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
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God? It’s one of the hottest topics of debate online right now, and it seems as though there are many Christians who believe Muslims DON’T worship the same God. Joe walks us through the arguments and shares Church teaching to help guide us through this conundrum.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Do Muslims worship the same goddess Chr...
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Pew Research recently released a very worrying report for Catholics in America, showing a drastic decline since 2014. Many people, including Trent Horn, made videos sounding the alarms to try and raise awareness. Joe shows that the data may not be as bleak as we think…
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to explore the question of whether an American Catholic revival is under...
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Alex O’Connor gives an excellent breakdown of the historicity of the Resurrection account, but STILL denies that it happened. Why? Joe pushes back and points out where Alex is excellent and where he needs some help.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to wish you a joyous Easter as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Why is it that Christians are con...
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Our prayers and sorrow go out to the Holy Father Pope Francis and the Church he was tasked with shepherding. Please keep him in your prayers these next 9 days for the repose of his soul. Joe talks about the intricate process of what happens after a pope dies.
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Welcome back, To Shamless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and this morning, Easter Monday, Pope Francis died at the age of 88. Whether you’re a Catholi...
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Some Protestants claim that Catholics try to “put Jesus back on the Cross,” at Mass, citing Scripture like “Once For All” or “It is Finished.” Joe explains why the Eucharist is necessary to complete Christ’s once for all Sacrifice.
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Welcome back, Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to wish you a happy holy Thursday as we commemorate the last supper of Jesus...
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Joe tackles bad Protestant theology on the Cross and Psalm 22, rebutting those claiming that God the Father abandoned Jesus on the Cross. Some go so far as to call the Cross “the most obscene thing in all of creation.” Let’s test that against the Bible and see what the truth is…
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? The haunting...
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Joe reviews the debate between David Wood and Alex O’Connor on the question “Did Jesus Claim to be God?”
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Welcome back to Shamless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I wanted to review the recent debate between Alex O’Connor, cosmic Skeptic on YouTube and David Wood, who has Acts 17 ministries. So it’s a skeptic and agnostic, I believe atheist actually against a Christian, and the res...
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Joe responds AGAIN to NeedGod.net’s misreading of Scripture in regards to Mary’s perpetual virginity. We hope this stands as an excellent example of why someone can’t just read the Bible for themselves and expect to interpret it correctly.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I hope that today’s rebuttal will stand as a shining example that the books of the Bible ar...
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Today Joe reviews an informal debate he had with a former traditional catholic turned atheist on the sexual morality of Catholicism.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I got a fascinating invitation recently to sit down with a guy named Cade to talk about Catholic sexual ethics and gay marriage and trans stuff and all this stuff with a guy who at one point was a traditional Catholic and ...
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Happy April Fools! Joe talks about the awesome (and also kind of hilarious) stories of 4 martyrs and how the Church responded to their great sacrifice.
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Joe-come back to pOpelESs ShAmeMeRY. I’m Will MEshiRE. And in honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought I’d share something a little bit lighter, although it’s paradoxically something a lot darker. The gallus humor of the Catholic church, our sain...
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The Satanic Grotto are planning a Black Mass to be held at the state capitol on Friday March 28th. Joe thought this would be a good opportunity both to call for prayer and attendance of Mass that day, but also to show how satanism aping Catholicism specifically points to Catholicism being true.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and today I want to try to draw good out of a bad situation. ...
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Joe tackles the misguided teaching of NeedGod.net on Mary’s perpetual virginity, citing evidence and prophecy from the Bible.
By simply taking an analytical look at the Gospels, and comparing that to what we know of Jewish marriage tradition and parental law, we can conclude that Mary promised herself as a virgin to the Lord for her entire life. Joe succinctly shows this through Scripture, and backs the position up with teach...
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It’s actually remarkable just how closely Andrew Tate’s philosophy aligns with old pagan ideas of masculinity. Today Joe examines how this compares to the perfected masculinity of Christ.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to offer a Christian take on Andrew Tate. More specifically, I want to propose a thesis that I haven’t heard anybody else make, namely that Ta...
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Joe explains one of the best evidences for Christianity being true by examining the parallels between Psalm 22 and The Passion.
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Welcome back to Shamlesss Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I want to talk about one of the most powerful lines in the whole Bible and how it’s connected to what I think might be the most incredible prophetic and detailed Old Testament account of the crucifixion. It’s the line ...
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Today Joe highlights a growing problem with news consumption, and warns how it may be destroying your soul.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and if you think that keeping up with news and politics right now is just overwhelming, well, good news. I guess you’re correct and you should know that some of that feeling of being overwhelmed that you’re experiencing is actually by des...
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Today Joe takes us through the history of one of the most beautiful liturgical seasons, Lent. And shows us that it’s WAY older and grounded in Christian history than you realize…
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and today I want to explore the true history of lint. Now, some Christians just know lint is that time of year where we give stuff up. They may not even know why other...
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Joe does a debrief with John DeRosa on the debate with James White on the Mass being a propitiatory sacrifice, and the infamous Ignatius statement.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and this is going to be a little different of an episode than I normally do. As you may know, I was just down in AR Kansas this past week to debate James White on the sacrifice of the mass. I’m really plea...
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Following Joe’s debate with James White, he lays out the case for why the Mass is a propitiatory sacrifice and the most essential Christian practice, supported by Scripture, Church Fathers and the Reformers themselves.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I want to start by asking you a question. Can you point to a moment in your own life in which you were saved? I hope so. What’s...
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William Lane Craig is one of the most popular theologians and Christian apologists today. We actually have a lot of respect and admiration for him. However he, like many other Protestants, falls into some seriously dangerous pitfalls when following Sola Scriptura, to the point of denying core attributes of the God we profess to believe and adore.
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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and before...
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If a person professes belief in Jesus Christ then later says they do not believe, were they actually ever Christian? Some protestants think not, and today Joe Heschmeyer dismantles the false doctrine of Eternal Security.
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Welcome back to Shamless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Is it possible for a Christian to lose their salvation? Can a Christian forfeit their salvation by returning to a life of serious sin? Can...
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