#12746 How Can the Catholic Church Be Infallible? Heresy and Worship - Joe Heschmeyer
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🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
“How can the Catholic Church be infallible?” This question addresses concerns about the Church’s historical positions, including its past endorsement of burning heretics. Other topics include the nature of worship as sacrifice and the confusion some feel about identifying as a Christian amidst various denominations. Additionally, there are discussions about the papacy and its perception within the context of modern issues.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:55 – My non-Catholic friend asks how can the Catholic Church be infallible when it has flip-flopped on issues. The issue he cites is the Church endorsement of burning heretics, and then later saying we shouldn’t.
- 14:45 – I’ve heard you say that worship is sacrifice. But my Protestant friend says they do sacrifice — sacrifice of praise.
- 24:25 – I’m not Catholic or Protestant or Orthodox because it is so confusing. So I just identify as a Christian.
- 42:25 – I’m considering Catholicism but I have some concerns. My SDA friend sent me a document saying the papacy was the beast of Revelation. Also I feel like the Catholic Church is not as welcoming to the LGBT community.
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| 0:38.4 | And then there's another movie, I think from the 1950s called three guys named Mike and |
| 0:42.0 | if you combine those two and get three guys named Joe that describes our first |
| 0:45.9 | hour I was the only person on the air last hour who was not named Joe Joey or |
| 0:51.8 | Joseph it was an all Joe hour. |
| 1:31.2 | And Joe Heschmire, the lone survivor from that hour, only because we pay him. He has to stay here. Welcome back, Joe. What do you think of that hour? I'm happy to be back. I think the other guys would have stayed around. I think Joey and Joseph, they seemed happy to stick around. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be it would be nice to get some other colors, too, who aren't named Joe to see if they've got good thoughts too. Man, I tell you what, conversations between Christians who don't agree with one another, but are Christian towards one another, or I think they're just priceless. I don't think you can, you could put a price on that. That's, |
| 1:45.2 | like, those guys, they didn't have to do that. That was a favor to, I mean, they, yeah, it was, it was really beautiful that they shared their, their thoughts on it. I, and I say this all the time, but I'm going to say it again. So often, I think people are afraid to do that because they're afraid it's going to be insulting or something. If somebody tells you why they're not Catholic, |
| 1:48.5 | you know, you think you're going to hurt our feelings as Catholics. |
| 1:50.6 | But the reality is for any well-formed Catholic, that is such a golden opportunity to be |
| 1:57.8 | able to say, well, here's why I am Catholic. |
| 1:59.2 | But for you too. |
| 1:59.8 | And also to hopefully, you know, help them understand an issue that may give them some real concern. Some often, so often it's like this thing that they're right to be worried about, but it just turns out that isn't quite how it is. Right, right. I just made a joke at your expense and you completely missed it. I totally missed it. I'm sorry. That's all right. You can go back in here. You can go listen to the tape later. I'm dreading it. I'm going to. It wasn't a good joke. It was just a joke. All right, how can we go back to the phones? By the way, Joe Heschier's podcast is called Shameless Popery. Joe is a shameless |
| 2:35.5 | papist. He was working so hard with those two callers last hour. We never talked about it. |
| 2:40.8 | So I will take a little time to let Joe tell us what's on at this hour. But I also feel like |
| 2:45.9 | we kept callers waiting a long time. So I want to get a couple of folks on with you. |
| 2:50.4 | How about if we go to |
| 2:51.2 | Spencer, Tennessee to start this hour where Andrew is listening on the Catholic Answers app. |
| 2:56.9 | Andrew, why aren't you Catholic? Well, I actually am Catholic. My buddy is not, but I don't know |
| 3:05.0 | how I'm going to follow up those two guys. Those guys were awesome. They were. They were awesome. They were. Yeah. Yeah, they were. Great episode of shameless popery, too, by the way, Joe. Oh, thank you very much. Earlier this morning. And it's great to be on with the legendary Cy Kelloggling. You are just full of compliments, aren't you today? Everybody's going to leave you feeling good, Andrew. |
| 3:27.5 | Well, I'm going to do my best to articulate this, okay? |
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