#12546 Why Can’t Women Be Priests? Eastern Rite, Pope, and Magisterium - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 15 January 2026
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Summary
“Can women be priests?” This question opens a discussion on the roles of gender within the Church, touching on the norms that allow married priests in the Eastern Rite but not in the Latin Rite. Other topics include whether the Pope could teach ex cathedra without consulting the Magisterium and advice for fostering a young boy’s appreciation for the Mass.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:33 – Can you clarify the norms that dictate that men can be married priests in the Eastern right Catholic Church but not latin right?
- 12:14 – Would the Pope ever teach ex cathedra without consulting with the magisterium?
- 17:03 – What advice would you give a young father of a boy so he has an appreciation for the Mass?
- 29:45 – Cy says all kids need is Mr. Rogers
- 30:33 – Does dispensationalism have a different understanding of what the Gospel is and what a Christian is?
- 40:38 – Why can’t women be priests?
- 47:30 – Are there other Apostolic Churches other than the Coptic, Orthodox and Catholic?
- 51:52 – Why does the conversation turn to whether a Pope is liberal or conservative, shouldn’t the conversation be, is he orthodox?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. Thanks for being here with us for hour two. We're going to do just what we did. Hour 1. Joe Heschmire remains our guests, and our topic remains the popes, the bishops, the priests, the deacons, |
| 0:42.8 | questions about the hierarchy. We have lots of Christian brothers and sisters who don't accept |
| 0:47.2 | the hierarchy. You are welcome to call, and we can talk about that. I'm sure we would enjoy that |
| 0:52.0 | conversation very much. But there are many Catholics |
| 0:54.8 | who have questions about the hierarchical nature of the church. 8883187-884 is the number. Joe Heschmeier, |
| 1:04.1 | a very fine apologist, his podcast and a YouTube channel called Shameless Pobri, because he is, in fact, a shameless papist. |
| 1:13.4 | He's also the author of lots of books. |
| 1:15.1 | I mentioned three of them last hour. |
| 1:17.0 | It's just because they're on the desk with me here. |
| 1:18.8 | The Eucharist is really Jesus, how Christ's body and blood are the key to everything, we believe. |
| 1:25.1 | The early church was the Catholic Church, the Catholic Witness of the Fathers |
| 1:29.0 | in Christianity's first two centuries, and Pope Peter, defending the church's most distinctive |
| 1:35.4 | doctrine in a time of crisis. He's author of a whole bunch of other books as well. If you have |
| 1:40.2 | questions about popes, bishops, priests, deacons, 888, 3187, 884. I'm even going to throwing cardinals. I'm going to go crazy. I'm going to, if you got a cardinal question, throw, you can ask that one, too. Because now people will go, oh, well, that falls under the category of bishops. No, it doesn't. You can be a cardinal without being a bishop. I bet there's people that |
| 2:01.2 | didn't know that. I might be the only Catholic. As a matter of fact, I possibly just made that up. That's correct, right, Joe? You can be a cardinal without being a bishop. You can. In fact, we recently had one in our lifetimes. Yeah, Dulles. It wasn't... Yeah, every Cardinal Dulles. Yeah. All right, let's go to Tiffany in Cleveland, Ohio, listening on Sirius, EWTN on Channel 130, Sirius XM satellite radio. |
| 2:28.0 | Hello, Cleveland. |
| 2:29.3 | How are you doing, Tiffany? |
| 2:31.3 | I'm doing great. |
| 2:32.5 | Thanks for taking my question. |
| 2:33.8 | So I've recently become interested in |
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