#12243 Understanding Catholic Doctrine: Sin, Justification, and the Sacraments with Karlo Broussard - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Karlo Broussard answers questions on Catholic doctrine, Church history, and theological distinctions. Why does the Church teach the difference between mortal and venial sin? What is the Catholic response to the idea of ordaining women in the Eastern Orthodox Church? Karlo also clarifies the requirements for conditional baptism and confirmation, explores the similarities and differences between Catholic and Lutheran views on justification, and discusses the traditional order of the sacraments in the Latin Rite. Plus, learn how the early Church understood purgatory and when belief in it began to fade.

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Questions Covered:

00:59 – Why does the Catholic Church teach the distinction between mortal and venial sin?

16:43 – If the Eastern Orthodox Church were to ordain women, would such ordinations be considered sacramentally valid?

21:49 – What are the conditions under which conditional baptism or confirmation may be granted, and why might one be approved while the other is not?

31:56 – What are the key differences and similarities between the Catholic and Lutheran views on justification? Are they closer than commonly believed?

46:45 – Is there any movement within the Latin Rite to restore the traditional sacramental order—Baptism, Confirmation, then Eucharist—especially for infants?

51:43 – When and why did belief in purgatory begin to decline, and how was it understood in the early Church?

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0:38.2	The whys of Catholic belief, Y, W-H-Y, why do Catholics believe what we believe?
0:45.3	If you're a Catholic and there's something you know we believe, and you're like, why do we believe that?
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0:56.1	successors to the apostles, and we believe that Mary was immaculately conceived, and we believe that
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