#12442 Can I Become Catholic Without an Annulment? – Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Mark Brumley
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🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Can I become Catholic without an annulment?” This episode addresses the complexities of joining the Church, especially for those with previous marriages. Additionally, we explore questions about purgatory in the Protestant Bible, the implications of sola scriptura, and the reasons behind the Catholic Church’s calendar changes. Tune in for a thoughtful examination of these important topics.
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Questions Covered:
- 14:01 – If I was previously married and couldn’t get annulled and as a result and could never receive the Eucharist, why would I become Catholic?
- 24:22 – Where in the Protestant bible does it talk about purgatory?
- 33:31 – I’m interested in Catholicism, but I follow sola scriptura very strictly.
- 45:06 – Why did the Catholic Church change the calendar that now disagrees with the Orthodox?
- 50:44 – I’m thinking about leaving Catholicism because the Church discriminates against homosexuals from being admitted into seminary to become priests?
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| 1:23.5 | Happy to do it. I mean, I'm hearing that there are, you just asked a question that apparently J.D. Vance asks his wife from time to die. I don't know. |
| 1:36.5 | Why aren't you, that's what that's the question we're going with. The same one, J.D. |
| 1:41.9 | I don't know if he does that, but that's what I hear. I have, I will, I didn't mean, I didn't know you were going to bring it up, but I will say, I'm very sympathetic to J.D. Vance about this, but my wife was not a Christian when we married. She became Christian, I don't know, maybe five years into our marriage. And her thing was, look, I'm not doing this because you're Christian. I'm going to do |
| 2:02.1 | this when I know that it's the truth. And she took her time getting there, I thought. But, |
| 2:07.6 | but, uh, wow. But, uh, uh, her point of view on this one. You would she'd say, well, if I, |
| 2:14.5 | I know her point of view would be, well, if I had had a better example, I would have come in sooner. |
| 2:19.0 | But, you know, these marriages, well, I don't know. |
| 2:27.9 | You know, there's a wrong way to do this, too, and I will say that I did some things wrong about it. |
| 2:32.6 | And among them is thinking, you have something to share with your spouse and they should |
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