#12155 What Is an Apostolic Pardon and How Does It Work? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The apostolic pardon offers a powerful grace at the moment of death—but what exactly is it? We explain its purpose, how it works, and also discuss the Church’s authority in science, the reality of hell, and why confession is an underrated tool in apologetics.

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Questions Covered:

05:16 – What authority does the Church have on scientific matters when it comes to faith and morals?
12:32 – What is an apostolic pardon and how does it work?
20:08 – How can people go to hell if God knows what would be good for them?
37:59 – Why don’t we use the availability of confession as an apologetics selling point?

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0:34.1	We're right in the midst of Holy Week.
0:35.4	Today is called Spy Wednesday.
0:37.9	I don't know if all the days of Holy Week have a name. I really don't know. But if not, then today is the
0:44.2	start of the named days. Spy Wednesday today, Holy Thursday tomorrow, Good Friday, Holy Saturday.
0:52.0	And then, of course, Easter Sunday. So we're getting right into the thick of it.
0:56.0	It's going to be an ask me anything today.
0:57.5	So if you've got questions about Easter, about Good Friday, about all the events of that fateful Passover weekend, 2,000 years ago, you're welcome to call.
1:08.5	Or if you've got a question about anything else, 8883187-884,
1:12.9	AAA-3-1-8-8-8-4. Joe Heschmire is our guest. He's an apologist here at Catholic
1:18.7	Ganser's writer of a whole bunch of books, including the Eucharist Israeli Jesus and Pope Peter
1:23.5	and a man named Joseph, Guardian for Our Times, a whole bunch.
1:28.3	Joe Heschmire, welcome.
1:30.3	Thanks, and by the way, all of the days of Holy Week are just called, like, well, the first ones are just Holy Monday, Holy Tuesday.
1:37.3	Spy Wednesday, Mondi Thursday is the name in England from Mandatum, and then Good Friday, and then Holy Saturday.
1:46.7	So, yeah, this is a lot of cool names for days of the week during Holy Week.
1:52.1	There's never a shortage of stuff to memorize as a Catholic.
1:56.7	We have so much stuff.
1:59.2	Like, we got Holy Thursday, but you know what?
2:01.3	So you can call it Monty Thursday.
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