#12234 Was Mary Really Immaculately Conceived? Could Jesus Be Born of a Sinner? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Karlo Broussard answers the questions: Why must Mary have been Immaculately Conceived—couldn’t Jesus have been born of a sinner? How does addiction affect the conditions for mortal sin? Karlo discusses the Church’s teaching on free will, grave matter, and culpability. He also addresses the claim of annihilationism—does the Bible really support eternal punishment in hell? Plus, is it accurate to call non-Catholics “Christians,” or should we still use the term “heretics”?

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Questions Covered:

12:08 – Why do we say that Mary “must have” been Immaculately conceived? It seems like Jesus could have been born from someone even if they had original sin.

17:00 – How do the three conditions for mortal sin relate to the area of addiction? Can the consent of the will be lessened by an addiction?

29:47 – What is real factual evidence that annihilationism is false, and wrong to believe?

39:23 – I struggle with calling non-Catholics Christians. It doesn’t seem to fit with the old style of calling them heretics.

47:12 – My protestant friend has trouble with the idea of praying to the dead. When did the practice begin? And is it in the New Testament?

51:37 – Where in the Bible does it teach against contraception?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers Live.
0:32.6	I am Cy Kill at your host.
0:33.8	Dr. Carlo Broussard is our guest.
0:35.4	We're going to take a minute to introduce you to somebody.
0:37.9	And then, because every now and then we get a new person around here.
0:42.0	And we got a wonderful new member of the radio department here, also called Catholic Cancer Studios.
0:47.4	But we're just delighted with him.
0:52.1	I do not know where he came from or who invented him, but like today we
0:57.3	were in a meeting and he's a, he's studied computer science and he's here to help us to develop
1:03.9	our social media presence, our YouTube presence, all that. And I'm probably not even using the
1:09.5	right words for it, but he was explaining some stuff to,
1:13.2	and I'm sorry to call you old, Darren,
1:14.7	but compared to him, you're old, three old guys today.
1:17.3	And at the end of his explanation
1:18.8	of what he was doing with the computers,
1:20.8	I just said, why are you working for us?
1:24.1	Like you should be running Google or something like that.
1:27.1	So I want to introduce our
1:28.4	latest edition here to the Catholic Answers Studios department. Luke, thanks for coming in.
1:35.9	My pleasure. Sorry, did I freak out there? Look, if you stare right out of me, freezes.
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