#12653 Why Does God Call Sinners to Grace and Not the Damned? - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Why does God call sinners to grace and not the damned?” This question raises important theological discussions about divine mercy and justice. Other topics addressed include how Catholics believe they can attain heaven, the procession of the Holy Spirit, and the significance of choosing a saint’s name for baptism.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:20 – Catholicism doesn’t make sense to me because it says God moves a sinner to repentance by grace and yet he doesn’t do that for the damned. If God were all-loving, then wouldn’t he move the damned to repentance and forgive them?
- 13:28 – How do Catholics make it to heaven?
- 16:50 – Why do we say the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and Son and why do the Orthodox disagree?
- 22:44 – If this is the Church Jesus founded, how is it that the Church has done so much evil in Canada, the crusades?
- 45:33 – I’m getting baptized this Saturday. What is the meaning of picking a saint’s name for baptism?
- 52:30 – Why go to general confession and why repeatedly confess the same sins over and over again?
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| 0:32.6 | A very blessed Holy Week to you. |
| 0:34.3 | It is Holy Week, if you were unaware of that. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the week that Christians commemorate, excuse me, for my cough, Christians commemorate a whole lot of the big stuff, |
| 0:45.8 | you know, like the institution of the Eucharist and the establishment of the priesthood and |
| 0:52.2 | the most at the central event and all of human history, |
| 0:56.2 | the sacrificial death of the Lord, his suffering, his passion, his death. |
| 1:00.5 | And then we celebrate his resurrection from the dead. |
| 1:05.7 | And probably other things too. |
| 1:07.3 | I tried to just hit the highlights. |
| 1:08.5 | It's a very, very liturgically packed week. |
| 1:12.7 | And so, Blessed Holy Week to you. And we're here with us today for both hours, Dr. Carla |
| 1:17.8 | Broussard, and we're going to ask you, why don't you think Catholicism makes sense, |
| 1:22.4 | whether you're Catholic or you're not a Catholic? If there's something or everything |
| 1:26.3 | that just doesn't make sense to you |
| 1:27.8 | about Catholicism, we would love it if you would call 888-3187-884. Dr. Carla Bursard, |
| 1:35.4 | longtime apologists here at Catholic Answers, author of a whole stack of books, some of which are |
| 1:41.3 | responses to Protestant claims, some of which explain baptism or the |
| 1:47.2 | heavenly prayers of the saints. |
| 1:50.2 | So he's ready for your questions. |
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