#12273 What Are the Real Criteria for Mortal Sin? A Catholic Breakdown - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Many Catholics struggle with understanding what truly makes a sin mortal. In this episode, the hosts offer a clear explanation of the three conditions: grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent. They explore common misconceptions, offer real-life examples, and help listeners better examine their consciences with clarity and confidence rooted in Church teaching.

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Questions Covered:

16:42 – I’m Orthodox and don’t believe that purgatory is a belief of the first century. What evidence do Catholics provide for it?
28:15 – Can I come up with my own mysteries of the rosary to meditate on?
34:44 – I feel the current criteria for mortal sin is not properly fleshed out to what they actually mean. How can one actually know what these 3 criteria actually constitute?
48:22 – The Filioque troubles me. How is it that a previous pope saw it problematic, yet a later pope included it?
52:47 – Can you clarify how there is salvation outside the Church?

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0:39.9	Feeling summary, Carlo and I both wearing our baby blue shirts. We did not call each other before the show
0:44.7	and say, what are you wearing? What are you wearing? We didn't do that, but we are both wearing
0:49.0	the same color shirts. And I think we both look equally stunning in them. I'm trying to flex here. I think we look,
0:57.5	we're both carrying it off. Let me just put it that way. Hey, today we got Dr. Carla Bussard with us for
1:02.5	both hours, and he wants to talk with you about which Catholic doctrine troubles you. This is
1:06.4	usually a popular one, so you might dial now. If there's a Catholic doctrine that bothers
1:10.8	you. it doesn't
1:12.1	sit right with you. You can't grasp it. You're not sure what it means. Whatever. If you've got a
1:16.7	problem with a Catholic doctrine, 888-3187-884 is the number, triple-8-387-884. Doctrines are the teachings of the church.
1:29.8	The church teach something that you just are still struggling with.
1:36.3	Maybe you're not a Catholic, and you think, well, that troubles me.
1:39.3	I don't believe in the infallibility of the Pope. I don't believe in the transubstantiation of
1:47.3	the Eucharist. That's fine. You can call. We'd love to talk with you. Or you might be a Catholic
1:51.3	who does believe in it, but it just troubles you. I don't see how it could be. I accept it,
1:55.9	but I don't see how that works. I don't get it. Or maybe you don't accept it. Maybe you've gotten to that
2:01.8	point of a struggle, and you'd like some help with that. Wherever you are, whatever angle you're
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