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#12483 How To Respond to Protestants – Mary’s Assumption and Tobit - Karlo Broussard

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“How To Respond to Protestants – Mary’s Assumption and Tobit” Today’s show answers caller’s questions regarding how to defend the Catholic faith. Additionally, the conversation touches on the historical context of Mary’s assumption and the challenges surrounding the book of Tobit, including its implications on purity and divine inspiration.

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Questions Covered:

  • 04:30 – Catholics say that Mary’s bodily assumption is something divinely revealed. Yet, there is no historical attestation of this belief until the 5th century.
  • 23:13 – How do we answer the challenge that we don’t recrucify Jesus at every mass since it is a sacrifice?
  • 34:45 – What do Catholics make of the Desposyni?
  • 46:12 – Tobit. How is Tobit not made unclean by carrying dead animal parts and why does an angel lie? This doesn’t seem like the book of Tobit is an inspired book

Transcript

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Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello, welcome to KathaGansans live, Sykelet here, your host, Dr. Carlo

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Hussard, our guest this hour, And next, and this is going to be a

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little bit of a fun one, I think, because if you've got a Protestant challenge to the Catholic

0:45.8

faith, we would love to hear it. One thing I don't like about Carlo at all is he's nice to everybody.

0:52.2

He loves to listen to other people's views. He likes to learn from

0:55.5

other people. So unfortunately, he won't be brutalizing you, trying to humiliate you, trying to

1:02.3

defeat you or stomp you into the ground. He'll be listening and we'll have a conversation

1:05.9

about what you believe and what we believe, but we would love to hear Protestant challenges

1:11.0

to the Christian faith today.

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8883187-884, triple-8-384.

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3187-884.

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It could be, you may come with a very advanced

1:24.6

kind of theological complaint, or maybe you have a more general complaint about the way Catholics

1:31.2

do things or the way Catholics live out our religious life, whatever it is. If you have a

1:38.1

Protestant critique, criticism, correction to the Catholic faith that you would like to share,

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and we will have a conversation

1:44.8

about it. You are welcome to call 8883187-884. Carla Boussard, the author of, oh, I got that the whole

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stack of the books right here, but let's do that. Oh, this one is a challenging one for Protestants.

1:58.3

Purgatory is for real. Maybe that's one you want to call about. The Saints is for real. Maybe that's one you want to call

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about. The Saints pray for you. Maybe that's one you want to call about. Baptism now saves you.

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