Joseph Heschmeyer is an apologist for Catholic Answers. A former lawyer then former seminarian now turned author and Catholic speaker. He lives near Kansas City with his wife Anna and their children.
Within Christianity, there tend to be three major views of the place of excommunication: 1) We shouldn’t excommunicate anyone, because it’s not merciful. 2) We should excommunicate, because we want to purify the Church of the damned. 3) We should excommunicate, because it’s merciful to sinners. So...
Contemporary Christianity is fond of pushing Jesus without the Church. Like its secular counterpart (in which people claim to be “spiritual, but not religious”), it’s an attempt to have the relationship without the rules. If I’m lonely or going through a tragedy, I can pray, but I don’...
One of the most common ad hominem arguments against the pro-life movement is that pro-life people only really care about the unborn, and don’t care what happens after birth (or about the conditions into which the child will be born). Often, this argument goes hand-in-glove with the argument that...
I think that one mistake that we Catholics fall into is attempting to prove the faith without referencing the supernatural. We’ll use Scripture and reason to show the truth of Catholicism (which is great, of course), but we tend to get awkward about using miracles, particularly to non-believers. We’...
There have been a number of stories in the news lately of small Satanic groups publicly performing so-called “Black Masses.” These rituals are based on the Catholic mass but are inverted toward Satan and often involve the desecration of a Eucharistic host. This sort of thing is evil and should...
Mahatma Gandhi is credited with saying “I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” It’s a sentiment commonly invoked by both believers and non-believers to suggest that the bad behavior of Christians is what presents people from accepting Christianity. [See...
