#12669 AMA: Catholicism - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered:

03:18 – What is Ecumenism?
06:38 – Why did Mary have to be immaculately conceived?
14:45 – Does Galatians 1:8 talk about the apostles failing to pass on the gospel?
17:45 – Why is there a separation of church and state?
25:06 – Is sacramental marriage possible without a civil marriage?
29:07 – How do I discern the papacy claims on both the Catholic and Orthodox sides?
44:33 – What are the last two declared infallible doctrines of the Catholic Church?
46:06 – Would Christotokos be more correct than Theotokos?
50:26 – Why do people think the Church was started in the 300s?

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello and welcome to Catholic Answers live. I'm Sykelet, your host, Joe Heschmeyer, our guests for both hours a day. So it's going to be a fun one.
0:40.8	The very popular Joe Heschmire is what I should say. The internet personality, Joe Heshmeyer,
0:47.4	from Shameless Popery, which we just hear so many people say how important shameless popery is to them. So you should check
0:56.7	it out. But you know what? Another option for you is just hang on for two hours because we've got
1:01.7	Joe right here for the next two hours. Joe Heschmire, author, apologist and proprietor of shameless
1:07.9	popery. Welcome. It's good to be here. I think people are going to worry that you've gone like fever delusional because you were so kind to me, but we'll see. I know. It does seem it can't last. Like, there's no way it can last. We're going to be together two hours. I cannot. I don't think I've ever been nice to you for two straight hours in all the time
1:29.4	that I've known you. So yeah, it can't last. So I, maybe I am a little fever, delusional.
1:36.0	All right. Tell them what you do. It's shameless popery. People should know what's going on
1:39.6	shameless popery because I, Joe, really, I'm not trying to be nice to you. I'm really not. But it's
1:45.2	extraordinary to me how many people have, this has become their go-to thing. And it's, it's
1:51.5	not like you've been doing it for a thousand years, but it's, it's become their go-to place.
1:57.2	Yeah, I'm really honored by it. So the goal of shameless popery, in many ways, just the goal of Catholic answers, is to answer objections people might have to Catholicism and to try to show the truth, the goodness, and the beauty of Catholicism to people who are curious.
2:14.4	And that leaves a lot of ground.
2:16.4	That means there's a lot of topics that we can
2:18.6	cover. And it's a lot of fun to get to do it. You can check it out on Joe's, on the YouTube
2:25.0	channel. You can check it out wherever you get your podcasts or just type in shameless popery to your
2:30.7	machine and you will come to it. The number's 888.
2:34.3	No, I can't give out the number.
2:35.6	Look at that.
2:36.0	Look at it.
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