#12464 Can We Hire Psychics for Missing Persons and Other Teachings? - Karlo Broussard

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Can we hire psychics for missing persons?” This episode explores the Church’s stance on seeking psychic help, addressing whether this teaching stems from Jesus or the catechism. Additionally, we delve into Aquinas’ views on predestination versus Calvin’s, the implications of a new document on Mary, and the fate of souls at the Second Coming.

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Questions Covered:

01:52 – A priest told me that we should never hire a psychic to find a missing person. Is this a teaching directly from Jesus or does it come from the catechism?
14:42 – How does Aquinas’ view on predestination differ from Calvin’s?
29:33 – Can you clarify what this new document on Mary means?
38:30 – If Jesus comes tomorrow, what happens to the souls in purgatory and the souls on earth who are in friendship with Christ but have the stain of sin?
45:07 – What are the logical arguments for affirming that Jesus was who he said he was?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live, one hour down, another hour to go of which Catholic doctrine troubles you. I am your host,
0:39.3	Thomas Graff. I'm filling in for Cy Kellett today and tomorrow until he returns from his travels.
0:44.5	And with us as our guest is our very own staff apologist, our very own PhD, our very own author
0:50.4	of books such as baptism now saves you, the saints pray for you, purgatory is for real, and a whole lot of others. It is the one, and only Dr. Carlo Broussard. Carlo, thanks so much for your great answers in first hour. Do you think he can live up to it in the second hour? Well, I don't know. That'll be up to the Lord whether or not he wills to give me the graces or not. So we shall see.
1:12.4	And it'll be up to the callers to see if they will to give us questions that will tee you up for those world-class answers we're so used to.
1:20.0	So, Samuel, I hope you have the question to make Carlos sound really, really good.
1:25.6	Samuel is calling from Columbus, Ohio. He's
1:27.7	going to kick us off this hour from St. Gabriel Radio. Samuel, you are now on the air. Go ahead
1:32.9	with your question for Carla Broussard. Thank you very much. I really feel bad when I heard Raymond.
1:43.2	I don't know how old he is, but I'm 71, and there was a time
1:47.0	when I was always crying like he was and choked up. I've adjusted. My question isn't about
1:55.0	the sacraments, but it is about the sacramentals.
1:59.0	Years ago, I lived in a house. Two people were murdered in the house.
2:04.0	There was six people in my family. Four people moved out because of hearing ghost and
2:12.2	having fear. So I went to the priest. He blessed the house. Nothing got better.
2:21.3	I got really worse, suicidal twice in the last 25 years. I've joined the Knights of Columbus.
2:29.8	I've joined the Mercadarian Order. I've prayed at least three times a day of the Rosary.
2:37.0	I listened to the priest at 930 on this radio station and Father Schmitz for Bible study.
2:45.5	And like Raymond, but no, unlike Raymond, I'm still keeping the faith, but I'm not able to run the race or fight to fight like I used to because when you said that God is not bound by the sacraments, it seems like the devil certainly isn't afraid of the sacramentals because nothing improved
3:10.5	in the house, and I haven't improved very much myself.
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