#12276 Does Scripture Support Male-Only Authority? A Catholic Response - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

A caller shares that his coworker refuses to take direction from a female supervisor, citing Scripture as justification. In this episode, Catholic apologists respond with clarity on what the Church teaches about gender roles, authority, and human dignity. Discover how Catholic teaching affirms the equal dignity of men and women while refuting misuse of Scripture to justify sexism.

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Questions Covered:

02:35 – The Church recently rolled out the final document on the Synod on Synodality and I cannot intellectually accept it. Am I essentially no longer Catholic?
12:16 – Why is marriage between a man and a woman?
18:08 – At what point did Jesus declare that all animals are clean to eat?
24:49 – What is the Catholic stance on eugenics?
32:45 – My supervisor said he would refuse to submit to his supervisor because she is a woman. He used scripture to justify this. How do we approach this as Catholics?
42:41 – Regarding the year of Jubilee, when you visit 7 churches, do you receive 1 indulgence or an indulgence for every church you visit?

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0:37.7	Day or month?
0:39.2	Year.
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0:41.5	2025.
0:42.5	Gordon Hayward Year here at Catholic Answers.
0:44.0	Everybody else is treating it as the Jubilee Year, but we're treating it as Gordon
0:47.9	Hayward Year here.
0:49.0	8883187-884 is the number, but I have to just read this.
0:53.1	Joe spoke on the opening night of the 2024 annual apologetics conference,
0:57.1	learned from me the parable sermons and conversations of Jesus of Jesus Christ.
1:01.0	Scott Hahn was there, Kimberly Hahn was there, Father Sebastian Walsh was there,
1:04.5	Billy Junker, and this is, here's the game that we're going to play today.
1:09.3	We want to give away an audible version of Joe's bestseller Pope Peter.
1:14.5	And so we have to ask you, what was unusual about Joe's appearance that night?
1:18.8	So if you're on the line and folks on the line are usually listening to the show, sometimes doing other things.
1:24.7	But if you're on the line and you're listening, the first one who says what was
1:28.9	exceptional about Joe's appearance at last year's annual apologetics conference where he gave the opening talk,
1:37.1	you will win the audio version of Pope Peter. Did you do the audio yourself, Joe?
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