#12264 Early Church Writings, Marian Apparitions in Egypt, and Salvation Through the Catholic Church - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In This episode of Catholic Answers Live we cover questions on: Catholic-Muslim views on God, early Church writings, Arian heresies, salvation through the Church, Marian apparitions, explaining the Eucharist to Protestants, creation timeline in Genesis, Jesus’ agony in the Garden, and proper handling of cremated ashes.

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Questions Covered:

03:05 – What is a succinct apologetics response to the claim that Catholics worship the same God as Muslims? How can this be explained clearly to Protestants?
12:35 – Is there a book or collection of theological documents from the first to third centuries?
21:29 – How can one refute an Arian-type heresy when discussing with others?
29:15 – What does it mean that salvation comes through the Catholic Church, especially in light of the alleged Marian apparition above a Coptic church in Zeitoun, Egypt?
36:03 – How can the Catholic teaching on the Eucharist be explained to Protestants who claim it resembles cannibalism?
46:37 – Why did God wait until the fourth day to create the sun, moon, and stars when He said “let there be light” on the first day?
Follow-up – Why did Jesus agonize in the Garden of Gethsemane if He knew His Passion was necessary?
51:15 – If a family cannot afford cemetery entombment, is it permissible to spread a loved one’s ashes on cemetery grounds?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live, Dr. Carla Bursar, our guest, it's the wise of Catholic
0:35.1	belief. Two lines open right now.
0:41.1	If you've got a why question for us Catholics, maybe you're not a Catholic.
0:44.7	And there's something we believe that you're like, why do they, why are Catholics believe in this or that?
0:46.0	8883187, 884, maybe you're a Catholic.
0:49.5	And you don't know why we believe something.
0:51.7	I know there's stuff we hold as Catholic, because there's a lot of
0:56.0	stuff that I probably couldn't answer a why question on it. I'd have to think, I'm pretty sure
1:02.3	there's probably some good ones. I'm like, I don't know why we believe that. So, you know,
1:06.4	it's a lifelong endeavor being a Catholic. There's a lot to learn. God has, well, it's 2,000 years of history
1:12.4	and God's self-revelation in the person of Jesus, and there's a lot there. So if you've got a
1:17.7	why question, we would be happy to take it. 8883187-884. Dr. Carla Broussard is the author of a whole
1:26.7	bunch of books, including the most recent one.
1:30.4	Well, now I say the most recent one. To him, it's not the most reasoned one because he's got one in, you know, getting, I don't know,
1:39.0	they're probably stapling it together now or something. They're really don't staple them together,
1:41.9	but they're putting that book together now. And that's the one on baptism.
1:45.3	Baptism Now Saves You.
1:46.4	That'll be out this fall.
1:47.6	But his most recent book, a wonderful book called The Saints Pray for You.
1:52.9	And maybe you, maybe that's one you want to ask them about.
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