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#12035 AMA: Mary’s Titles, Spiritual Attack, and Baptism in Jesus’ Time - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered: 07:00 – What is the Catholic perspective on cynicism and anger? 15:38 – Why do y’all have so many titles for Mary? 21:45 – In Leviticus 10 two dudes are killed for doing something liturgically wrong, but later two other dudes did something liturgically wrong but were not killed. What’s the deal with that? 31:58 – How do I deal with spiritual attack without being superstitious? 41:37 – I want to go to a Protestant Bible study to promote the Catholic faith? Is it a problem for me to pray with them? I heard something like if I pray with them I might be excommunicated. 47:10 – Do I need to go to confession for rooting for Ohio State over Notre Dame? 50:12 – We have a Christian understanding of baptism, but what was the understanding of baptism by the Jews at the time of Jesus’ baptism? …

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Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I am Cy Kellett, your host. Two hours of Ask Me Anything with Joe Heschmeier today. So, dial now.

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If you'd like to ask Joe, your question, 8883187-884. If you want to know anything about the Catholic

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faith, whether you are Catholic or not, you got a question about Jesus, you got a question about the Bible,

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you got a question about, oh, I don't know, the moral life. Maybe you want to know, what's an obscure?

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I would try to come up with something obscure, and I'd cross myself up.

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All right, I got nothing.

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If you don't know why-

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You know, crossing yourself is obscure.

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Why do we cross ourselves this way instead of that way?

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That is true.

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Why do we do it as the Orthodox say, and as the Eastern right Catholics say, backwards?

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Why do Catholics make the sign of the cross backwards?

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8883187-884, 3184, 3187-884.

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We'd love to talk with you.

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And I really do want to especially invite those who are not Catholic.

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You might be like, oh, the Catholics don't want to talk to me.

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But yeah, we do. You make our show great, and so we'll be really nice to you if you call,

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and we'll have a great conversation. 888-3187-884. Joe Heschmire, in addition to being an

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apologist here at Catholic Answers, is an author of many, many fine books, three of which I am holding in my hand. The early church

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was the Catholic Church, Pope Peter, the Eucharist is really Jesus, lots of others. And he's

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