#12191 Questions from Non-Catholics - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions covered:

06:53 – I read in the Catechism that you need to be in the state of grace to receive the sacrament of confirmation. What happens if you’re not?
18:24 – If a Catholic and a non-Catholic both do something that’s a mortal sin, and they both know what the Catholic Church teaches, is the non-Catholic also culpable for mortal sin?
28:45 – Was there anything Pope Francis actually did to change any teachings in the Catholic Church?
35:04 – Why did the Catholic Church need to dogmatize the Assumption of Mary?
43:31 – What is the practical effect that the pope has on the world when he makes a pronouncement or encourages the world, considering most of the world isn’t Catholic and doesn’t have reason to listen to him?
50:12 – How does the Pope’s authority compare to the Bible’s?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome to Catholic Answers Live. My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show and filling in for Sykelet today.
0:37.2	It's an honor to be with you guys today on this beautiful day and to start you guys off for the week.
0:42.1	So it's been a fun last week, fun weekend and an eventful one over the Catholic news sources.
0:49.9	So today what we're going to do is we're going to take questions from non-Catholics.
0:53.7	So if you are not a Catholic, whether you're Protestant, you're Eastern Orthodox, or your
0:59.0	atheist, or anything like that, anything that's not Catholic, anybody who is not Catholic,
1:05.0	you are more than welcome to give us a call.
1:06.9	We want to talk to you.
1:08.2	I know the Catholic Church has been in the news quite a bit over the
1:10.8	past week or so, with the death of, with Pope Francis and the election of the new Pope, Pope Leo
1:16.7	the 14th. It's, I'm sure it might have spiked some interest in understanding what Catholicism really is.
1:23.7	So we're here for you. And when I say we, to answer your questions, I specifically mean Dr. Carlo Broussard, who is a staff apologist here at Catholic Cancer, is going to be
1:31.3	able to answer your questions for all of those non-Catholic. So if you want, go ahead, give us a call
1:36.9	888-3187-884. That's AAA-31-Truth. And Dr. Carla Broussard will answer your question.
1:45.2	Speaking of the man, hello, Dr. Carla Broussard.
1:47.9	How are you?
1:48.8	Edgar.
1:49.7	Thanks for having me, buddy.
1:50.9	I'm doing well.
1:51.9	Great to be with you.
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