Shameless Popery

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. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and one of the things that can startle readers of the Bible is when we read that God loves one individual or group and hates another. For instance, St. Paul explains the plan of God by saying that Jacob I loved, but he...

Joe’s response to Redeemed Zoomer (and the other Calvinists) who said he was strawmanning Calvinism in my last video. Transcript: 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 and I’d originally planned to do an episode unpacking the biblical usage of terms like love and hate. Particularly when you hear God saying things like, Jacob, h...

Today Joe demonstrates how Calvinism is actually completely illogical, and how if true, it demands that Christians have more love than God…not joking. Transcript: 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 because it doesn’t actually make logical sense within its own rules. Now, I realize that’s a big claim and I’m about to set out an argument that I don...

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… Transcript: 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 Jeffrey Riddle is onto something when he declares that contemporary Christians are in the middle of a canonical crisis, a crisis about which books and which parts of bo...

Joe explains why devotion to the Sacred Heart is the remedy to Pride Month, but what exactly DOES that look like? Transcript: 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 sick of it all. And you might know as well that for us as Catholics, June is also the month dedicated to the sacred heart of Jesus. Now, in response to so-called Pr...

Joe attends to what remains of Ryan’s argument against the salvific power of Baptism. Transcript: 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 time on that, or I wish there’d been more time to cover this topic. And this was no different. I think the debate went really well. I still think there were s...

Joe replies to Ryan from NeedGod.net following their debate on whether Baptism saves. You can watch the debate for yourself right here: https://youtu.be/dWFlknJgLIY Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and on Sunday I had a debate with Ryan from Need god.net on whether or not water baptism saves. Since I’m actually recording this on Friday a lo from the past, I can only pray that the debate went well. Now you can follow the link in the description to view the debate for yourself and you can let me know how you think I did. But in any case, in the c...

Joe addresses 5 bad catholic arguments that you think are good, but actually aren’t. And he gives you some tips on how to be more convincing when engaging Protestants! Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and today I want to explore five bad arguments that we as Catholics need to stop using in our conversations with our Protestant brothers and sisters. These are arguments that I’ve heard and sometimes made and they’re bad arguments and we can do better. So before I get there, I want actually lay out a few kind of positive tools because I...

Today Joe examines why it’s probably not a good idea to look to Martin Luther in matters of faith and reason. We look at Luther’s call to ban Aristotle from the Church, arguably the most important contributor to Western ethics and phenomenology. And Joe examines Luther’s absolutely wild claim that he is the “new Noah,”….yes, like the ark. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Sam Popery. I’m Joe Smar and I want to unpack a fascinating writing from the father of Protestantism, Martin Luther, and to show why I think you should probably change how you view Lut...

Today, Joe is trying something a new! He takes his first stab at doing a tier list, and what better way to start than by tackling the Protestant arguments against Catholicism? Which ones are actually compelling? Which ones are completely made up and terrible? Let’s see what Joe thinks… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to do something a little different today. I want to take a couple dozen different Protestant arguments against Catholicism, and I want to rank them in a purely subjective way or almost purely subjective way in term...

There’s been a LOT of buzz about Pope Leo XIV, both in Catholic media and secular media. Everyone has been digging into Leo’s past and online history (which in itself is very surreal) and we’ve found a lot. Here’s why Joe believes Pope Leo XIV could be an excellent Pope… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and like everyone else, I’m still waiting to see what Pope Leo the XIV pontificate is going to be like. CLIP: Is he woke? We still don’t know. The new Pope is American. We still don’t know if he’s w...

HABEMUS PAPEM! Here’s what we know about Pope Leo XIV, former Cardinal Robert Prevost. Transcript:   Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and Cardinal Robert Privos of Chicago, Illinois was just named today the new Pope, Pope Leo the 14th. He is the first American Pope, and this comes literally one day after Alah Rose’s show. I said, well, he was the most likely American to become Pope. There probably wouldn’t be an American pope this time around, and he was probably unlikely. CLIP: What are the odds that we get an American Pope? Joe: I would s...

Lila Rose was kind enough to ask Joe Heschmeyer to appear on her podcast LIVE and discuss all things Conclave and Papacy! Here’s a clip discussing the likely Papal candidates and what we know about them. Be sure to go see the FULL interview over on Lila’s channel! Transcript: Lila: Welcome back to the Lila Rose Show. So happy that you guys are here. I’m excited to have you here because this is such a special moment with the conclave. I know everyone was very excited today. Is there going to be white smoke and we didn’t get it. Did you think there was a chance we would g...

The Papal Conclave starts tomorrow, and between popular media like “Conclave” and “The Young Pope” garnering tons of attention, and misconceptions around power hungry Cardinals vying for the top spot in the Catholic Church, Joe breaks down what we can expect from the upcoming Conclave, and how other REAL Popes felt when they took office. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and the conclave. To elect a new pope to succeed, Pope Francis begins tomorrow. Now, recent history is any guide. We’re probably going to have a new pope ...

Today Joe explains how so many different Protestants give so many different answers about who was the first Pope. Most of them will REFUSE to say that it’s Peter, but if Joe can show that all their answers are wrong….who else is left? Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and one of the things that’s happened with the death of Pope Francis in this move towards conclave, which begins May 7th, I’ll talk about that more when we get there as we await the election of a new Pope. People who may not normally ask questions about Catholicism...

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. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Do Muslims worship the same goddess Christians? It’s a hot topic of debate online. It’s got many Christians asking the question sincerely. And the second Vatican Council famously said yes to t...

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… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to explore the question of whether an American Catholic revival is underway, whether the American Catholic Church is dying. Because if you do something like Google Catholic Church droves, at least in my experience, the top two results ar...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 convinced that Jesus really did rise from the dead? Do we just blindly believe it because this book full of neat stories told us so? Or can we use evidence and reason t...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 Catholic or not, whether you liked Pope Francis or not, I ask you to please pray for the repose of his soul. We are reminded in this Easter season that death is real, but i...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 Christ in which he institutes the Eucharist and the priesthood. And I know many of you hearing that are already saying it’s not really what we believe in my t...

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… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? The haunting words that echo from the cross as our Lord suffers on Good Friday, they’re a powerful meditation for Holy Week. And as I mentioned in an earlier episode, Jesu...