#12416 Responding to Attacks on the Papacy – Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 16 October 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Responding to Attacks on the Papacy” This episode explores the role of the pope in the Catholic Church, addressing questions like the implications of priest celibacy in light of 1 Timothy 3 and the reasoning behind Timothy’s circumcision by Paul. Additionally, we delve into the Church’s stance on alcohol and its interpretation of love in Romans.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:34 – I’m not Catholic because I don’t believe that the pope holds Peter’s office.
- 21:06 – What are your thoughts on priest celibacy in light of 1 Tim. 3?
- 30:24 – If Paul was sent to the Gentile, why did he have Timothy circumcised?
- 33:07 – Why is alcohol permitted in the Catholic Church?
- 43:55 – How do Catholics understand Paul in Romans saying love is the fulfillment of the law? Is Paul solely referring to Jewish customs?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back. Catholic Answers Live. If you're not a Catholic, well, first of all, thanks for listening to a show called Catholic Answers Live. If you're not a Catholic, I'm Cy Kellett, your host. But also, there's an |
| 0:24.3 | opportunity for you to call and tell us why you're Catholic. We love to have those conversations. We're grateful when people call. And before I went to the break, I said, hang on the line. Joe's going to be here when we come back and half the people on the lines decided nope I'm not going to do that I'm |
| 0:36.9 | not going to follow that instruction so that means we got three lines open right now, 8883-1-8-7-884. If you're not a Catholic, and you'd like to tell us why you're, oh, you are not a Catholic, maybe you don't believe in God, maybe you don't believe Jesus is God, maybe you just don't believe one of the other teachings of the Catholic Church. |
| 0:56.3 | Whatever it is, or maybe you just don't like Catholic, whatever. If you want to share your reason, |
| 1:01.4 | we would like to have the conversation. 8883187-884. Joe Heschmire, author of many, many |
| 1:08.3 | wonderful books, including Pope Peter. |
| 1:12.2 | And lots of people are, that might be their objection, is popes and such. |
| 1:19.5 | Is that a category? |
| 1:20.3 | That sounds like a Jeopardy category. |
| 1:22.6 | Popes and Such. |
| 1:23.2 | I was thinking it sounded like a clothing store. |
| 1:26.2 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:26.7 | I don't know, like Bedbeth and Beyond, Popes and such. |
| 1:28.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:29.5 | Popes and notions. |
| 1:31.0 | That would be a... |
| 1:32.3 | Joe himself, however, I should tell you, is a shameless papist. |
| 1:38.1 | He, uh, his, um, his YouTube channel and his podcast, shameless popery, because he is himself a shameless papist. |
| 1:47.2 | Check it out. |
| 1:47.9 | A lot of people have, and that's a lot of happy customers. |
| 1:51.1 | They're happy that they did check it out. |
| 1:52.9 | You want a reasonable conversation about really profound things, even deep profound mysteries |
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