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.
Scripture prophesies and prescribes Marian devotion, and a careful reading of the New and Old Testament together shows that Mary is given a pride of place rarely (if ever) found in Protestant denominations. But that is not the end of the story. Protestants examining this evidence will sometimes be intellectually...
Humans know two things: how things are (the World), and how they should be (the Ideal). I don’t mean that we know these things perfectly, or that every person completely agrees with every other person about what is or what ought to be. But everyone has some sense of...
A common objection to Catholicism is that Catholics ignore the Bible in calling priests Father. After all, in Matthew 23:9, Jesus says, “call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” It seems, on the surface, that Catholics are just violating...
Happy St. Valentine’s Day, the one day a year in which all Americans, regardless of religion, build their lives around the Traditional Latin Mass calendar. For those of us using the Ordinary Form calendar, today is the Memorial of Saints Cyril and Methodius, not St. Valentine, a little something...
Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of the popular Cosmos show, spent Christmas morning on Twitter, mocking Christians: On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642 — Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) December 25, 2014 Merry Christmas...
As BuzzFeed recently demonstrated, a lot of Christians are ignorant as to what Hanukkah is. That’s a shame, not least of all because the story of Hanukkah is closely intertwined with Catholic history. Here are two facts that you might not know about the Catholic connection to Hanukkah. 1)...
