#12226 Can Receive Communion at Orthodox Churches, but Not Anglican Ones? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Orthodox vs. Anglican communion, pro-life ethics, voting dilemmas, spiritual encounters, and New Testament objections—Catholic answers to tough questions.

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Questions Covered:

00:15 – Content creator highlight: The Religious Hippie
19:54 – Why would we be able to receive communion in some circumstances at an Orthodox church but not at an Anglican Church?
28:50 – If we are not allowed to choose between the life of the mother vs the baby in the pro-life debate, why do some Catholic circles say when you do have to decide, the life of the mother supersedes the life of the baby?
33:41 – Hypothetical: If you were voting between 2 candidates, one was causing physical harm and the other spiritual harm, how should one vote?
39:42 – How do we respond to the secular arguments against the New Testament?
45:32 – What does the Church have to say if we sense a family member who has passed away is trying to reach out to us?
49:24 – How do I help guide my Catholic aunt who goes to a Lutheran church and believes she’s receiving the real presence?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. I imagine some people went and looked up the Bob Hope zombie joke and now half of them are mad at me and the other half are not mad at me, and I'm not going to tell you why.
0:41.3	Every now and then, we've had these wonderful occasions to meet young people who are doing
0:46.4	magnificent things online in defending the Catholic Church and explaining Catholic teaching
0:51.0	and attracting people to the Catholic faith.
0:53.5	They're not angry, they're not bitter,
0:55.8	they're just joyful, wonderful Catholics. And mostly we find out about them because Edgar tells us,
1:03.0	you really should know this person, because Edgar is young and joyful himself. He's about to be,
1:08.6	by the way, this is a total discursus, but he's about to be very joyful
1:12.5	because baby number one is going to be here within hours.
1:18.0	We don't know how long, but within hours.
1:21.2	Actually, everything that will happen is within hours.
1:24.0	Because you can divide all time by hours.
1:26.1	But I assume a relatively short span of time we will have a baby and we'll find out about
1:32.9	that.
1:33.4	Can I interject just quickly and say, the end of the show will not be in hours?
1:40.5	I don't know what that means.
1:41.7	It's going to be in one hour.
1:43.5	It's like the only unit you can't measure in the plural hours.
1:46.7	That's a very good point, Joe.
1:48.3	And I'm very glad you interrupted my introduction of our guests.
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