#12371 How Do I Learn About Catholicism? – Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How Do I Learn About Catholicism?” This episode explores the significance of Mary in Catholic teaching and the papacy, addressing questions like why some reject Catholicism due to the papacy, how non-Catholics can begin their journey of faith, and where to find biblical support for Mary’s perpetual virginity.
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Questions Covered:
- 08:17 – My friend is not Catholic because popes have been wicked or corrupt.
- 14:16 – I am not a Catholic but want to learn more. How do I go about doing this?
- 19:34 – Where can I find Mary’s perpetual virginity in the Bible? I am a lapsed Catholic.
- 34:50 – Does Joseph have a body and soul in Heaven?
- 37:40 – I’m not sure if I’m Catholic; if I have a godfather, does that mean that I am?
- 43:04 – To play Devil’s advocate, could all the secular accounts of Jesus be mentions of Christian texts and not Christ himself?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Kathy Gantz was live. I am Cy Kelly's your host. |
| 0:18.7 | Joe Heschmars, our guest, both hours. 8883-187-884 is the number. |
| 0:25.5 | And Joe Heschmire, well, first of all, let me, just in case you are one of the four people |
| 0:30.1 | who doesn't yet know about Joe Heshmeyer. Shameless Popri is his podcast and YouTube channel, |
| 0:36.7 | and it's super popular, and you should check it out. Shamelessjo.com or just type in Shameless Popery is his podcast and YouTube channel, and it's super popular, and you should check it out. |
| 0:39.2 | Shamelessjo.com or just type in Shameless Popery. |
| 0:41.8 | No one else is doing anything called Shameless Popery. |
| 0:43.9 | He's the only one you will find him. |
| 0:45.7 | And it's not Popery. |
| 0:46.8 | It's Popery. |
| 0:47.7 | Like Joe is a shameless, shameless papist. |
| 0:51.5 | Also, the author of a whole bunch of great books and some others. And Joe Ashbyar, welcome. |
| 1:00.3 | It's good to talk to you, I suppose. I guess so. Well, a couple things. First of all, I was delighted |
| 1:05.4 | to see you in Salt Lake City a few days ago. Yeah, it was fun doing the show in person. |
| 1:11.8 | It's going to be a heavy quotation marks around live, because in one sense, it was the most live show we've ever done. We were right there taking people's questions, but on the other hand, it was also pre-recorded. So I don't know when that one's coming out, but. I don't think we know. No, I don't even know if we've gotten the, do we have a recording yet? |
| 1:27.2 | No, they've got to give us the recording. |
| 1:28.6 | We're not the recording yet. |
| 1:29.8 | We're at the Sikh conference. |
| 1:31.2 | Seek Conference, |
| 1:31.2 | a wonderful conference put on by the Fellowship of Catholic University students, and they all come. |
| 1:39.2 | All the Catholic University students come. They were all there. I think I did not do a precise |
| 1:43.7 | headcount, but it seemed like to me it was one billion young Catholics. |
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