#12051 The Whys of Catholic Belief - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 07:28 – Why does the Church believe babies can go to hell? 20:05 – Does a priest have to wear a stole when he blesses items like holy water? 23:44 – Why is it that protestants no longer have genuine consecration of the eucharist if Martin Luther was a priest and was able to consecrate? 29:45 – What is the difference between meat and fish, especially in the context of meatless Fridays? 34:15 – Why do Catholics use Aristotelian logic especially when not a lot of others do? 45:35 – How can I best explain the infallibility of the Papacy? 51:44 – Why do Catholics pray to saints and Mary when Jesus said only pray to God? …

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0:40.1	Hour two is going to be Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press, joining us for a Ask Me Anything Hour.
0:46.4	This hour, we are doing a wise-the-wise of Catholic belief, W-H-W-W-W-W-E-W-E-Live of Catholic belief.
0:53.3	Anything you want to know about why Catholics believe
0:55.5	or practice, anything you may have heard of. Call the number 8883187-884. That's triple-8-387-884 to get
1:05.1	your question on the air. You may have noticed by now, I am not Cy Kellett. I am Thomas
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1:16.6	bit under the weather, so he said, Cy, take your time, rest up, because the next three days we
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1:28.1	important days. But, you know, this is an important day, too. So I'm going to do my best to fill in.
1:32.4	Like I said, the number is 888-3-18-7-884 to get your answers to any questions you have about
1:38.3	the whys of Catholic belief. Why do Catholics go to Mass? Why do Catholics pray to saints? Why do Catholics believe that
1:45.9	the Eucharist is really the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ? Why do Catholics
1:50.3	have so many pictures of saints in their house? Anything you may have heard, 888-3187-884 to have your
1:56.4	question answered by our very special guest this hour, author, speakerologist, Extraordinaire, and most recently, PhD, Dr. Carlo
2:05.8	Broussard. Welcome back to the show, Carlo.
2:08.9	Thomas, great to be on with you, brother. And it's okay to say that this hour is important, but not as important as the next three days.
2:18.3	I'm glad you think so too, Carla, because I almost walked into that one.
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