#12186 What If I Was Poorly Catechized? Invincible Ignorance and Responsibility - David Anders

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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What happens if someone grows up Catholic but was never properly taught the faith? In this episode, we explore the Church’s teaching on invincible ignorance, personal responsibility, and how culpability is assessed when someone lacks formation. Does ignorance excuse sin? What if that ignorance is the result of others’ failure? Karlo Broussard breaks it all down.

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Questions Covered:

05:51 – I got a tattoo at 16 of the number 666. I got it covered up and have confessed. Are there any implications for still having it on my body?
09:46 – When you were protestant, how did you handle church shopping with Jesus saying he is the way, the truth and the life?
19:25 – What do the 153 fish mean when Jesus met with his apostles after the resurrection?
22:55 – How can the Trinity have one divine mind of the persons are each other?
29:32 – If a person receives the anointing of the sick before they die are they absolved of all of their sins?
32:17 – What is or is not allowed in adoration? Can I do my homework in his presence?
39:40 – CCC 2156 discusses receiving a Christian name. Did my parents mess up by not naming me after a saint?
43:54 – What is the Church’s view on suicide?
49:08 – If a person goes to Catholic school and is poorly catechized would he be culpable or would he have invincible ignorance?

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0:31.5	There's just certain people that there's kind of a buzz around them.
0:36.3	Dr. David Andrews is one of those
0:37.9	people. It's exciting when he's on. He's got a very well-earned appreciation among the Catholic
0:44.5	community for his wonderful, solid answers on called to communion. You hear him on the EWTN networks,
0:51.2	and he's a convert to the Catholic faith, and he helps people into the Catholic
0:55.6	faith. I think he also helps many people remain in the Catholic faith, getting the realization
0:59.9	that, oh, there are answers to all these questions that I've got. And you can ask
1:04.7	it whatever you want. 888-3187-884. I will say this. I know he loves talking with non-Catholics
1:10.5	about the Catholic faith,
1:11.5	so if you're not a Catholic, feel especially welcome this hour. 8883187-884. Dr. David Anders,
1:19.1	thank you very much for being here with us. Hey, it's my pleasure. Thank you for having me.
1:23.3	Oh, yeah, and it is exciting to have you. I've told you this before, but everywhere I go,
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1:36.5	you know, because I work at Catholic Answers, on Catholic Radio's Catholic Answers, they don't say
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