#12714 How Is the Eucharist Not Cannibalism? Holy Spirit and Sin - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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“How is the Eucharist not cannibalism?” This question opens a discussion on the nature of the Eucharist, addressing misconceptions while also touching on the movement of the Holy Spirit in communities, the need for an infallible interpreter of scripture, and the concept of mortal sin in Catholic teaching.

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Questions Covered:

04:24 – How is the Eucharist not cannibalism?
15:30 – I think the Pentecostal belief in the real movement of the Holy Spirit within the community was pretty convincing. What is the best response to this?
22:31 – How do I answer the following: The Catholic argument that we need an infallible interpreter for scripture would not work because then you would need an infallible interpreter of the infallible interpreter and so on.
37:08 – For Catholics almost anything can be a mortal sin but for Jesus there is one mortal sin.
43:00 – What was lacking in Jesus that made the Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah in the early church?
52:15 – How do we interpret the magisterium? How do we know when we are interpreting the magisterium correctly?

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1:01.0	A couple lines open, as I said, and a few callers already on the line
1:05.0	who were hanging patiently through that break.
1:07.0	And before we get there, I do want to give our guest, Dr. Carlo Broussard,
1:12.6	an opportunity to talk about not just this big stack of books that I have here. I mean,
1:17.6	we've heard all about those, but your newest venture into the YouTube and podcast space,
1:22.9	the Dr. Carlo podcast. What's the latest going on over there, Carlo?
1:28.0	Yeah, so new episode will drop tomorrow, and that will be dealing with an argument posed
1:36.4	by Protestant apologist Gavin Ortland, who expresses concern with some of the Marian prayers
1:43.9	and hymns within our tradition, where he thinks they either,
1:48.0	A, undermine various theological things about salvation, where they involve false things about
1:58.0	salvation, attributing to Mary what we ought to be only attributing to Jesus
2:02.6	concerning our salvation, as well as devotional problems, where we seem to be usurping
2:09.9	the place of God with Mary in these Marian prayers and hymns. And so I respond to those concerns,
2:17.1	basically showing how what he's concerned
2:19.8	with in the language that's utilized and expressed, in fact, does not involve soteriological
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