#12365 Do Non-Catholics Go to Heaven? Early Church Teachings and More - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Do Non-Catholics Go to Heaven?” This episode explores the complexities of salvation and the teachings of the Early Church. Tune in as we address questions about the necessity of listening to the Early Church Fathers, the implications of a nun’s claim regarding non-Catholics and heaven, and the early Church’s views on the Immaculate Conception and Assumption.

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Questions Covered:

01:00 – Charlie Kirk
15:00 – Do we have to listen to the Early Church Fathers? Are their statements doctrine because they tell us what the early Church believed?
28:30 – My son was told in school by a nun that non-Catholics don’t go to heaven. I’m shocked, is this true?
37:43 – How did the early Church view the immaculate Conception and Assumption?
48:00 – What resources can you point to to help put the Didache in its appropriate cultural context?
04:30 – Would you consider writing a book on justification?
12:26 – What are the earliest Catholic Church buildings and where was the altar located in those churches?
16:25 – Jesus promises to heal in the bible but people deflect and say that healing happens in the next life. What are your thoughts on that? Does God want you to suffer here to get more reward in heaven?
22:34 – What was the early Church’s interpretation of 1 John 5:13?
28:30 – Continued – Jesus promises to heal in the bible but people deflect and say that healing happens in the next life. What are your thoughts on that? Does God want you to suffer here to get more reward in heaven?
44:26 – What are the earliest writings about the mass that we have?
50:38 – Did the writing of the same Shepard Hermas hold the same weight as the Didiache, writing of St. Clemente of Rome and others?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Kathy Gantz was live. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and Joe Heschmeyer is our guest, both ours,
0:21.9	and we're going to have to do some early church history today. News of a very disturbing sort here
0:28.1	in the U.S. today, so if you're listening around the world, you may not be aware that a young man,
0:33.6	Charlie Kirk, who's a political activist out of an and kind of a cultural
0:41.0	commentator or critic as well so he had he played a big media role and it is
0:49.6	true that those of us who are in the media tend to think you know any story
0:53.9	about the media is the most
0:55.0	important story. But I think this is far, far beyond that, because this is an important
0:58.6	political actor in the United States on the conservative side out talking with kids on a college
1:05.7	campus and someone shot and killed him today. And it's horrible news. I'm sorry to share that with those of
1:11.7	you who may not have been aware of that, but a time of, a very odd time of political violence
1:19.6	in the United States. Odd is not the right word, a disturbing time of political violence in the
1:25.6	United States. But I do notice among the young folks, particularly
1:31.0	this Charlie Kirk one, is hurting because I think, and I'll get Joe on here and we'll talk about
1:36.6	it a little bit. It does seem to me that there's an intimacy with people who are available
1:41.7	via social media interact.
1:44.8	It's not just like a TV star or something.
1:47.4	They're interacting constantly.
1:49.4	And so there is the loss of something more than just a kind of a remote figure.
1:56.5	It feels personal to people, and it is personal to people.
2:02.8	Joe Heschmeier, apologist here at Catholic Answers is our guest. Welcome, Joe. Your thoughts maybe. Yeah. I mean, I was struck by it,
2:10.9	obviously like everybody else. It's a horrible thing to see. When you see someone unarmed being
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