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#12404 Can Non-Catholics Be Saved, Confession, and Feast Days? - Karlo Broussard

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Can non-Catholics be saved?” This episode explores the nuances of salvation beyond Catholicism, while also addressing why Catholics confess to a priest instead of going directly to God, and the significance of feast days in the Church.

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Questions Covered:

  • 03:12 – Why do protestants not make the sign of the cross before praying like Catholics?
  • 10:54 – Why do we confess our sins to a priest and not just go directly to God?
  • 14:55 – Why do Catholics believe that they are the one true church if people from other denominations can make it to heaven without becoming Catholic?
  • 20:57 – How do I answer the following protestant arguments: Transcendental argument for God and rejecting the Thomist view? The fallible list of infallible books argument?
  • 48:58 – Why do Catholics have feast days where they carry statues of Mary?

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:36.4

Hey, there's two lines open. Sneak in now,

0:38.6

if you've got a why question. And you know what? I'll tell you what, I'd like to make a particular

0:42.7

invitation to people who might not be Christian, or maybe are Christian but not Catholic.

0:48.0

And you'd like to know why. Why do you believe in that stuff that you believe in? Why do you

0:52.9

have this teaching or that teaching? It would be great to talk with you. I mean, it's been fun to talk with the Catholics who have called, and if you're Catholic, I'm not saying don't call. I'm just trying to stir something up, get a little something going with those who are not Catholic. Maybe people who, look, you know what? You may not be familiar with the show, but if you don't believe in God, if you don't believe in any of this stuff that we believe in, we would like to talk with you. Like, you, it doesn't have to be, like, we're not, like, it's not like a shouting match type show, at least I would prefer, I would prefer, I don't know how you feel about shouting matches, Dr. Brousard, but I don't want to make it a shouting match, but I would love to talk with people who are not Catholic or not Christian.

1:33.6

Yeah, I am not in favor of shouting matches, to say the least. When's the last one you got into? Do you remember your last one?

1:40.7

And I don't know if I've ever gotten a shouting match. Oh really? You are so much better than me.

1:47.0

Maybe maybe I did and I just can't remember it. My memory is quite flawed and bad at times.

1:54.1

Maybe people are afraid of you. That's why I don't think anyone's afraid of me. So I end up in shouting

1:57.8

match, but they're like, I'm not shouting at that guy. I'm not going to shout at him. But they don't care about shouting at me. But actually, most of the shouting matches I've been in my life, I was the one that started this. I got to admit that. So, look, if you want a shouting match, go ahead. We'll just put you on hold when you start shouting. But anybody, if you want to call it. It's okay to call and say, I don't get why you believe in any of this stuff.

2:18.5

Why do you believe in the Bible? put you on hold when you start shouting. But anybody, if you want to call it, it's okay to call and say,

2:22.2

I don't get why you believe in any of this stuff. Why do you believe in the Bible? Why do you believe in this? Sometimes people say bronze age religion. It's not a bronze age religion, by the way.

2:26.7

You should check your history. It's an iron age religion. And then a steel. Did you know they had

2:32.2

steel by the time Jesus came around? Those Roman

2:36.6

swords weren't iron. They were steel. So it's not a Bronze Age religion, but even if you want to

2:41.5

say it that way, you're welcome to call. But anybody, it's got a question about why we believe

2:45.8

what we believe. 888-3187-884. I don't know why it bugs me.

2:50.9

It just bugs me every time people say you believe in that Bronze Age religion.

2:54.5

I feel like, you can make fun of me if you want, but it's not a Bronze Age religion.

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