#12513 Catholic Missteps Against Protestants - Karlo Broussard
Catholic Answers Live
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this Catholic Answers Live episode, we examine the Catholic understanding of justification in light of Scripture. The discussion begins with James 2:24 and the question of being “justified by works,” followed by the Church’s rejection of works preceding initial justification. We then explain how Catholics reconcile good works with grace through cooperation, respond to Romans 3:28 and “works of the law,” and conclude with a defense of Sacred Tradition alongside Scripture. A clear, step-by-step breakdown of how faith, grace, works, and tradition fit together in Catholic teaching.
Topics Covered:
- 05:45 – We’re Justified by Works—James 2:24
- 18:01 – The Catholic Rejection of Works Preceding Initial Justification
- 30:28 – The Catholic Attempt to Reconcile Our Good Works with Grace—“We Must Cooperate with grace”
- 36:38 – The Catholic Counter to Romans 3:28—“We are Justified by Faith and Not Works of the Law”
- 49:35 – The Catholic’s Appeal to Oral Traditions Beyond Scripture
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. It's the Eve of the Eve. Christmas Eve Eve, I always like to say that every year. I enjoy when we get to Christmas Eve Eve of the Eve. Christmas Eve Eve, Eve. |
| 0:38.3 | I always like to say that every year. |
| 0:39.3 | I enjoy when we get to Christmas Eve Eve Eve. |
| 0:41.3 | And I suppose yesterday was Christmas Eve Eve Eve. |
| 0:44.3 | But you could do that for all 365 days. |
| 0:47.3 | We'll just say today. |
| 0:49.3 | And, you know, people are out there all bundled up, |
| 0:53.3 | getting that last minute shopping done. |
| 0:56.7 | And I don't know. |
| 0:59.5 | Did you start cooking the turkey yet? |
| 1:01.1 | I'm not good at this. |
| 1:02.0 | No, you probably still got a while to cook the turkey. |
| 1:04.6 | But we're going to have some fun as we approach the big feast coming up, the feast of the nativity of the Lord, also called |
| 1:14.2 | Christmas Day. And the fun we're going to have is with Dr. Carla Boussard, who's here with us. |
| 1:20.0 | And we're going to do two things, but in this first hour, we're going to talk and we're just |
| 1:25.1 | going to have a conversation with Dr. Roussard about some of the things, you know, we're going to talk and we're just going to have a conversation with Dr. Roussard about some of the |
| 1:30.8 | things, you know, we want to have these conversations with our Protestant neighbors, with our |
| 1:35.6 | Protestant relatives, with our Protestant friends, and we want to talk about faith and scripture. |
| 1:43.0 | There's always the conversations have these |
| 1:45.4 | elements to them. You know, what Protestants differ from Christians on an understanding of faith, |
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