by Karlo Broussard | Feb 27, 2019 | Audio, Catholic Answers Live, Podcast
Audio Download Questions Covered: 01:59 – I am orthodox because I find it to be more true and rigid than Roman Catholicism. 14:40 – I am not Catholic because the Bible doesn’t lead me there. 29:12 – I disagree with the Church’s position on original...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 22, 2019 | Audio, Catholic Answers Live, Podcast
Audio Download Questions Covered: 18:57 – If you say that faith is a response to reasonable arguments, can it also be true that faith is a response to God’s revelation to us? 24:40 – Were the gospels reliable accounts? Is there historical support for the...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
Critics of the doctrine of hell often argue that it’s unjust, because eternal punishment exceeds the temporal nature of a mortal sin. Why should any sin we commit on earth, in time, require everlasting punishment in hell? It’s not proportional. St. Thomas Aquinas...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 5, 2019 | Articles, Dogmatic Theology/Apologetics
Catholics often appeal to Revelation 5:8 as support for the intercession of the saints: And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and with golden bowls full of incense, which...
by Karlo Broussard | Feb 1, 2019 | Audio, Catholic Answers Live, Podcast
Audio Download Questions Covered: 17:12 – Does purgatory negate the forgiveness of the blood of Jesus? 23:56 – Is Sheol purgatory? 34:23 – Is isegesis of the Bible causing us to find evidence of purgatory in the Bible where it doesn’t exist? 43:31...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Audio, Catholic Answers Live, Podcast
Audio Download Questions Covered: 18:54 – How would a Protestant read the bible and know that Christ calling Peter his rock is him appointing the first Pope? 36:28 – What does the bible say about death? What does the Church believe about death? 51:14...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Philosophical Apologetics
The Catechism teaches that “every spiritual soul is . . . immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final resurrection” (366). But some Christians outside mainstream Protestantism, in particular...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 18, 2019 | Audio, Catholic Answers Focus, Podcast
Cy Kellet, host of Catholic Answers Live, and I did a three-part conversation for Catholic Answers Focus. The three segments are below. Segment 1: Audio Download Segment 2: Audio Download Segment 3: Audio...
by Karlo Broussard | Jan 2, 2019 | Articles, Christian Apologetics
There are many ways to argue for the historical reliability of the Gospels. One compelling approach is to point to what nineteenth-century Anglican priest J.J. Blunt called “undesigned coincidences.” These occur when you have two texts containing pieces of information...
