#11957 Ask Me Anything - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 06:26 – Is belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception necessary for salvation? 14:03 – If saints are confirmed to be in heaven, is there any barrier to the Church canonizing non-Catholics who live good holy lives? 17:12 – Was John the Baptist born without original sin? 19:40 – If someone wants to join the Church it seems like they have to do so much unnecessary waiting to go through the RCIA process. Any thoughts on that? 24:21 – How is there room in heaven for us and the angels if God is infinite? 30:02 – Considering how the Orthodox don’t believe in the Immaculate Conception, does that mean they’re not saved? ??:?? – How do we reconcile Purgatory with the last judgment? It seems unfair for people who live till the last judgment and still have sins on their soul to be treated differently than those who died earlier and were purified. 42:25 – Is it hard for us to understand that we can go to hell for things like missing mass because we are not looking at it from God’s perspective? 47:40 – Do I have to believe something that a saint, like St. Thomas Aquinas, said? …

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live and happy Thanksgiving Day to you if you're here in the United States.
0:37.1	It is Thanksgiving, the day that
0:40.2	basically proves America's better than everywhere else because we take a whole day. It does. I mean,
0:44.8	I don't want to offend people around the world, but we have a day devoted to giving thanks to God.
0:49.7	And we make it all about ourselves, but still, it's officially, it's devoted to giving thanks to God.
0:55.3	Hey, before we get started, it's going to be a drop call's open forum with Dr. Carlo Bursarad today.
1:03.7	But I want to welcome anybody who is new to Cathagradio or to new to the station that you're listening to us on.
1:09.5	Because it's Thanksgiving Day, we know there are people who are traveling, heading to Grandma's house, or maybe are just in a
1:16.5	place where you're not usually usually are. You just have the day off, and you don't usually
1:19.2	have the day off. And so thank you for joining us. We hope to make it a fun, entertaining,
1:24.0	and interesting couple of hours for you. If you want to know about what we do,
1:28.0	Catholic Answers is, well, we do apologetics, which is basically explaining and defending the
1:33.8	Catholic faith. And you can find us at Catholic.com. Pretty easy to remember, Catholic.com. Find
1:39.8	all about our work there. Our guest is Dr. Carla Roussard. He's a philosopher and an apologist, a longtime apologist, author of a whole bunch of books,
1:50.5	including The Saints Pray for You.
1:53.8	That's right, his newest books about the Saints and the Catholic understanding of where the
1:58.3	saints are and what the Saints are up to.
2:00.1	The Saints Pray for you.
2:02.0	Dr. Carla Bursard, welcome. Hey, Saad. Thanks for welcoming me. It's great to be with you.
2:07.1	It is a day for giving thanks. You have a lot to be thankful for. I'm thankful. I am thankful
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