#12505 How Can There Be No Salvation Outside the Church? Forgiveness and Law - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

“How can there be no salvation outside the Church?” This question opens a discussion on the essential teachings of Catholicism, touching on the simplicity of Jesus’ message of love and compassion, the role of confession in forgiveness, and the challenges faced by those seeking to return to the Church after personal decisions like sterilization.

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Questions Covered:

03:30 – The core message of Jesus is so simple—love and compassion—but the Church overcomplicates it.
05:50 – How can you be forgiven for anything through confession with a priest?
17:10 – How can I come into the church if I went through a sterilization?
24:08 – I struggle with teaching on old and new law
49:51 – How can there be no Salvation outside the Catholic church?

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0:27.2	I am Cy Kelly, your host, getting more and more excited for the big day coming up when we get to sing my favorite Christmas carol.
0:34.3	I do have a favorite Christmas carol.
0:36.0	It's, oh come all youful, written by an English, I was going to say an English Catholic man, but maybe I should say a Catholic Englishman. I don't know. Do you have a favorite Christmas Carol? Well, we're getting close to the time where you can sing it. And a great place to sing. I'm just going to tell you right now. A great place to
0:55.4	sing, oh, come all you faithful, is in a Catholic church. And we'd like you to be in a Catholic
0:59.9	church. That's why Catholic Answers Live exists to help people overcome obstacles that are keeping
1:05.4	them out of the Catholic Church. And we'd like to help you with that. Whether you have a challenging
1:10.7	call or just a curious call, we're going to ask you with that. Whether you have a challenging call or just a curious
1:12.4	call, we're going to ask you today, why aren't you Catholic? If you're not a Catholic, we're holding all
1:16.1	the phones for you. 8883187-884, triple-8-384. Why aren't you Catholic today? Joe Heschmeier,
1:26.3	our guest. Joe Heschmire, of course,
1:28.3	a wonderful, wonderful apologists here at Catholic Answers. He was a wonderful
1:32.2	apologist before he got here to Catholic Answers. He's the author of these books, Pope Peter,
1:37.5	the Eucharist is really Jesus, the early church was the Catholic Church, and a bunch of other
1:41.1	books. He's the guy behind shameless popery. Joe Heschmeier,
1:46.3	happy Advent. Thank you. Speaking of good Advent hymns, I know you're talking about Christmas
1:51.5	ones, but it is still Advent. We're entering the period called the Oantophons. Oh, yeah.
1:57.7	So for those who don't know, from December 17th the 23rd, at Vespers, so the evening
2:03.7	prayer, so right now for most of you listening, it's traditional to pray at, like, during the
2:10.4	Vespers, one of these prayers directed towards Jesus for the coming of Christ. For today, it's O Sapiensia or O Wisdom.
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