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#12043 Why Don’t You Think Catholicism Makes Sense? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered:  05:53 – Catholic, married Methodist. He has a divorce; they have a civil marriage. I’m told I need to get an annulment. Why is this? 12:20 – I’m not Catholic; why does the Catholic church believe/profess the doctrine of Transubstantiation? 20:11 – I come across a lot of Protestants who have trouble with perpetual virginity of Mary. Who is James (“brother of Jesus”) in Gal 1:19; is he one of the 12 apostles? 29:40 – Is the celebration of the Eucharist/the Real Presence greater than the miracle of the Last Supper? 33:58 – It doesn’t make sense to me that John the Baptist is described as “the spirit of Elijah’, whereas the prophecy makes it seem as if Elijah was to come back? 41:19 – I’m Catholic, but I’m interested in Orthodoxy. Some of their claims seem to have weight. How can the Church change its position on topics? 47:37 – Where do we get the idea/doctrine of indulgences? …

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I was thinking that I, you know,

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it's a nice thing is when you check the schedule in the morning and it's two hours with

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Carlo in the afternoon. Nothing to worry about. Everything's going to be just fine. Dr. Carlo

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Bussard, our guest, he's an apologist here at Catholic Ans was a wonderful speaker and philosopher,

0:52.7

doctor of philosophy as a matter of fact, and a podcaster.

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And you can talk to them if you'd like what we're going to talk about today.

1:00.4

Why don't you think Catholicism makes sense?

1:02.5

Now, that could be that you're Catholic or not Catholic, either one, or I guess I should have

1:08.7

put the emphasis opposite on that, the way I said that.

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But why don't you think Catholicism makes sense?

1:13.7

Maybe there's a particular doctrine of the Catholic faith that just doesn't make sense to you.

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Why do Catholics believe that?

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Why would they have that as part of their faith?

1:21.4

Maybe there's a belief that you're having a hard time assenting to.

1:24.4

You yourself are like, I don't know if I can assent to that. What is it about

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Catholicism that you don't think makes sense, whether you're Catholic or not, 8883-1-8-7-884?

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Dr. Carla Bussard, thank you so much for being here, making my life easy. Hey, sigh, very kind

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