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.
American Atheists responded to the Pennsylvania state legislature’s designation of 2012 as “Year of the Bible” with mocking billboards, and a press release insisting that “the House of Representatives should not be celebrating a barbaric and Bronze Age book.” It’s a common argument against the Bible, that it...
In Revelation 5:1-10, St. John describes a seven-sealed scroll that no one could open: “And I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals; and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with...
Did you know that the Vatican City has a nuclear arms agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency? [See also: QUIZ: Which Book of the Bible Are You?] It’s true. In fact, the Vatican has specifically promised the IAEA that they will “make every reasonable effort” to let them...
A few years ago, a “gun-toting atheist” and self-proclaimed “anti-theist” killed three Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. There was some question about whether the killer was motivated by atheism or some other motivation. What there’s no question of is that much of the secular response was predictably tasteless...
Elsewhere, I’ve written two articles on praying to the Saints. One of my old college roommates responded by asking what to make of the objection that these sorts of prayers are idolatrous: To summarize what I was taught/raised with, prayer to the saints is essentially idolatry or supplementing...
The New Republic’s latest pro-choice contribution to the abortion debate is remarkable, in that, despite getting virtually everything it says factually wrong, it still raises an interesting problem for pro-choicers and atheists. Here’s the Twitter teaser to the piece that started it all: According to the author of...
