Shameless Popery

Joe critiques William Lane Craig's claims about early Christian disunity on the Eucharist, showing the evidence undermines Craig's case.

If you’re looking for some fantastic books to add to your summer reading list, you’ve come to the right place! Joe interviews 11 Catholic creators and asked them which book changed their life. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I’m actually here at the Catholic Creator Conference, and I was thinking as we get near to the end of summer, some of you’re going to have a little bit of free time, maybe go down to the beach or the lake or somewhere where you might be thinking I should get something good to read. And I thought this ...

Joe weighs in on the latest back and forth between William Lane Craig and Gavin Ortlund. In this episode, Joe tests Dr. Craig’s biblical arguments against the real presence of the Eucharist. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I think that two of the Protestants doing the most interesting things online right now are Dr. William Lane Craig and Dr. Gavin Orlund. So I’ve been very interested in their recent sort of sparring over the doctrine of the Eucharist. The biggest area of contention is Gavin’s claim that Baptists actually belie...

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? Transcript: 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 pose a question. So my most viewed video as of the time of recording is a video I did called Do Protestants Worship or Do Protestants Worship God. And the video has go...

Joe breaks down Mormon teaching on never worshiping or praying to Jesus. Yes, you read that correctly… Transcript: 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 today I want to respond to the fascinating answers provided to those questions by the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, better known as the LDS or the Mor...

Joe breaks down the 8 Daughters of Lust as described by St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Gregory the Great. Transcript: ...

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! Transcript: ...

Joe gives advice to Catholics on how to respond to scandal in the Church, in light of recent allegations brought forward against Alex Jurado. Transcript: 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 healthy to get involved in gossip of who did and said various things, but there are some important reasons. I think this particular set of allegations are ones that I sh...

Joe explains how the early Church Fathers understood the Eucharist, and demonstrates how immensely powerful the Paschal meal in bringing us to eternal life. Transcript: 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’s incredible. Yes, Joe, I agree with you. The early Christians were convinced that the Eucharist was key to our rising from the dead. And at first blush, that ...

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. Transcript: 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 just go around saying, I believe that if I’m holy when I die, I’ll become a God or I’ll become God. Many people’s heresy alarm is just going...

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. Transcript: 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 dangerous misreading of scripture is leading some influential Christians to try to go to Israel and the United States into starting World War iii. Now, the theology at ...

Joe replies to a reply to a reply….yes this is true. Transcript: 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 agreeing with Gavin on something CLIP: I’d like to try to maintain a positive relationship with Joe. I like Joe, I’d like to have a good relationship. HeR...

Joe replies to a reply to a reply….yes this is true. Transcript: 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 agreeing with Gavin on something CLIP: I’d like to try to maintain a positive relationship with Joe. I like Joe, I’d like to have a good relationship. HeR...

Joe responds to the recent conversation between Gavin Ortlund, Javier Perdomo and Cleave to Antiquity about the integrity of the Protestant canon of Scripture. Transcript: 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 shorter than Orthodox Bibles, and there’s a lot of debate about this and it matters a lot to know if we’ve got the right Bible. And I want to look particularly...

Joe explains the disagreements between Christians on Church governance, and explores how the Bible and the Early Church thought the Church should be governed. Transcript: 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 course they can’t all be right. Catholics and Orthodox have a clear answer. The Bishop is in charge of his diocese, but Protestants don’t seem to have o...

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…