#12745 Why Aren’t You Catholic? Prayer, Saints, and Idolatry - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“Why Aren’t You Catholic?” addresses the reasons some individuals hesitate to embrace Catholicism, including concerns about unanswered prayers and the role of saints. The discussion also touches on the perception of praying to saints as idolatry and the scriptural basis for understanding prayer as worship.
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Questions Covered:
- 01:26 – I’m Not Catholic because after years of prayer, research, and personal conversations, God Has not allowed me to become Catholic
- 32:58 – I’m Not Catholic Because Prayer to Saints seems to be a type of Idolatry. I believe scripture makes it clear that prayer is a form of worship.
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| 0:11.5 | Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Hello, welcome to Catholic Answers Live. I'm Cy Kellett, your host. Very happy to be with you on this, I don't know. I think it's a Wednesday. I probably should check the date before I get in here. Joe Heschmeier, our guests for both hours. And we're going to do, why aren't you Catholic? So if you're not Catholic, we're holding the phone lines for you. 8883-187-884. Joe, welcome. Thanks. Thanks for having me. Could you thank Anna for addressing you today? Clearly, you did not dress yourself. Clearly she was involved in this. I will take that as a compliment. Yeah, you look nice. That's right. You look nice. 888-3187-884. We already got callers, Joe, so I'm going to go right to the phone. Let's just get right into it. Why aren't you Catholic? Our question. Let's start with Joey from the Christianity United YouTube channel on YouTube. All right. Joey, this is a wonderful opportunity for us to have a conversation. Thank you for calling. |
| 1:28.3 | Yeah, thanks for having me. |
| 1:31.3 | So why aren't you Catholic? |
| 1:33.3 | Yeah, I guess to sum it up in like a sentence. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm not Catholic because after years of prayer, research, and personal conversations I've had, |
| 1:43.3 | I'm convinced God is not allowing me to become Catholic, at least not right now. |
| 1:49.4 | That's very interesting. |
| 1:51.3 | And so not allowing you specifically, or you think he's not allowing anyone? |
| 1:56.9 | Me specifically. |
| 1:58.0 | I'm a big fan of the Catholic Church, of the Sea of Rome. I'm not an anti-Catholic by any means. |
| 2:04.6 | But me personally, I just haven't been felt, I haven't felt allowed to make that jump. |
| 2:10.6 | So is it just an interior block or is there a particular, like is there a biblical a biblical or logical objection or do you think you |
| 2:20.4 | have something good enough within kind of the broader Protestant world? |
| 2:25.0 | Or what, I don't want to put words in your mouth at all, but is there a way you can articulate |
| 2:28.9 | what that looks like and feels like for you? |
| 2:32.8 | Yeah, yeah, and I appreciate you clarifying. |
| 2:35.9 | Yeah, I think it's probably a hodgepodge of reasons. |
| 2:38.9 | There are logical reasons, of course, and intellectual, you know, kind of theological ones. |
| 2:44.6 | And I guess in some ways there has been that interior block. |
| 2:47.4 | And like in full disclosure, I tell people this. |
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