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#11991 Why Don’t You Think Catholicism Makes Sense? - Karlo Broussard

Catholic Answers Live

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions covered: 04:24 -Why does Catholic Answers urge Catholics to “invoke” the saints rather than “pray to” them? 13:23 – What does it mean for the church to be the Body of Christ? 18:14 – My Protestant friends don’t seem to understand that the early Church taught the existence of Purgatory. 22:25 – Can you explain the nuances in the relationship between scripture and tradition? 29:00 – How come there isn’t any evangelization within the flock itself? Catholicism seems so divided. 36:23 – The Catholic Church seems to guilt trip its flock. 43:53 – Catholicism seems to be based off a religious leader whose legitimacy of claim is questionable. …

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going now. It's all getting started. I feel in the Christmas spirit. I hope you feel in the

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Christmas spirit. We've got a great show for you today. Dr. Carla Bussard is our guest, and we're

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asking you a question. Why don't you think Catholicism makes sense? These are often wonderful, fun, exciting,

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interesting conversations that we have with people who don't think, now, you could be Catholic

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and call, right? Like, you could become, you could be a Catholic who's like, you know what,

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it doesn't make sense to me that, and pick something, the Immaculate Conception doesn't make

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sense to me, or purgatory, it doesn't make sense to me. Or you could be,

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certainly, I'm sure there are non-Catholics who look at the Catholic Church, the Catholic faith,

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and go, all right, it doesn't make sense to me that you believe in God given X, or that you believe

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that God is love, given Y, or whatever. So if you've got a reason to say the Catholic Church doesn't make sense,

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Catholicism doesn't make sense. If you want to tell us why, get on the phone and we'd love to

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have that conversation with you. 888-3187-884, triple-8-387-884. You should know we really do

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enjoy these conversations. So you're not going to, um,

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don't be like, oh, I don't want to hold the phones up for somebody else. I'm,

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no, we want to talk with you about why you don't think Catholicism makes sense.

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888-3187-884. Dr. Carlo Broussard is a podcaster. I'm going to say that first because I always forget to say it.

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He's a podcaster. Sunday Catholic Word is his podcast. Comes out each Thursday. He's the author,

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his latest book, very popular book for very good reason. It's called The Saints Pray for You.

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Maybe that doesn't make sense to you. You want to talk about the intercession of the Saints. Well, the Saints Pray for You, is the latest book from Dr. Carla Bursart,

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