#12192 Questions from Non-Catholics - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions covered:

04:54 – Why do non-Catholics who want to join the Church need to go through OCIA instead of just joining immediately?
14:33 – How is the Catholic Church’s apostolic succession compare to what other churches believe?
21:43 – How does the intercession of the saints work when the Bible says that men are appointed to die once, and then face judgement?
28:53 – I go to church every once in a while with my family and I take communion, but I heard that I’m not supposed to do that. What are the rules?
40:30 – Is Jesus’ renaming of Simon the reason why the pope takes a different name?
44:09 – I have a hard time accepting the perpetual virginity of Mary. I don’t think she’d want to refuse giving Joseph as many sons as possible, and John’s Gospel clearly mentions brothers of Jesus.

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0:32.7	My name is Edgar Lujano, producer for the show, and I'm filling in for Cykella today.
0:37.4	It's always an honor when I get to fill in and be on this side of the glass.
0:41.1	And the coolest part is when I get to hang out with Dr. Carla Broussard, because it's always a blast
0:44.9	hanging out and talking with him.
0:47.2	I will say this.
0:48.4	Today is an even cooler show because we get to talk to non-Catholics, and it's always
0:52.2	cool talking to non-Catholics and it's always cool talking to non-Catholics.
0:54.6	So today, if you have a question, we do have some lines open 8883187884.
1:01.8	That's AAA31-Truth.
1:04.1	Dr. Carlo Broussard is the host of the Sunday Catholic Word podcast where he takes on the Sunday Mass Readings from a very unique
1:14.1	perspective.
1:15.0	That's the apologetical perspective as compared to others.
1:18.3	I mean, there's a lot of really great podcasts out there that take on the Sunday Mass
1:22.0	readings, but that cool spin on apologetics is something that you'll get from Dr. Carla Brousso.
1:27.8	Do you have that pulled up or do you have a, what you had this past week or what you have
1:31.5	coming up?
1:32.5	Yeah, so since it's Monday, I suppose I should mention what I spoke on for this past
1:39.7	weekends, liturgical readings, Good Shepherd Sunday.
1:43.5	In the episode for this past Sunday, I looked
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