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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. Transcript: 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 in places like Ukraine and Israel and the Palestinian Territories in Iran and probably many other places around the world that are not making the news to the same de...

Joe looks at Dispensationalism and whether the Bible actually teaches that Christians must support the modern state of Israel. Transcript: 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 question, but I want to look at one particular argument that is sometimes made. It was made recently by Senator Ted Cruz in his Tucker Carlson interview. It’s this a...

Joe responds to Pastor Vlad Savchuk and his video Catholics vs Christianity. Transcript: 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 YouTube, so I’m going to try to be as fair as I can to him. It’s clear that we run in kind of different spaces. His blog is mostly focused on, as far as ...

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...

Joe reviews the debate between David Wood and Alex O’Connor on the question “Did Jesus Claim to be God?” Transcript: Joe: 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 resolution is, did Jesus claim to be God? Now, longtime viewers of this channel may know I’ve actually reviewed another of Alex’s debates back when he debat...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 are written for us, but they’re not written to us. And then one of the most common ways people misunderstand the Bible is by assuming that they understand passag...

Today Joe reviews an informal debate he had with a former traditional catholic turned atheist on the sexual morality of Catholicism. Transcript: Joe: 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 now is an atheist who is living a gay lifestyle. So his name’s Cade, sorry, I should have started with that guy named Cade. And I’m just going to let him...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 saints, and especially our martyrs are venerated and they’re highly honored. They’re brave in the face of evil. They had fortitude in the greatest of trials....

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. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and today I want to try to draw good out of a bad situation. Now if you are from Kansas or nearby, and particularly if you’re a Catholic, there’s a good chance the bad situation I’m referring to on March 28th...

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 teachings from the earliest Christians and Old Testament prophecy. ...

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 Tate is playing the role of something like a Pagan philosopher and that his ideas should be evaluated on those grounds. Now I realize that is not the popular way of un...

Joe explains one of the best evidences for Christianity being true by examining the parallels between Psalm 22 and The Passion. Transcript: Joe: 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 where Jesus cries out from the cross, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Now, those words by themselves are terrifying in their implications. If Jesus is the ...

Today Joe highlights a growing problem with news consumption, and warns how it may be destroying your soul. Transcript: Joe: 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 design. Now, Steve Bannon, one of the masterminds behind President Trump’s first campaign, gave a fascinating interview back in 2019 where he talked about feeling...

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… Transcript Joe: 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 Christians know that it’s the penitential season in preparation for Easter Sunday, but how many of us know why the Linton season was instituted? Do we know wh…

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 pleased with how the debate turned out and from the 3000 plus comments that people have posed so far, it seems that many of you were pleased as well. So I’m going …

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 interesting to me is when I ask people when they were saved, nobody’s ever said to me when Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday, and I’m glad that peo…

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. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and before I say anything else, I need to start with this. I love William Lynn Craig. He’s a personal hero of mine, even when I disagree with him as I will be doing very…

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. Transcript: Joe: 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 a Christian forfeit their salvation by deciding that they no longer believe in Jesus Christ? This is an important question that is long divided, even different grou…

Joe addresses some of the misconceptions spread about the cannon of Scripture by people like Wes Huff and Dr. John Meade. With Wes’s rise to popularity from his debate with Billy Carson and appearance on Joe Rogan, we thought it’d be good to correct some of his errors. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and I want to belatedly talk about some of the arguments that were made by Wes Huff, both because I think he’s worth responding to in his own right and because I think the errors that he’s spreading are the kind of errors…

Today Joe tackles the Protestant claim that St. Peter never went to Rome. He looks at the biblical, historical and archeological evidence that confirms he did indeed lead the Church in Rome. Transcript: Joes: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and one of the biggest roadblocks that almost any Protestant dialogue in with the Catholic faces is the Pope. What makes him so special? Why should I follow that man when I’ve got the word of God? Well, Catholics believe part of the answer is this, Jesus Christ created the papacy. He changes Simon’s name to Pe…

Today Joe puts to rest 5 unbiblical real arguments protestants use against Mary. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer Protestants arguing with Catholics about Mary feels almost like a tale as old as time. We’ve been doing this apologetic dance for centuries and today I want to try to put some of these tired old steps to rest for good. So these are five of the worst arguments against Mary and how to answer them. Now, before we get into that, I need to take a moment to thank all of you who support Shameless Pope on Patreon. So if you see this b…

Joe Heschmeyer tackles the tough questions Christians face in a time when trust in institutions is at an all time low. What do we know to be true, especially when we’ve been lied to so much by the world? When does our distrust devolve into sin? Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I cannot go on social media right now without being barrage by people sharing fake news with me. And I don’t mean opinions I disagree with. I mean sharing things that are just factually untrue. It’s everything from a theory that is claiming things th…

Today Joe looks at the phenomenon of newer priests being more conservative and theologically orthodox, and progressive Catholicism’s failure to replicate itself… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and if you follow politics at all, chances are you’ve heard people opining on this idea that we’re in the midst of a great political upheaval. And the question is a good one. Anytime you see the voting populace change its preferences and vote for a different party, we should be asking what that means for the future of the …

Today Joe Heschmeyer looks at JD Vance’s journey from Evangelical Christian, to atheism via Richard Dawkins, and finally coming home to Catholicism. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to begin today a series of episodes that are loosely about the relationship between Christianity and more specifically Catholicism and politics. Now, before I say anything else, lemme be really clear. My goal on these is not to do the kind of standard things where I tell you how to vote or what. Just think about a particular bill or whether t…

Today Joe tackles the Protestant accusation that Catholics practice necromancy when they pray to the Saints. We take a look at 1 Samuel 28 and Saul’s consultation with the Witch of Endor. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Today I want to consider two contradictory arguments often made by the very same people against the Catholic practice of praying to the saints and Mary in heaven. So some Protestants will regard this practice simply as pointless. Why not just go directly to God? But other people will go beyond that and say it’s not…

Joe Heschmeyer examines whether the Protestant Reformers were truly the bold, uncompromising figures that they’re commonly thought to be. Transcription: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery; I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to address today this idea that the Protestant reformers, I’m going to focus particularly on Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Knox for reasons that’ll become clear very soon, whether they really are the sort of uncompromising figures we think of them as because there’s this idea that these were people who were bold enough to proclaim the gosp…

Joe Heschmeyer examines the question: Did Jesus Have to Die on the Cross?…

Joe Heschmeyer explores the role of works in salvation and Catholic teaching on the Treasury of Merit.…

Joe Heschmeyer breaks down Mel Gibson's recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, rebutting his schismatic arguments for Sedevacantism.…

Joe Heschmeyer examines Cameron Bertuzi's and Gavin Ortlund's recent videos on the problem of the Biblical Canon.…

Joe Heschmeyer explores the question "Are Catholics Christian?" and the problem with the typical Catholic response.…