#12601 Why Aren’t You Catholic? Authority, Confession, and Mary - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Why Aren’t You Catholic?” addresses the question of infallible authority in the Church, particularly in light of claims from some Christians. The discussion also touches on whether confession is necessary if baptism forgives sins, the marital status of Peter, and the implications of Mary’s immaculate conception.

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Questions Covered:

03:48 – “Some Christians say they’re not Catholic because they don’t see any evidence for any sort of infallible authority continuing after the apostles.”
13:10 – In the Nicene Creed when we pray “One Baptism for the forgiveness of sins…” does this mean we do not need confession?
23:34 – Was Peter married?
32:48 – If Mary was immaculately conceived, why did she have to die?
41:32 – The Church does not seem divinely inspired, so how can it claim to teach infallibility?
48:09 – Will sins confessed an absolved by a priest be read in our final judgement?

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0:41.6	to be with us. We did our very best to put together a great show for you today. Second hour,
0:46.4	our good friend, Dr. Greg Popcheck, is going to be here. You know him from More to Life with
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1:00.7	And so we've really been enjoying having him on.
1:04.0	And today, we're going to ask him about Lent and relationships.
1:07.6	Is there a way that we can kind of, how would I say this, almost tap into or open
1:12.1	ourselves to the graces of Lent as a way of healing the relationships in our lives? So hang on
1:18.9	for second hour for that. First hour, try to beat this to start the week. Dr. Carla Bussard,
1:23.6	our guests, and we're asking why aren't you Catholic? And if you're not a Catholic and you want to tell us, we would love it if you'd pick up the phone and call 888-3187884, 3187884. If you're one of those people, and there's very few of them anymore, who? Who? Dr. Carlo Roussard. Carlo Bursar, he's the author of meeting the Protestant
1:46.1	challenge, meeting the Protestant response, prepare the way, purgatory is for real, the new
1:53.7	relativism, the saints pray for you, and baptism now saves you. I think that's all seven of them. And he's got a wonderful podcast,
2:03.1	the Dr. Carlo podcast, which we will talk about as we go. You can find that. You know, I think
2:08.3	where everyone's finding stuff these days, I mean, I'm not totally hepped to everything cool
2:12.0	that's happening, but they're finding it on YouTube channels. Check out his YouTube channel.
2:16.2	Just look on YouTube for Dr. Carlo, but spell it with a K. Dr. Carla Bursard, thank you so much for being here with us. Sorry, Kelly. Thanks for having me, man. It's great to be on with you. You've been busy today. You've been helping out Catecumans with their preparation, So I do appreciate that you took the time to come
2:36.0	here and do this with us. Oh, man, as always, it's a pleasure. Yeah, I had a couple of hours of
2:40.8	conversation, continued conversation with two catechumans who are seeking to become Catholic
2:46.3	this year, and they have a lot of questions that have you know they just haven't had time to get to
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