible? What confidence can I have in this process? 29:40 – Where did we get the idea that Saints can pray for us but not themselves? 33:39 – What is Purgatory? Can we know if we are going to purgatory? 41:31 – Is the suffering in Purgatory close to the level of Hell? Can the souls in purgatory talk to us? 49:10 – Can you explain the Saint prayer to release 1000 souls in purgatory? 52:05 – Is purgatory different from Paradise? How does this impact the thief on the cross? …

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0:53.5	time I read that but also it's a wonderful truth of our faith the communion of the
0:57.6	Saints the fact that the Saints pray for us and it is a fact it's not a speculation it's not a guess it's not a
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1:19.1	us who the saints are we wanted how do you explain that to others, particularly to Protestant brothers and
1:25.1	sisters for whom the Saints and purgatory and many of the things that we as Catholics know to be true about the afterlife,
1:34.0	they have been, are often difficult to discuss or take some
1:40.0	skill to discuss with Protestant brothers and sisters to help them see.
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