#12730 AMA: Catholicism - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Questions Covered:
- 02:20 – How culpable are people of other religions when it comes to not following Jesus?
- 09:42 – How did the Church select the popes before conclaves? When did it fall on the shoulders of the college of cardinals?
- 13:50 – Why do we have the books in the bible that we do? Why did they remove those books in the reformation?
- 21:57 – Which Church Father writings about Mary would you recommend for a Protestant?
- 23:47 – Why do Catholics believe that both species contain the body, blood, soul and divinity if the consecration separates them?
- 29:00 – If the Jews couldn’t kill Jesus, forcing them to send Jesus to be crucified, then why did they stone people?
- 41:07 – How is it that the Orthodox Church is considered in schism, but the Anglican Church is not? Seems like they have similar issues with unity with the Catholic Church.
- 48:42 – Do we know when St. Joseph died? Is there anything in the bible?
- 49:23 – On what level of reality does the eucharist change?
- 50:32 – What do you think are the weirdest things that Jesus taught?
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back to Catholic Answers live. Joe Heschmire, our guest, |
| 0:35.3 | this hour, as it was last hour. |
| 0:38.9 | A whole bunch of drop calls. |
| 0:43.9 | We get, well, I was going to say we get a lot of drop calls, but that's not how that actually works. |
| 0:47.3 | We get a lot of calls, and then somebody pushes the wrong button. |
| 0:50.3 | And we never talk about who pushed the wrong button around here. |
| 0:52.1 | That is not important information. |
| 0:59.1 | Joe Hesmire, apologists, extraordinary, debater, speaker, author of books and articles, podcaster, blogger. That tells you how old he is. Blogger and father. |
| 1:07.4 | He's to, yeah, pigeons just send things. Yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | Yeah, he's, |
| 1:13.6 | that's how his blog used to get out. |
| 1:14.9 | Thanks for coming back. Smoke signals and carrier pigeons. |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, |
| 1:16.4 | absolutely. |
| 1:17.1 | Oh, |
| 1:17.5 | I remember your smoke signals were fantastic in the old days. |
| 1:20.5 | Yeah, |
| 1:21.0 | it was when you would light the fires in, |
| 1:24.1 | in Gondor and then it would come over to... |
| 1:29.3 | Where's that? |
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