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#11925 AMA: Sacraments, Church Fathers, and Mary’s Perfection - Joe Heschmeyer

Catholic Answers Live

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 05:13 – What is the matter in the sacrament of confession? 12:33 – What do you recommend to read for someone who wants an intro to the Church Fathers? 18:10 – How do we make the argument that Enoch is not inspired scripture? 23:56 – If we are not supposed to judge people, how do we judge anything in our lives? 31:20 – Why should Catholics consider Mary perfect? 38:32 – What evidence in the Early Church apart from Paul do you have to justify calling priests father? 48:08 – My husband is not Catholic. How do I convince him of the authority of the magisterium? …

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I am Cy Kelly, your host. We're going to have some fun today. We've got two

0:21.3

great guests, first of all. Second hour, Father Sebastian Walsh will be here. First hour, Joe Heschmeier's here,

0:27.0

but we're holding the phones for non-Catholics. It's an open forum for non-Catholics. And if you're a

0:32.0

non-Cathic who would like to ask a question about the Catholic faith. Maybe you're not a believer at all, and you'd like to ask a

0:38.2

question about, you know, why we believe what we believe, or can we justify what we believe? All that

0:43.6

is fine. Maybe you're a fellow believer, but not Catholic yet, or not, maybe you don't think of it

0:52.4

that way as not Catholic yet. Maybe you think of it as, yeah, the Catholics are wrong about Scripture,

0:58.1

or the Catholics are wrong about the sacraments or something,

1:00.4

and you want to ask a question, or many, many people,

1:03.7

and we've seen more and more of this in recent years,

1:06.4

just have a curiosity and would like to have a question answered.

1:09.3

And we love those conversations. So whatever

1:11.4

is the reason, if you're not a Catholic, we're holding the phones for you, and you can ask

1:15.8

whatever you'd like about the Catholic faith. 888-3187-884. If you're driving along and you're like,

1:23.5

I never even thought of being a Catholic. I don't even know, like, I don't know the first thing

1:26.6

about being Catholic.

1:28.1

What is, what is even Catholic?

1:29.8

You'd be a great caller.

1:31.1

We'd love to talk with you.

1:32.1

8883187, 884.

1:35.5

Or maybe you're very advanced in your theology.

1:37.9

Maybe you're like, you know, you just have a very specific question about justification or, as I said, scripture or something like that.

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