Podcast | Karlo Broussard

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June 28, 2024 Challenges to Peter as the First Pope
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46 min
June 28, 2024 Did God Make Death?
Episode 84: Year B – 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In this episode, we focus on three details for this upcoming Sunday Mass Readings. Two of the details come from the first reading, taken from Wisdom 1:13-15, 2:23-24, and both have to do with theological questions concerning death—God’s causal relation to it, and its relation to the fall of Adam. The third detail is Jesus’ raising of Jairus’ daughter in the Gospel reading, taken from Mark 5:21-24, 35b-43, which is the shorter version that leaves out the story of the hemorrhaging woman. The apologetical topic is the historicity of the story itself, which provides rational grounds for someone to believe Jesus’ claims to be divine.
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23 min
June 27, 2024Life After Death: Heaven, Hell, & Purgatory (Part II)
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Questions Covered:
05:42 – How is it that we can’t keep cremated remains on the mantle but we can keep relics of saints?
13:10 – Do most Catholics believe that most people go to hell or most people go to purgatory?
19:00 – After purification in purgatory, do you think we’d even have the ability to think the same kind of thoughts we have here on Earth?
22:18 – In the story of the rich man and Lazarus, is the Rich man in purgatory or hell?
37:02 – Can the souls in purgatory pray for themselves?
41:54 – What do people do in Heaven? Also, what is this whole new heaven and new earth thing all about?
46:45 – Did Vatican II change the Catholic understanding of baptismal ecclesiology? My pre-conciliar catechism says we are born as soldiers of Christ, and priests are the officers. I like that. But now it feels like priests and laity are more like colleagues.
55 min
June 27, 2024Life After Death: Heaven, Hell, & Purgatory (Part I)
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Questions Covered:
12:46 – In Purgatory, are human memories saved in the soul or in the body?
19:16 – I’m Protestant and it seems to me that scripture indicates that upon death one immediately either goes to Heaven or Hell. Is that not the Catholic view?
30:32 – How did people come up with the idea of Universalism when it seems clear in scripture that people will be lost?
39:52 – I want to pray for people in purgatory, but there’s so many people I know who have died, some from long ago. How do I know who I should be praying for, or if that person is even still in purgatory?
43:53 – My Protestant friend thinks purgatory is very legalistic or transactional, in that mortal sins send you to hell but venial sins only to purgatory. How can I answer him?
55 min
June 20, 2024 Why People Reject Religion (Part II)
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46 min
June 20, 2024 Jesus’ Divine Authority Over Demons
Episode 83: Year B – 12th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In this episode of the Sunday Catholic Word, we focus on three details from the second reading and Gospel reading that are relevant for doing apologetics. The detail in the second reading, taken from 2 Corinthians 5:14-17, is Paul’s teaching that in Christ we are a new creation. The topic that comes to fore here is the nature of justification as intrinsic righteousness. One of the details in the Gospel reading, taken from Mark 4:35-41, is Mark’s report of Jesus calming the winds and the sea. As we will see, when read in light of the Old Testament backdrop, this detail provides evidence of Jesus’ divinity. The other detail is Jesus’ “rebuke” of the winds, which, when read in the Greek, might suggest demonic forces were behind the raging winds and Jesus rebukes such forces, thereby revealing his authority over demons.
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June 18, 2024Ask Me Anything: Catholicism
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Questions Covered:
04:15 – Is it ok for me to attend a Bar Mitzvah?
06:10 – How do we know for sure that it was Samuel that the witch of Endor contacted?
12:19 – You can lose your salvation but what must happen for that to occur?
19:45 – Is the entire mass a sacrifice or just the Eucharist? Is the profession of faith essential?
24:20 – Do we as Catholics fall under any of the following categories; provisionist, open theists, Arminian? I know Calvinists use these categories.
34:41 – If God knows the future, then why does he regret making humans Gen 6:6?
44:17 – In the bible it says things like ‘ I chose you and you’re a chosen race. Why are some people chosen?
48:41 – Could you explain how we know that the saints can hear us, and why having statues doesn’t mean we worship them?
52:52 – What is the Beatific Vision?
55 min
June 13, 2024 Paul’s Purgatory Problem
Episode 82: Year B – 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time
In this episode of the Sunday Catholic Word, we focus on three details in all, two of the three coming from the second reading, taken from 2 Corinthians 5:6-10. The relevant apologetical topics are Purgatory and the causal effect that our good works have on receiving eternal life at judgment. The third detail, found in the Gospel reading Mark 4:26-34, relates to the topic of Sacred Tradition.
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18 min
June 13, 2024 Why People Reject Religion
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46 min
June 10, 2024Ask Me Anything: Catholicism (Part II)
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Questions Covered:
04:00 – Did the people who were resurrected after Jesus’ resurrection in Matthew 27:53 go to heaven?
11:12 – How do I respond to the claim that Jesus was crucified on a Wednesday? See: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/crucifixion-wednesday See my article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/the-timing-of-jesus-death
15:38 – It sounds like Catholics disagree with Christ’s teaching of eternal security in John 5:24. Can we still perish even if we believe in Christ? See article: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/dont-take-eternal-life-for-granted
19:48 – Why is the Catholic Church always in the defensive position when it comes to apologetics?
24:23 – Why do we have to explain anything out of our faith? Why do we concentrate so much on defending the faith?
30:20 – Can the terms priest and pastor be used interchangeably?
34:28 – I heard a protestant say that Mt 12:32 has nothing to do with purgatory because there’s no forgiveness after we’re dead. How do I respond?
42:24 – Why did Mary say “My God and My Savior” in Luke?
46:49 – Is a crucifix a graven image that the bible condemns?
55 min