#304 Are Indulgences a Scam? - Karlo Broussard

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

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The author of Purgatory Is for Real, Karlo Broussard, explains the reality of indulgences and why they are effective in paying off debts. What is the deal with indulgences? Karlo Broussard is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. One of the things that comes with being Catholic is the understanding that there are many real and true and existing things. There are aspects of reality that are not obvious to our seeing, hearing, tasting, touching and smelling, and ar…

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0:00.0	What is the deal with indulgences?
0:02.8	Carla Broussard is next.
0:04.8	Hello and welcome to focus.
0:10.8	The Catholic Answers Podcast for Living, Understanding, and Defending Your
0:14.1	Catholic Faith. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. And one of the things that comes with being Catholic
0:19.6	is the understanding that there are many real and true and existing things.
0:25.8	There are aspects of reality
0:27.6	that are not obvious to our seeing, hearing,
0:30.7	tasting, touching, and smelling
0:32.4	and are not accessible even to our science.
0:35.6	They are revealed to us.
0:37.6	Among the hardest for people to accept is the idea of indulgences.
0:42.2	In part, it's certainly true that this is because there's been kind of a 500 year
0:46.6	war on indulgences, starting with the Martin Luther's 95 theses on the Vittburg Church door to today.
0:55.0	There has been within Christianity a war on indulgences.
0:59.4	But indulgences are real.
1:00.8	It doesn't matter how long the war goes on or how long we fight against it. They will continue
1:05.3	to be a real part of reality and particularly of the reality of the Christian faith. So we invited Carlo Broussard to come in,
1:14.8	tell us about indulgences,
1:16.3	and particularly how do we get them?
1:18.0	How do they work?
1:19.6	Let's check in with Carlo.
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