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#11924 The Why’s of Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard

Catholic Answers Live

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 07:26 – I’m new to Catholicism. What next steps can I take to learn more? 13:49 – What reliable methods do Catholics have to detect the supernatural? 22:16 – I’m Protestant. Why does RCIA/OCIA take so long? 30:03 – Why did they get rid of the communion rail? 33:39 – Why should a non-denominational Christian become Catholic? 38:22 – Are there levels of Purgatory? 47:20 – What are the 3 most common misconceptions that keep Protestants away from Catholicism? …

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Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to the second hour of Catholic Answers Live.

0:33.6

I am Cy Kelly, your host.

0:35.0

Thanks so much for being here with us.

0:37.0

Nothing much going on in the United States today. So there's probably just, we've got a huge audience today because it's really a boring day around here. Nothing to watch on TV, nothing to listen to on the radio. So they're probably here with us, I'm guessing.

0:49.8

Anyways, even if there is plenty of other stuff, is it, can it meet getting to call Dr. Carlo Roussard

0:56.2

and ask him why Catholics believe stuff? Because that's what we're doing this hour.

0:59.8

Dr. Carlo Roussard, of course, Apologist here at Catholic Answers, author of many fine books,

1:03.8

including the brand new, The Saints Pray for You, a book that I'd find. I just love saying the title

1:09.4

because it encourages me. But Carlo gets into

1:12.4

the Catholic teaching on the saints, on the communion of saints, on the fact that the saints pray for you.

1:18.0

And he's done a lot of other things, lots of other books. But today we're letting folks just call up and ask him, why? Why do you Catholics believe this? Why do you Catholics believe

1:28.1

that? Or why do we Catholics believe this or that? So you can be Catholic or not Catholic

1:33.2

and call and ask why we believe the things that we believe. Sometimes those are the far more

1:39.6

interesting questions than what we believe, or even trying to maybe find the roots of the

1:49.7

controversies between Catholics and Protestants.

1:53.6

You know, I like all those things, but why?

1:55.9

Just explain to me.

1:57.1

Why do you have these particular moral teachings or these theological teachings

2:02.8

that you have as Catholics? It's always, to my mind, makes for fun conversations. So if you're

2:08.0

not Catholic and you're like, I don't know, do they want me to call? The answer is yes, we love

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