Podcast | Karlo Broussard

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April 12, 2025 Petrine Primacy According to Luke’s Gospel
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48 min
April 10, 2025 Did Jesus Appoint Peter as Leader of the Apostles?
Episode 125: Year C
In today’s episode, we highlight several details that are relevant for apologetics in the readings for this upcoming Palm Sunday, Year C. Many of the details, which are found in the Gospel reading for the procession of palms—Luke 19:28-40, and the second reading, taken from Philippians 2:6-11, we’ve already covered in previous episodes. So, our discussion of these details will be brief. The two details that we will mainly focus on come from the Gospel reading, which is taken from Luke 22:14—23:56. The apologetical topics that these details relate to are the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and Peter’s Role as the First Pope.
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22 min
April 08, 2025What’s Your Protestant Challenge? (Hour 2)
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Questions Covered:
00:45 – The Bottom Line on The Natural Law
10:02 – What passages can I use as evidence for purgatory that a protestant will accept, especially 1 Corinthians?
14:32 – Why do Catholics believe there could only be one Church?
30:11 – I’m Protestant moving closer to Catholicism. How does Catholicism view the once and for all Sacrifice of Jesus considering all the things Catholics believe in like sacraments and purgatory?
36:50 – How do I refute the Protestant view that we are all one church?
45:59 – How do Catholics respond to the question: Are you saved?
49:40 – Regarding Baptist baptism. Would their intent to baptize confer grace even if they don’t believe it is salvific?
56 min
April 08, 2025What’s Your Protestant Challenge? (Hour 1)
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Questions Covered:
04:54 – How do we support the use of relics when Protestants see it as idolatry?
14:01 – I’m in OCIA. How are Catholics different from Gnostics and Protestants?
21:29 – The bible tells us not to seek mediums or speak to the deceased. How is it then you can speak to the saints?
34:53 – My protestant sister asked me, why do they call it Good Friday if that was the day Jesus suffered and died? Who gave it that name?
42:03 – Why do Catholics take John 6 literally but John 6:58 sounds more metaphorical?
48:39 – How do we know that Marian apparitions are not taking away attention from Jesus? How do we get the title of Queen of Heaven for her?
56 min
April 04, 2025 Protestant Challenges to Catholic Practices
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48 min
April 03, 2025 Does Righteousness from God Mean We’re Not Actually Made Righteous?
Episode 124: Year C – 5th Sunday of Lent
In today’s episode, we focus on two details in the second reading and Gospel for this upcoming Fifth Sunday of Lent, Year C. The second reading is taken from Philippians 3:8-14, and the detail that has apologetical significance is Paul’s teaching that we receive righteousness that comes from Christ. For many Christians, this is proof that our justification is merely forensic/external and doesn’t involve interior righteousness. The Gospel reading, taken from John 8:1-11, involves the woman caught in adultery. The apologetical detail is Jesus’ ability to avoid the trap set by his enemies. The relevance this detail has is that it comes up in conversations concerning the famous Trilemma argument for Jesus’ divinity.
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17 min
April 01, 2025The Whys of Catholic Belief (Hour 2)
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Questions Covered:
14:40 – Why does the pope not follow Pope Paul VI’s understanding of synods only being made up of Cardinals? Will he allow women priests and homosexual weddings?
20:50 – What does the Church require for a marriage to be valid?
24:36 – Why doesn’t the Church have an articulated position on frozen embryos?
33:14 – Why does the Catholic moral belief prioritize the individual and neighbor over family and kin?
41:34 – Why does the Church believe in patron saints?
46:43 – If Mary was human, how was she sinless?
48:09 – Why aren’t the remains of a cremated loved one allowed to be kept in a home?
51:06 – Why do we believe in the God of the Old Testament?
56 min
April 01, 2025The Whys of Catholic Belief (Hour 1)
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Questions Covered:
07:16 – Why do Catholics follow the doctrines and orders of the pope even if it’s not written in the bible?
19:00 – Why don’t Catholics follow Sola Scriptura?
37:24 – Why is baptism different among Catholics vs Baptists?
47:20 – Why can’t non-Catholics receive communion at a Catholic Church? How would one explain it to them?
56 min
March 28, 2025 Why the Miraculous Manna Proves the Eucharist is More Than a Symbol
Episode 123: Year C – 4th Sunday of Lent
In today’s episode, we focus on three details that are relevant for doing apologetics. The first comes from the first reading, which is taken from Joshua 5:9a, 10-12. The relevant apologetic topic is the Eucharist, and more specifically the belief that the Eucharist is not merely a symbol. The other two details come from the second reading, which is taken from 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, and each has to do with the question of whether justification is merely forensic or a state of interior righteousness. One detail is presented as support for the interior righteousness view, and the other detail is presented against it.
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20 min
March 27, 2025Dropped Calls (Hour 2)
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Questions Covered:
04:15 – I constantly hear that God knows everything that’s going to happen, but in the Old Testament He changed His mind. It sounds like a contradiction.
10:02 – How seriously should I take the ancient church fathers given that they are not sacred scripture?
13:50 – How do I get atheists/agnostics to recognize the bible as a legitimate source?
16:00 – On the assumption that God is all-powerful, merciful, etc. Then why would he make us if he knew we were going to go through all this suffering and anguish?
22:52 – Is heaven empty until Jesus returns? If not, then how can Catholics believe that we all go to sleep and enter heaven until the second coming?
30:59 – In the Our Father, what is the true meaning of” thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven?”
35:14 – How is it possible for Satan to stand in the presence of God in Job if evil can’t withstand the presence of God?
41:00 – Why doesn’t Mary appear more in the Bible for all the reverence we give her?
46:01 – Debating with a Christian who claims Eucharistic miracles are demonic; how do I respond to them?
51:46 – Why should I care if there is a God?
56 min