Shameless Popery
Shameless Popery is a witty, entertaining podcast that informs you about your Catholic faith and equips you to better explain Catholicism especially to Protestant or atheist friends.
Episodes
Joe has a chat with Brayden from The Catechumen and Adrian from Sips with Serra whether Protestants partake in worship. If Protestants separate themselves from the Eucharistic sacrifice, how can they partake in worship?
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I’m here at the Catholic Creators Conference with Adrian from Sips with Serra and Brayden from the Catechumen. And I wanted to po...
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Joe breaks down Mormon teaching on never worshiping or praying to Jesus. Yes, you read that correctly…
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So should Christians worship Jesus and should we pray to him, those questions might seem obvious. Anybody calling themselves Christian or they might not. They might be things you’ve wondered yourself as you considered how to approach God. But ...
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Joe breaks down the 8 Daughters of Lust as described by St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Gregory the Great.
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RuslanKD is a very respected YouTuber in the Evangelical space, and recently he made a video explaining why he wasn’t Catholic or Orthodox. Joe responds to his video explaining why he SHOULD BE CATHOLIC!
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Joe gives advice to Catholics on how to respond to scandal in the Church, in light of recent allegations brought forward against Alex Jurado.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and today I think it’s important to talk about some of the allegations involving Alex Jurado better known online as voice of reason. Now, I hate internet drama and I don’t think it’s spiritually heal...
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Joe explains how the early Church Fathers understood the Eucharist, and demonstrates how immensely powerful the Paschal meal in bringing us to eternal life.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And last episode I mentioned this. I’m really looking forward to just doing an episode on how Gregory of Nisa shows the Eucharist is connected to bodily resurrection and glorification because it&...
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Today Joe explores Theosis, a teaching that sometimes doesn’t get enough attention in the West, but arguably is the entire reason God created us. Joe shows you how theosis has been revealed in Scripture and how the Church Fathers tried to wrestle with this amazing concept.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to talk today about a Christian doctrine that sounds heretical. If I...
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Joe dives deeper into the wildness that is Dispensationalism, and looks at some of the people and books responsible for spreading it in modern times? Were they able to predict the future? No….not even close actually.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and know the title of this video is not an exaggeration, it’s not clickbait. Today we’re actually going to explore how a dan...
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Joe replies to a reply to a reply….yes this is true.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Now, I don’t normally do a Friday episode, particularly on the 4th of July, but Dr. Gavin Orlin replied to my episode from yesterday in a way that I think naturally raised some questions about my integrity and whether I’m treating his argument fairly. So I want to actually begin by agre...
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Joe responds to the recent conversation between Gavin Ortlund, Javier Perdomo and Cleave to Antiquity about the integrity of the Protestant canon of Scripture.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to explore the Protestant Bible and whether it has the right number of books because as you may know, Protestant Bibles are seven books shorter than Catholic. Bibles are also shorte...
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Joe explains the disagreements between Christians on Church governance, and explores how the Bible and the Early Church thought the Church should be governed.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and a great disagreement between Christian denominations is on the question of how the church ought to be structured. Now all sides are going to appeal to the Bible to support their positions, but of...
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With the conflict between Israel, Hamas and now the United States Bombing Iran, there is a lot of disagreement even among Catholics on whether these actions are just. Joe shows Church teaching on just war to help us break through the noise.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to talk about the concept of just war because there are a lot of conflicts going on in the world right now ...
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Joe looks at Dispensationalism and whether the Bible actually teaches that Christians must support the modern state of Israel.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and one of the most contentious topics right now is this question of whether we should support Israel in hiss ongoing fight against Hamas and now against Iran. And there are people who I respect who answer both sides of that questi...
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Joe responds to Pastor Vlad Savchuk and his video Catholics vs Christianity.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to respond to a series of arguments against Catholicism made by the popular Evangelical pastor, VLA de Savchuk. And full disclosure, I’m not particularly familiar with him. I’ve seen a few clips of him, but it turns out he’s massively popular on ...
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Joe demonstrates how common English translations of the Bible don’t capture the whole reality of what ancient Jews and Christians understood about “love” and “hate.” Understanding the old world meaning of these words will make you see the Bible in a completely new context.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and one of the things that can startle readers of the...
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Joe’s response to Redeemed Zoomer (and the other Calvinists) who said he was strawmanning Calvinism in my last video.
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Joe:
If you can watch ’em in the video, skip my entire third part where I lay out how this is a logical contradiction and he just says, well, let me know if I missed anything important. You did. You missed the crux of the argument. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer an...
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Today Joe demonstrates how Calvinism is actually completely illogical, and how if true, it demands that Christians have more love than God…not joking.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and as far as I can tell, Calvinism is logically impossible. That is, I don’t just disagree with how Calvinists interpret scripture and theology reform, Protestantism seemingly cannot be true bec...
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Joe tackles a big issue surrounding the canon of Scripture, particularly Mark 16. Wes Huff made a good video explaining the debate between scholars one whether Mark 16 is inspired or not. Joe weighs in with a definitive answer…
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and I want to explore the bright ending to the gospel of Mark. Now that might sound obscure, but I want to suggest that Jef...
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Joe explains why devotion to the Sacred Heart is the remedy to Pride Month, but what exactly DOES that look like?
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and as we enter the month of June, we are once again reminded that the secular, particularly corporate world is celebrating Pride Month. It’s been very in your face for years now, and I’m sure many of my fellow Christians are getting...
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Joe attends to what remains of Ryan’s argument against the salvific power of Baptism.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and this is the first episode I’ve recorded since I did my debate with Ryan from Need god.net on Sunday. So I wanted to cover a few of the things. Anytime you do a debate, there’s always some stuff where afterwards you say, oh, I wish I’d spent more...
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