#12244 What the Catholic Church Teaches on Evolution, Adam & Eve, and More - Karlo Broussard
Catholic Answers Live
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Catholic Answers Live, Karlo Broussard answers a range of insightful questions about Scripture, Church teaching, and Catholic doctrine. He explains how Matthew 25 supports the Catholic view that good works are essential for salvation, addresses why the Church typically welcomes converts at the Easter Vigil, and points to biblical evidence for purgatory. Karlo also clarifies how annulments work, discusses the value of formal theological study versus self-education, and offers guidance on teaching the origins of Adam and Eve alongside Church teaching on evolution. Finally, he shares the Catholic perspective on the teachings of John MacArthur.
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Questions Covered:
01:49 – How does Matthew 25 support the Catholic view that good works play a role in salvation, in contrast to the Protestant view of faith alone?
12:30 – Why does the Catholic Church typically receive converts during one specific time of the year, such as at the Easter Vigil?
17:54 – Where can the doctrine of purgatory be found in Scripture?
31:02 – When an annulment is granted by the Church, is it effective immediately or does it apply retroactively to the original marriage date?
37:03 – For someone deepening their faith later in life, is it better to pursue formal theological education or engage in structured self-study?
44:10 – What is the Church’s teaching on the origins of Adam and Eve and how can it be effectively taught alongside the theory of evolution?
52:07 – What is the Catholic Church’s perspective on the teachings of Protestant pastor John MacArthur?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live, Dr. Carlo Rousard, our guests this hour as last. |
| 0:35.1 | And our topic, the wise of Catholic belief. If Catholics believe something and |
| 0:39.4 | you'd like to know why they believe that, you are welcome to call. If you're Catholic, |
| 0:43.5 | you can call. If you're not Catholic, you can call. Those are the only two categories that can call. |
| 0:46.9 | 8883187-884. I'm going to start out with a question for Dr. Bussard, but there are four lines open. |
| 0:55.3 | You can get in, and I will get to the calls that are on the line. I have a why question for you, |
| 1:00.4 | Carlo. All right. You put me on the spot here. Why does the church teach that if you drop a microphone |
| 1:06.9 | and you hurt your hand, the producer's not supposed to laugh at you on your way out of the studio. Why do they teach that? Why is that taught by the cat? Because that would be contrary to |
| 1:14.4 | love of neighbor. I know, right? Rejoicing the suffering of another has an end in and of itself. |
| 1:20.5 | What if your finger really hurts and it makes a big joke out of it? Well, that would seem to be |
| 1:27.4 | contrary to the love of neighbor. |
| 1:29.3 | It's a big, that's a complete hypothetical. |
| 1:32.1 | Also, what if he clips out that part of the video and sends it to the other employees in the |
| 1:36.0 | building? |
| 1:36.4 | What do you think about that? |
| 1:37.7 | No, never mind. |
| 1:38.4 | Well, I think that's just salt in the wound, everybody. |
| 1:42.1 | All right, let's go to Indianapolis, Indiana, where Elizabeth |
| 1:45.6 | is listening on YouTube. Welcome, Elizabeth. Go ahead with your question for Dr. Roussard. |
| 1:51.9 | Hello, hi. Hello. Hello. Dr. Brassard. My question is, it's more of a question |
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