#12104 How Do We Know If Catholic Doctrine Has Changed or Developed? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 12 March 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

What’s the difference between change and development in Catholic teaching? Jimmy Akin explains how the Church maintains continuity and answers more on First Confession, receiving Communion, and the first miracle of creation.

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Questions Covered:

03:08 – What are we supposed to confess at First Confession?
05:30 – What is the standard to know if Catholic Doctrine has changed versus developed?
14:51 – Why can’t I receive Communion unless I’m in a state of grace?
32:17 – Why is it okay for Catholics to only receive the bread versus both species?
37:12 – Could the Creation of Eve be considered the first miracle?
43:19 – Why do we cling to certain Biblical teachings and stray from others?

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0:32.5	My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the live show, filling in for Sykelet today.
0:37.6	It's great to be with you on the second hour.
0:39.8	You know, we're doing OCI questions and people from OCIA, but we're probably, we're going
0:44.8	to open it up to anybody who wants to call in.
0:47.8	So if you're not going through OCIA, you're more than welcome to call as well.
0:50.5	We're taking questions on doctrine, questions like salvation, Soliscriptura,
0:55.5	Solofi Day, salvation, questions in regards to doctrinal issues. So if you have questions on that,
1:03.0	you're more than welcome to give us a call. 8883187-884. That's Triple-831-Truth to get on with Dr. Carlo Broussard.
1:13.3	Carlo, you have, you got something cool going on at the end of this month that you're doing on
1:17.9	your own website. Can you tell me more about that? Yeah, sure. So I'm going to be hosting and
1:23.3	presenting a live online short course entitled Beyond the Bible, a Catholic response to
1:28.6	Sola Scripter. And so it's three consecutive Thursdays, about two hours' worth of me going
1:35.9	through the material live with interactions. So those who register for the course are able to
1:42.0	ask their questions and interact with me. It's sort of a semi-formal, semi-informal, just kind of interaction.
1:49.0	As we go through the material, you get detailed downloadable notes that are equivalent to pretty much a 20-Ansers
1:56.0	booklet published by Catholic Cancer Press at least with regard to the length of the amount of notes that you get.
2:04.4	And then you also have access, on-demand access to the videos after we capture the live recording to where you can go back to it and watch it at wheel.
2:13.6	And so people can register on my website, carlobroussar.com, that's K-A-R-L-Carlo,
2:19.2	carlobrusar.com, under the short course tab, and you'll see the more info and registration link there
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