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#12670 AMA: Catholicism - Joe Heschmeyer

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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πŸ—“οΈ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered:

  • 05:35 – Why are the 10 Commandments different for Catholics and Protestants?
  • 14:46 – Why does the Church take the transubstantiation view over the consubstantiation view?
  • 20:52 – How does the Church balance orthodoxy and heterodoxy with everything going on?
  • 25:26 – Is it possible for a laicized priest to ever be reinstated?
  • 29:00 – Under what circumstances does a priest allow a non-Catholic to participate in the Eucharist?
  • 36:03 – Is there any room in Catholicism for being a millenialist?
  • 42:10 – Who took over after Peter?
  • 51:37 – Do I really need to seek out indulgences?

Transcript

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0:33.1

I'm Cy Kellett, your host, Joe Heschmeyer, our guests for another hour of drop calls. And, boy, you got through a lot. That first hour. I'm going to, you did a really good job, Joe. I'm trying to make Joe uncomfortable by being really nice to him today. He does not know what to do with that. I think he's going to ask me for money over the break. I probably will. Yeah. Oh, by the way, I'm going to need a loan, Joe.

0:57.2

You know, did it hurt your feelings when I told you that I didn't care if we flew on the same plane back from Europe together? Do you remember when this happened?

1:06.4

I didn't know this happened. No, because I did tell you about it, but I think you might have forgotten about it. But Jen, who is a lovely person, is like, look, I can arrange it. Like, if you wait two hours and Joe waits, you know, an hour and a half, I can get you guys on the same plane back from Europe. And I was like, don't want to be on the same plane with Joe. She's like, no, no, I can make, I could do it.

1:28.0

I was like, I don't care.

1:29.1

I don't want to be in the same.

1:30.0

Because we're going to be in Europe together for two weeks on this pilgrimage. Yes. And then I was like, like, what are we going to do? You're going to do all this work to get us on the same plane. and then we're going to actively ignore each other for 10 hours while we fly back to the United States.

1:45.1

I have to hurt your feelings.

1:46.1

Not at all.

1:47.1

Okay. plane and then we're going to actively ignore each other for 10 hours while we fly back to the

1:44.3

United States.

1:45.1

Did that hurt your feelings?

1:46.1

Not at all.

1:47.6

I recently was on a, so my mother-in-law was just in town and she watched our three kids so

1:55.4

that my wife and I could go on a trip together that was over Valentine's Day weekend.

1:59.5

I was giving a talk at a Chesterton

2:01.3

conference gala up in the suburbs of Detroit. Oh, no, in Detroit. And it was actually, it was

2:07.9

blessed. And we got to go to an area, like in the Polish area in Hamtramck, where John Paul

2:15.5

the second had been. And we got to go to the shrine of Blessed Saladus Casey

2:19.2

but on the flight back

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