#12466 Why Do We Need the Apostles, Mary, and the Saints? – Why Aren’t You Catholic? - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Why do we need the apostles?” This episode explores the vital role of the apostles in our faith, along with questions about the necessity of praying to Mary and the saints, and how to address concerns about the relationship between Catholics and Jesus. Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on these important topics and more.
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Questions Covered:
- 05:25 – My co-worker asked: Why do we even need the apostles?
- 15:41 – I’m in OCIA but I’m having trouble with Mary and the saints. To be Catholic do we need to pray to Mary and the saints?
- 20:30 – How do I respond to the claim that Catholics focus on religion and don’t have a relationship with Jesus?
- 43:15 – I just returned to the Faith and my son isn’t Catholic. How do I explain F.r James Martin giving the sacraments to two gay men?
- 52:00 – I’m coming into the Church. What does ‘confessing your sins to one another’ mean? My non-Catholic uncle raised the objection?
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| 0:50.3 | my name is Thomas Graf. I am the filling guest today for Sykelet, who will be back with us soon. |
| 0:56.6 | As soon as tomorrow, I believe, haven't been confirmed, but I haven't had that confirmed to me |
| 1:01.1 | personally, but he'll probably be back sooner rather than later. Again, it's why aren't you Catholic |
| 1:06.1 | today? Our guest engaging these questions, or rather these answers for why they aren't Catholic, |
| 1:12.3 | is Joe Heschmire, staff apologist, speaker, author of books like the Eucharist is |
| 1:16.9 | really Jesus, the early church was the Catholic Church, Pope Peter, and several others that |
| 1:22.0 | escape my mind right now because they're not sitting on the table in front of me. Joe, I hope |
| 1:25.6 | you'll forgive me for that, but are you ready to dive into some more? I am. Okay, and before we get to our callers, and thank you, callers, for our patients, for your patients, rather, we've mentioned one shameless popery episode. I kind of raked you over the Coles for it at the beginning of last hour, but people should still check it out anyway. It was about the most and least spiritually healthy diocese in America. |
| 1:49.7 | But the most recent episode of Shamedless Popery was actually, it's related to the question |
| 1:56.7 | today, why aren't you Catholic? |
| 1:58.0 | Because Joe, if I'm right, you were essentially responding to an |
| 2:02.7 | orthodox answer to the question, why not be Catholic? Is that correct? Yeah, I mean, to put the |
| 2:09.0 | episode in a nutshell, you can watch it if you want more, but you'll sometimes hear the objection, |
| 2:15.4 | oh, you know, Eastern Orthodoxy has remained unchanging. You'll even hear people refer to unchanging orthodoxy. And, you'll sometimes hear the objection, oh, you know, Eastern Orthodoxy has remained unchanging. |
| 2:18.2 | You'll even hear people refer to unchanging orthodoxy. |
| 2:21.3 | And look at all these Catholics. |
| 2:22.6 | They're always trying to modernize and change things, et cetera. |
| 2:25.6 | And look, I'm all four not changing things that don't need changing. |
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