#12415 How To Respond to “Catholics Oppose Science” - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How To Respond to ‘Catholics Oppose Science'” This episode tackles the perception that the Catholic Church opposes progress, addressing historical issues like Galileo and monarchies.
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Questions Covered:
- 03:59 – What do you say to the person who says they are not Catholic because the Catholic Church has always opposed progress and they give you a smorgasbord of reasons? Galileo, Jews in Ghettos, siding with Kings and Queens in the age of democracy, not letting women be priests, etc…
- 11:00 – I’m going to a protestant apologetics conference this Friday. What questions should I ask Wes Huff while I’m there?
- 17:23 – I’m Protestant. If two Catholics fall away from the Church and get married outside the Catholic Church, are they considered fornicators?
- 41:13 – My husband is a Baptist. Would 2 Peter 2:4 help with helping explain losing one’s salvation?
- 51:55 – Doesn’t it seem like Protestants almost view baptism like confirmation?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers Live. |
| 0:17.0 | I am Cy Kellett, your host. |
| 0:20.0 | Very happy to be here with you on this Joe Day, Wednesday afternoon. |
| 0:25.1 | Joe Heschmire here for both hours. I bet he doesn't know the topic, but he's going to be, |
| 0:28.6 | just if you're watching, wait for the look of shock on his face when I tell him the topic for both |
| 0:33.3 | hours today. Joe Heschmire, of course, very fine, apologist, author of wonderful books, |
| 0:37.7 | including the early church, was the Catholic Church, the Eucharist is really Jesus, |
| 0:42.4 | and today, why aren't you Catholic? That is our topic, if you're not a Catholic. Why aren't |
| 0:48.0 | you Catholic? I'm stunned. I'm in stunned silence. Did you know that was the topic for today? |
| 0:54.7 | I did not. You had not a clue. I was going to be surprised. And you narrowed it down by your |
| 1:00.3 | irony there to like three options. I still didn't know what one. Now, do you think that you |
| 1:06.5 | didn't know the topic for today's show because we didn't tell you or because you just don't care? I mean, I guess there are other options. Is this in either or could this be a both? I know I care about the conversation. No, I know you care about the show, but you're going to do whatever we asked you to. And if somebody calls in with a different question, I'm not going to be like, well, no, they thought it was going to be a different kind of show today. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:43.6 | Like, whenever the call screeners decide, if they want to do all cat-related shows, they just thought it was like cataholic answers, then, you know, we'll do that. All right, please, no cat questions. Joe, Joe is being hyperbolic. and even if he's not being hyperbolic, |
| 1:45.4 | I'm going to claim he's being hyperbolic and ask you not to call with your cat questions. |
| 1:47.5 | 8883187-884, 3184, 3187-884. If you're not a Catholic, we'd like to ask you a question. Why aren't you a Catholic? It's a good time to ask this question, too, because it's the time of year when many people, some have already started. Many are just starting now. Some will start in a few weeks |
| 2:05.6 | with what we call the O-C-I-A or sometimes the R-C-I-A. That's the, it's kind of what you might |
| 2:12.2 | call the process for helping people into the Catholic Church that happens at the parish level in general. |
| 2:18.1 | You can you, you could sometimes do it at the Newman Center at your college or at other, |
| 2:23.3 | maybe at a monastery or a convent, but usually it happens in the parish. |
| 2:27.3 | So if you have, if you're thinking, why aren't I a Catholic? |
| 2:30.8 | This would be a good time to find out what, what the out which day they're meeting over at your parish. |
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