#12455 Why Does It Take So Long To Become Catholic? Free Will and LGBT Issues - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“Why does it take so long to become Catholic?” This episode explores the journey of faith and the various factors involved in conversion. Additionally, we address concerns about LGBT issues in the context of confirmation, the Church’s interpretation of the Ten Commandments, and the relationship between God’s omniscience and human free will.

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Questions Covered:

05:54 – Why does it take so long to become Catholic?
14:45 – I’m a catechist. My catechumens are scandalized. What does the Church teach on LGBT men getting confirmed with his “husband” as his sponsor? What does the Church teach on this?
20:30 – I’m Baptist and reading CCC. Why does the Church rearrange or redo the 10 commandments?
38:00 – My brother isn’t Catholic. If God is omniscient, how do we have free will?
45:55 – I don’t recognize the authority of the Pope?

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0:35.1	Joe Heschmire, our guest, if you're not a Catholic, start dialing now. If you're not a Catholic and you're willing to tell us why you're not Catholic, we just want to talk to you. Dial now, we want to get to you as quick as we can. 8883187884. Look, don't even think about it. Don't be like, I don't know. They don't really want to talk to not yet. Don't just pick up the phone and call. If you're not a Catholic, and we're going to pick up the phone,
1:14.9	and this is what we're going to say, hey, why aren't you Catholic? And you could tell us, 8883187, 884. That does mean that our Catholic listeners will have to hold off, which is sometimes difficult because Joe Heschmeyer, our guest, apologist, author, speaker, podcaster.
1:17.1	Are you familiar with the call?
1:21.6	Actually, I am Catholic, but have you ever— I have gotten a couple of those.
1:23.6	It is true.
1:24.2	Yeah.
1:24.9	So, yeah, people give themselves permission to get in here. But if you're
1:29.2	not a Catholic and you're willing to talk to us about it, we are Catholics. As a matter of
1:33.3	Joe, he calls himself a papist. That's how Catholic he is. He's a shameless papist. His podcast is
1:40.0	shameless popery. Again, the number 8883-187-884. Why are you, you appear risible to me when I say
1:49.0	that you're a papist? Why is that? Yeah, I mean, it gives the whole thing a little bit tongue-in-cheek.
1:53.4	Look, for non-Catholics who maybe don't understand this, let me just give you a little clue.
1:59.3	Maybe you're somebody who wants to disprove what you think
2:02.4	are the errors, the contradictions of the Catholic Church. You out yourself in a few ways.
2:10.1	And I'm going to tell them to you. Maybe I shouldn't. Maybe I should just let you continue to do this for our sake.
2:15.0	But if you use terms like Roman Catholic and you really hit the Roman part, but if you use terms like roman catholic and you really hit the roman part
2:20.3	or if you say terms like romanist or papist those are big clues particularly the last two of those three
2:29.1	those are big clues to any catholic listening like oh this is not a person to be taken seriously.
2:35.1	Like, this person wants to do more like name calling than to rationally and charitably search for the truth.
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