#12377 Can Protestants Understand Infant Baptism and Purgatory? - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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“Can Protestants understand infant baptism and purgatory?” This episode explores the nuances of these topics, including what the Protestant view on infant baptism reveals about their understanding of sin, and how Catholics interpret purgatory in light of scripture. Additionally, we delve into the significance of saints’ relics and the complexities of baptismal regeneration.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:45 – Some Protestants don’t believe in infant baptism, what does that tell us about their understanding of sin and how does that compare to the Catholic view?
- 12:16 – I understand the Catholic teaching on cremated remains is to not separate them. But if that’s the case, why do we have cases where certain saints’ body parts are in different locations? It seems like that contradicts the policy on cremated remains.
- 20:20 – How do Catholics understand Purgatory in light of Hebrews 9:27?
- 24:44 – How do you determine what a saint is a patron of? Like how does someone become patron saint if pilots when airplanes weren’t even invented yet when they lived?
- 34:45 – Can you comment on the different translations of Luke 1:28, why Protestant Bibles say “greetings o favored one” and why Catholic bibles say “hail full of grace”?
- 44:45 – What is the Catholic interpretation of 1 John 5:1 with regard to baptismal regeneration? I’m struggling to square “if you believe you’ve been born of God” with having to be baptized.
- 51:50 – I practice no meat on Fridays. How do I keep up this practice during times when there are lots of feast days or solemnities on Fridays?
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| 0:55.3 | But for the first hour, we have our one and only Dr. Carlo Broussard. |
| 0:58.9 | He's going to be here to talk to you about your Protestant challenges, your Protestant questions. |
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| 1:23.1 | AAA 31-Truth to talk to Dr. Carla Broussard about your Protestant challenge or your |
| 1:28.9 | Protestant question. Dr. Carla Broussard is the host of the podcast Sunday Catholic Word |
| 1:35.5 | and author of many books, including his new one. Baptism now saves you. Dr. Carla Broussard, |
| 1:41.7 | it's great to be here with you. Edgar, it's great to be |
| 1:45.0 | with you too, my friend. Thank you. Absolutely, yeah, of course. Of course it's great. So with your |
| 1:50.6 | newest book, I mean, congratulations on the newest book, by the way. It's, thank you. You're just adding |
| 1:56.4 | to the collection, adding to the resume. That's cool. So obviously tackling a lot of the popular |
| 2:02.7 | Protestant challenges. Even if you look at the threat of your books, you have the Protestant |
| 2:08.3 | threat among it, including before the baptism book, you had the Saints Pray for You, |
| 2:16.0 | and then you also have, with the baptism one, |
| 2:19.0 | a topic that there's so many different angles that Protestants take. I mean, from infant baptism |
| 2:27.6 | to sprinkling and immersion to it's not in the Bible versus it saves and it doesn't, so many |
| 2:33.4 | different perspectives that |
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