#190 Helpers on High (Part 1) - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 15 May 2019

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Karlo Broussard is the author of Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church. He joins us for a three-part conversation about our friends in Heaven, the Saints, and why we should befriend our helpers on high. The Catechism states,”It is not merely by the title of example that we cherish the memory of those in heaven; we seek, rather, that by this devotion to the exercise of fraternal charity the union of the whole Church in the Spirit may be strengthened. Exactly as Christian communion among our fellow pilgrims brings us closer to Christ, so our communion wit…

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0:00.0	Whether you know it or not you have friends in heaven, Carlo Broussard is here to explain.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus.
0:11.0	I am Cy Kellett, your host. Thank you so much for joining us.
0:16.0	This time we welcome back our good friend and apologist extraordinary Carla Broussard.
0:20.5	Hi, Carla.
0:21.5	Hey, Cy, that's quite the introduction brother. Hopefully I can live up to those expectations.
0:25.6	Extraordinary? Yeah, Extraordinair, right. But good friend is even higher than apologist's extraordinary.
0:31.5	Well, you know what, Cy, you're just such a great guy and an easy guy to get along with.
0:35.8	I can live up to that expectation and be a good friend to you, man.
0:39.8	But what we're going to talk about is good friends in very high places.
0:43.2	Amen to that.
0:44.4	Over the course of the next few Fochai I think is the Italian plural of focus or Fochi and so well I should mention Carlo's book is most
0:57.8	recently published book is Prepare the Way overcoming obstacles to God the
1:01.7	Gospel and the church.
1:03.0	Got another book coming out in the fall that will be called
1:06.0	Answering the Protestant challenge.
1:08.0	That's the working title.
1:10.0	They may tweak it a little bit, we'll see,
1:12.0	but that's the working main title.
1:13.2	But it's actually a very respectful book in this sense that Protestant people, Protestant theologians,
1:19.2	Protestant thinkers raise very serious intellectual objections to the Catholic faith and we should respect
1:26.8	that by answering those objections.
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