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#12156 Was Papal Infallibility Practiced in the Early Church? - Joe Heschmeyer

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🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Many exploring Orthodoxy question whether the pope’s authority was recognized in the early centuries. We look at the history behind papal infallibility, plus Catholic answers on the devil, 1 Timothy 2:12, and the Bread of Life discourse.

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Questions Covered:

00:20 – Content Creator Spotlight: Desirea Sifuentes, the Uncatechized Catholic 

15:98 – Why does God let the devil run around to cause problems? 

28:45 – I’m Catholic, considering Orthodoxy. Was papal infallibility practiced in the early Church? 

38:30 – What’s the context  1 Tim 2:12 and what was going on for him to write it? 

44:28 – What supporting verses do you have for your understanding of the Bread of Life discourse? 

Transcript

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Edgar's been getting wonderful guests for us to get to visit with lately.

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And we've got a few minutes now with Desire Sefentes before we go back to getting Joe

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to answer questions.

0:45.6

And I do apologize, especially to Susan in Idaho, who I think has been waiting a long time,

0:50.3

but we'll probably just give her a pile of Joe's books and hope that that will make up

0:53.7

for all the long waiting.

0:55.2

But if you're online, you know that there's just a cadre of really wonderful, among all the other things that are there online,

1:04.8

there is this group of really wonderful young apologists and evangelists who are sharing the Catholic faith

1:10.5

in all kinds of

1:11.8

interesting ways, ways that are very helpful to people where they are, not just people who

1:18.3

already know where to look for this stuff, but they're going out in a certain sense on the

1:23.6

highways and byways of the Internet and finding people. Desiree makes the uncatechized Catholic.

1:32.4

I don't know if my words are a correct podcast, but mostly I know it from Instagram. Desire,

1:38.8

thank you for being here with us. No problem. Thanks for having me, Joe. And thanks for waiting so

1:43.3

I can talk, Susan.

1:45.0

Oh, did you want to talk to Susan? Oh, you're saying, I see your, oh, you're, I got you.

1:51.4

So I'm right. You're mostly, mostly you do your work on Instagram. I do. Yes. I am actually

1:57.9

going to graduate from Franciscan University in three weeks, and then I will

2:02.5

get to pivot into the podcast space.

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