#12744 How Can We Achieve Perfection? Purgatory and the Rosary - Karlo Broussard
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can we achieve perfection?” This question leads to a discussion on the steps we can take to avoid Purgatory, alongside insights on responding to Protestant challenges about Catholic doctrine. Other topics include the relationship between science and belief in God, the purpose of praying the Rosary, and the complexities of Church teachings on birth control.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:50 – What can we do to reach a level of perfection where we won’t have to go to Purgatory?
- 13:45 – How do we respond to Protestants when they challenge our Catholic doctrine?
- 22:10 – Is there a good book that addresses the scientific basis for God? My intelligent 22 year old grandson says science prohibits him from believing in God.
- 30:19 – I’ll be starting OCIA soon. Why pray the Rosary when we can go directly to God? And when would I pray the Rosary? It seems like if I just pray the Rosary I’d be giving up the fruitful prayer routine I already have. I wouldn’t want to give that up.
- 41:45 – The verbiage of CCC 2370 regarding birth control, “rendering procreation impossible” puzzles me. I’m not sure how it would apply because both artificial contraception and NFP have similar success rates.
- 48:29 – What are some of the sins that a regular priest can’t absolve? And what should a priest do if someone confesses something illegal?
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| 0:33.0 | I don't know about you, Carlo, but the first hour flew from me. |
| 0:35.9 | So I always say, oh, it did. I'm glad it did for you. I never know, because you guys do all the hard work, you know, and then I'm like, hey, that was a great hour. And then you're all wiping sweat off your brow. But, okay, I'm glad it flew for you. Technically, technically I was because I forgot to kick on the AC in the studio here. And it was like beaming hot. In fact, I was wondering if sweat beads were visible on the YouTube. I didn't see them. I'm going to go back now and look and see if there's any YouTube comments. Might have been an extra shiny. Have you turned the AC on now, or are we going to be? I did. Okay, all right. This will be a way better hour. Thanks, good of God. Way better. Hey, I am super grateful for modern technology, man. Me too. Maybe too. I really like. Did he say anything as in a cyclical about the good of technology for AC and heating and stuff? Did he mention AC and I didn't remember that? I don't know. I was reading good but I I didn't come across it yet, and I don't recall anything. Yeah, but technology is a good. He does affirm that. Amen. He does affirm that. It's a good, yeah. It's especially good on a hot summer day when you got the AC going. Oklahoma. Right, exactly. He has been intensive here, man. Has it already? It's so early in the summer. It's not even really summer yet. Oh, it's on. Really? It was like 100 degrees yesterday, 99 degrees. The humidity was like through the roof. I want to sing the song so bad, but I'm not allowed to sing songs on YouTube. But you said the heat is on. and now I've got Eddie Murphy. I know it. You know, it's going to come. Somebody stop me. |
| 2:04.7 | Somebody stop me. not allowed to sing songs on YouTube, but you said the heat is on. And now I've got Eddie Murphy. |
| 2:01.7 | I know it. You know, it's going to come. Somebody stop me. Somebody stop me. Turn my microphone off |
| 2:06.5 | before I get us find. Yeah, buttons for Sillo almost turn the, the mic off. All right. |
| 2:12.8 | Oh, yeah, copyright stuff. I didn't think about that. Yeah, you can. |
| 2:16.3 | I'm going to have to start exercising prudence now in custody of thought and word when it comes to like singing |
| 2:21.7 | song. You can't, you just start just singing something and then YouTube takes you off and then |
| 2:26.7 | you're done. Interesting. You're done so. You know how Bender, he's so nice, he's so friendly, |
| 2:32.5 | he's so calm, he just yells at us about, don't sing, he becomes so mean about don't sing or anything on the air. So, I mean, you can sing how great that are. I don't, that's out of copyright, but that's not the song that I had in mind. Ada is in Georgia watching on YouTube. Ada, you've been waiting. Thanks very much. Go ahead with your question. |
| 2:52.6 | No problem. You guys hear me okay? Very well, yeah. |
| 2:57.3 | Awesome. You got the AC on in Georgia today? |
| 3:01.5 | I do. It's pretty hot here. You said it like, I can't lie. That's how it came out like, no, I can't lie. I do. It's all right. |
| 3:10.0 | In Georgia, you're allowed to have AC on, Ada. |
| 3:13.3 | How different is that? So I have a devotion to the souls in purgatory, and as much as I love praying for them, I myself don't want to end up in purgatory. |
| 3:25.0 | So my hope, my question is how can we reach a level of perfection that's so sanctified |
| 3:35.0 | that when we die, we don't end up in purgatory. |
| 3:39.0 | We go straight to heaven. Yeah. You don't have to go through |
| 3:42.3 | any purification process. Yeah. Well, first of all, Ada, I want to commend you and praise |
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