#12676 Is Being Unmarried a Call to Priesthood? Rosary, Purgatory - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Is being unmarried a call to priesthood?” This question opens a discussion on the relationship between personal vocation and divine calling, while also addressing how to explain the Rosary to Protestants and the nature of purgatory. Other topics include principles for giving to the poor and the implications of Vatican II’s teachings on interfaith worship.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:27 – I’m 32 and unmarried. Is this a sign I’m called to priesthood? Married life is still preferable, but I believe whether I’m a priest or married is up to God, not me.
- 08:35 – How do I explain and defend the Rosary to Protestants?
- 18:50 – Why isn’t purgatory instant? Why does it need to exist in general?
- 23:35 – Should we give money to people living on the streets? What’s a good general principle for giving to the poor?
- 37:32 – Can you explain Vatican II’s teaching that we worship the same God as Jews and Muslims? It seems anti-trinitarian to me.
- 49:15 – How do you balance calling out heresy with being kind to your opponent in debate? When are you more direct vs. more charitable?
- 53:30 – Responding to an atheist dilemma. Is Jesus’ sacrifice really a “Sacrifice” at all if he knew he was coming back? How do I respond to this?
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| 0:34.3 | Show so nice, we got to do it twice. |
| 0:35.9 | It's Ask Me Anything with Joe Heshmeyer. |
| 0:38.4 | Joe Heschmeier, our guest, author of books such as the Eucharist is Really Jesus and the early |
| 0:42.9 | church was the Catholic Church, apologist extraordinaire here at Catholic Answers. And of course, |
| 0:49.0 | the host and proprietor of the YouTube channel's Shameless Popery, which you can find. |
| 0:54.7 | Again, just go into YouTube or your favorite podcast app type in Shameless Popery. |
| 0:59.1 | Should be the only result that shows up under that name. |
| 1:02.8 | And Joe, what is coming up next on Shameless Popery? |
| 1:07.3 | Yeah, I've got to sit down with Bread and Cook where we look at one of the really fascinating kind of underused arguments during the Reformation, which is an argument made by St. Francis de Sales about the need for authority. |
| 1:22.3 | You know, St. Paul says, how can men preach unless they're sent? |
| 1:25.6 | And so Francis de Sales unpacks that, and then we unpacked that. |
| 1:29.5 | What does this mean for the reformers who are neither sent directly to by God? They can't show that they've |
| 1:34.9 | been, you know, there are prophets on a mission from God, in other words. And they're not sent by the |
| 1:39.8 | church to go into schism from the church. And so then the question becomes, on what authority then? |
| 1:45.0 | Do they do any of the things they're trying to do? So that's it in a nutshell. |
| 1:50.0 | There's a much longer conversation about that coming out in six days. |
| 1:55.0 | Six days from now. Okay, so watch the space on the YouTube channel for, on Joe's YouTube channel, I should say, for that discussion with our good friend, Braden Cook, a previous guest on this program and a host of his own very good YouTube channel, the Cat of Kuma, and that should be a great discussion with Joe Heschmeyer. Well, we got lots more people on the phones ready to talk to you, Joe, so let over to Raleigh North Carolina where Kevin is listening on Divine Mercy Radio Kevin |
| 2:21.0 | you are on the air with Joe go ahead with your question |
| 2:25.5 | hey good afternoon Joe my name's Kevin as you know and my question has to do |
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