#12729 AMA: Catholicism - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Questions Covered:

4:00 – If the early church was Catholic, then why doesn’t it look anything like the Catholic Church of today?
11:32 – Can Catholics use the title Christotokos alongside theotokos?
17:31 – Question from Non Catholic Family-Member: How does Mary intercede for us if she’s not alive?
23:43 – If the Eucharist is truly Jesus, body and soul, why isn’t it open to everyone, and why are priests allowed to determine who receives it? How do I answer?
31:03 – What is the best argument for Catholicism to a Protestant who accepts the Nicene creed?
36:59 – If someone who received the gospel of Jesus and believed, should the Church immediately baptize him since we have a similar example in the Ethiopian eunuch?
44:11 – What are the theological differences between the Catholics and the Orthodox?
49:33 – Is there a list of infallible teachings that has been published?

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0:32.3	I am Sykelet, your host, ready to have fun because Joe Heschmeyer's here with us both hours.
0:36.9	And it's a drop call. Ask me anything. That is, people called to ask anything, but they didn't stay on the line. Either they didn't stay on the line or we didn't keep them on the line. Something happened that these people didn't get to ask their question on the air. But we looked at the question and we said, I put it in the file because because we like that question. It's interesting. Joe Heschmire, of course, is an apologist here
0:57.6	at Catholic Answers. The author of many wonderful books, including the early church, was the Catholic
1:01.8	Church, the Eucharist is really Jesus, Pope Peter, and a whole bunch of others. Also, he's the
1:08.7	podcaster behind Shameless Poperie, which has taken the world by storm.
1:14.8	People love them, some shameless popery. Joe Heschmire, welcome.
1:19.3	Very grand introduction, of which, once again, I am not worthy, but I'm grateful to be here.
1:24.5	You don't feel like it's taken the world by storm? You don't feel like this?
1:27.3	I mean, there are a lot of things that have taken the world by storm. That's a pretty high bar. I feel like there's, you know, I don't think I'm in that. In media, there's the Avatar movies, and then there's shameless popery. It seems to me that we have those two phenomena that are the bedrocks of us. Yes. I think typically people, when they're ranking, like, the biggest cultural moments in media.
1:46.8	Shameless pulpit.
1:47.3	Yeah. are the bedrocks of us. Yes. I think typically people, when they're ranking, like, the biggest
1:44.5	cultural moments in media. Shameless popery. Yeah.
1:49.0	Occasion of the moon landing footage, you know, just to round it out. Well, if you want to throw
1:52.8	that in there, I don't know if that's quite up to a shameless popery level, but okay,
1:57.2	whatever. They're taking steps. Just one small step.
2:02.6	You're the guy that wrote the early church as the Catholic Church.
2:06.5	You didn't, it's not even like, this is what I like about the early church, this Catholic Church.
2:09.3	It's not even like, yeah, the first 500 years where we can really show the cat, you know, because of course people will be like, yeah, well, of course, the 500 years, you know.
2:18.9	You did the first 200 years, basically, of the cats.
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