Dr. Karlo

“Does Jesus as the One Mediator Rule Out Invoking the Saints?”

Description: Does 1 Timothy 2:5 refute the Catholic practice of asking the saints to pray for us? In this episode, Karlo Broussard explains why Christ’s unique role as the one mediator is fully compatible with the intercession of the saints and shows how Scripture reveals creaturely intercessors participating in Christ’s heavenly ministry.

 

Some Protestants object to the Catholic practice of requesting the saints’ intercession on the grounds that it contradicts 1 Timothy 2:5, where Paul writes, “There is one mediator b...

To Forgive or Preach? What Jesus Meant by “Forgive Sins” in John 20:23

In John 20:23, Jesus tells the apostles:

“If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”

For Catholics, that’s proof Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Confession.

But our Protestant friends aren’t convinced.

Some think Jesus simply meant for the apostles to preach the forgiveness of sins, and God is the one who will forgive or retain based on how the hearer of the message responds.

Is that a legitimate reading of the text?

Stick around and find out.

Does John 20:23 Simp...

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Redeemed Zoomer vs. Transubstantiation: Does John 6 Prove Him Right?

Catholics are fond of going to John 6 to prove Christ’s Real Presence in the Eucharist.

But Redeemed Zoomer released a video some time back arguing that Christ’s words in John 6 actually prove false the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.

What’s that argument?

And does it work?

Stick around and you’ll find out.

Redeemed Zoomer’s Argument

All right. Let’s begin by trying to get a handle on Redeemed Zoomer’s argument.

He starts with a logical entailment that follows from the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.

Conside...

What is sex actually for? In this episode, I explore whether there’s an objective reality to our sexual powers and why true “sexual sanity” means living in accord with the procreative and unitive meaning built into human sexuality itself. Drawing from philosophy, natural law reasoning, and Catholic thought, I episode challenge modern assumptions about sex, pleasure, love, and human flourishing—offering a deeper vision of why sex is ordered toward both union and new life.

What Catholics Ignore in Their Interpretation of John 6?

Description: Do key verses in John 6 actually undermine the Catholic belief in the Real Presence? In this episode, I take a careful look at common Protestant objections and see whether the details really point to a symbolic reading—or reinforce the Catholic interpretation.

 

Transcript:

Catholics, along with other Christians, argue that Jesus’ body and blood must be present in the Eucharist because in John 6 Jesus commands us to eat his flesh and drink his blood—and that he meant it literally.

 

But some Christians push back a...

You Don’t Believe in Purgatory? Paul Did!

When a Protestant asks, “Where’s purgatory in the Bible?” Catholics who know their apologetics usually point to 1 Corinthians 3:11–15.

But what exactly does Paul say there that makes us think he’s talking about purgatory?

Stick around and you’ll find out.

All right, on to the text. Here’s what Paul writes:

“For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become manifest; for the Day will disclose it, b...

Can Protestants prove verbal inspiration from Scripture alone? In this episode, I examine the biblical case for the Protestant claim that apostolic authorship guarantees verbal inspiration—and argue that the case ultimately falls short without appealing to Sacred Tradition.

f the unborn is a human being from conception, can it still fail to be a human person? In this episode, I go beyond intuition and show—philosophically—why every human being, at every stage of development, is a human person with a right to life.

Transcript:

 

Believers in the Real Presence argue that in John chapter 6, Jesus clearly intends his audience to take him literally when he commands to “eat his flesh” and “drink his blood.” In other words, this isn’t poetic imagery, this isn’t figurative speech, and this isn’t Jesus speaking in metaphors the way he sometimes does elsewhere. The claim is that Jesus really means what he says here.  

 

But some Protestants push back and say, “Hold on—you Catholics (or any believer in the Real Presence for that matter) aren’t being consistent.” After all, in the very same Gospel of John, Jes...