# #12730 AMA: Catholicism - Joe Heschmeyer Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-answers-live-681348/12730-ama-catholicism-joe-heschmeyer Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-answers-live-681348/12730-ama-catholicism-joe-heschmeyer.md Podcast: [Catholic Answers Live](https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-answers-live-681348) Published: 2026-05-23T00:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.catholic.com/audio/cal/why-arent-you-catholic-55 Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/cdn.catholic.com/wp-content/uploads/ca260520b-May-20-H2.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-answers-live-681348/episodes/12730-ama-catholicism-joe-heschmeyer ## Resource 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? ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/catholic-answers-live-681348/episodes/12730-ama-catholicism-joe-heschmeyer/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/catholic-answers-live-681348/12730-ama-catholicism-joe-heschmeyer.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.