A Catholic take on Netflix's Midnight Mass, Joe Heshmeyer, is next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answer's Podcast for Living, Understanding, and Defending Your Catholic Faith.

I'm Psykel at your host, and one thing that we know in this movie era, in this era of the moving image,

the Catholic Church looks good on film, and they did it again in a new mini-series from Netflix.

There's something that you can make very creepy about a Catholic Church, or something that you can make very beautiful about a Catholic Church.

They do both in this Netflix series, but we wanted to take a closer look at the Catholicism that's portrayed in the series.

It seems to me that the series producers intended to make a serious depiction of Catholics and Catholic faith and Catholic things.

Did they get it right? Especially when it comes to the Catholic understanding of death.

That's what we asked Joe Heshmeyer. Here's what he had to say.

Joe Heshmeyer Apologist here at Catholic Answer's author of a whole bunch of books, including Pope Peter, Defending the Church's Most Distinctive Doctrine in a Time of Crisis.

Thanks for being with us, Joe.

All right, pleasure.

All right, so we both watched the Netflix thing Midnight Mass, and people told me you got to watch it, because it's really Catholic, and there's probably stuff you'll want to talk about on the show.

Why did you watch it?

Well, I watched it because when I was out of town at the Catholic Answer's conference, my wife started it by herself and got too scared.

I said, I needed to come home and watch it with her.

All right, well, we're going to, there will be spoilers throughout, so take that into consideration.

But the good thing about these spoilers is what Joe and I are going to do over the course of the next half hour or so is actually better than anything you'll see in Midnight Mass.

So even if you haven't seen it, this will be better than the show, don't you think, Joe?

You know, those are pretty strong words, let me put it this way.

The show is longer than an actual Midnight Mass.

Well, that's right, yes.

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