#11916 Ask Me Anything - Joe Heschmeyer

Questions Covered:

• 03:27 – How can I get across to my confirmation students the importance of going to confession? 
• 11:53 – How did the Magi know that the star of Bethlehem was leading them to the king of the Jews? 
• 16:21 – Does Joe still hate cheesecake or have you repented of that sin? And is Cy going to release a full version of St. Irenaeus and the Goblet of Fire? 
• 22:26 – I heard Catholics say that Scripture has a kind of primacy over Tradition. But that seems to contradict what I’ve read in the Catechism and Dei Verbum. Can you explain? 
• 31:19 – The shroud of turin is one cloth, but one of the Gospels clearly says there’s a separate cloth for his head. Is that a problem? 
• 34:33 – What is the Catholic position on embryos? Are they alive or just tissue? 
• 43:44 – Can you help me explain the role of Mary in salvation history? 
• 48:39 – How can we know God, and in what way is a person able to know God? 
• 52:05 – How can be there different levels of approach to God in heaven? I’m uncomfortable with that idea.