Shameless Popery

Joe breaks down the SSPX schism, the common arguments used to consecrate more bishops, and how the Church has historically handled these situations. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I want to try to make sense of the current SSPX situation. The Vatican says that the bishops of the Society of St. Pius 10th and not only the bishops have just gone into...

Joe reviews the recent debate between RZ and Doug Wilson on Schism, and gives the Catholic response. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I wanted to review a thoughtful debate that recently happened over on the channel Reformation Red Pill between Redeem Zoomer and Pastor Doug Wilson. The subject of the debate was on the sin of schism. Now, particularly...

Joe responds to a few questions Daniel Greene had after reading the Bible for the first time! Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I want to introduce you to Daniel Green, an agnostic YouTuber who decided to read through the entire Bible for the first time. Daniel: Hello, everyone. I feel like I’ve kind of gotten away with something somehow. What d...

Joe responds to common objections to alcohol that some Christians make, and cites history and the Bible to show that moderate drinking is ok. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Is it okay for followers of Jesus Christ to drink alcohol even in moderation? Broadly speaking, Christians fall into two camps. Those who say moderate drinking is okay as long as yo...

Joe examines Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, why it’s a huge problem in modern society, and how this applies to the recent Jesse Ridgeway news. Transcript: Joe: This week, a YouTuber named Jesse Ridgeway announced that he and his wife had decided that she would abort their child because the baby had down syndrome. Once they saw the size of the cross being laid before them, they decided it woul...

Joe reviews the backlash against the Just War portion of Pope Leo’s “Magnifica Humanitas.” Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to talk about the fight over just war that’s being fought right now in the aftermath of Pope Leo’s new and cyclical. I want to start with a little bit of context. On Memorial Day, Pope Leo rel...

Wes Huff’s video “6 reasons why I’m not Roman Catholic” has started quite the conversation! Here’s Joe’s response to Wes (lovingly, of course). Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and on Thursday, Wes Huff released a video called Six Reasons Why I’m No Roman Catholic. Now, I am grateful to him for making the video f...

Joe breaks down why Christ Is King has Jewish roots. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to talk about the phrase Christ is king. I love the phrase, but I’m also aware that people online sometimes use it today in ways that are regarded as and often meant as anti-Jewish. Now I know when I say that there’s already a segment of you who in...

Bible in Context is an Instagram page that regularly replies to Catholic creators, and has replied to several clips of Joe. Today Joe responds back! Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Many of you may be familiar with the Instagram account Bible in context. It’s run by a guy by the name of Patrick O’Brien, and he’s built a large following...

Joe reviews Christopher Cloos’ new argument in favor of Sola Scriptura, the Attribute Inscripturation Thesis (AIT). Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and many of you know I recently debated Doug Wilson on Sola Scriptura. If you haven’t seen that debate, you can check it out in the description below. But the debate prompted a lot of good conver...

Joe reviews the recent debate on Capturing Catholicism between Ethan Muse and Sean of Anglican Aesthetics over the apparitions at Fatima. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and you all voted overwhelmingly for me to do a debate review of Sean Luke versus Ethan Muse on the question of whether the alleged Mary and Apparitions and Fatima were really Mary or w...

Joe and Brayden from The Catechumen review Redeemed Zoomer’s “critique” of St. Frances de Sales. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I’m excited to share a really good argument from one of my favorite saints responding to a popular YouTuber. I mean, obviously that’s not what he was originally doing, but along the way, I&#82...

Joe examines how Trump’s blasphemous meme actually points to a more serious problem spiritually in our culture today, and it’s a problem that most of us struggle with. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and this Easter season has been a wild one for American Catholics, particularly in terms of the clash of church and state. On Easter Sunday mor...

Joe’s opening statement in his debate against Doug Wilson on Sola Scriptura. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and happy Easter. I suspect many of you are familiar with the Protestant pastor, Doug Wilson. He’s often been described as a Christian nationalist. He recently made the news for arguing that the law shouldn’t permit Catholics to...

Catholic conversions are SURGING this year! But does that mean we’re in a revival in the US? The numbers are a little more nuanced than you may first expect… Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I’ve got a lot of exciting news for you, not least of which is we’re ending the season of Lent and entering the season called Trudiwum, t...

Joe explains the importance of the Sign of Jonah named by Jesus in Matthew 16, and how it relates to Holy Week. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I’ve got two very exciting pieces of news to share with you before I get started on today’s episode. Number one, this time next week, we should have the debate with Doug Wilson that I just did. It sh...

Joe dissects a poorly written, AI-sourced article from X that paints a laughably inaccurate picture of American Catholicism and Catholic Answers specifically. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and it’s not every day that as an apologist for Catholic Answers, I find our work called out in a piece shared by a city and US Senator, but this week I had t...

Joe explains how the 10 plagues of Egypt in Exodus was a direct judgement against the false gods the Egyptians were worshipping. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and you probably know the basic story of the tin plagues and the Exodus. God sends Moses to Pharaoh to tell him- CLIP: Let my people go. Joe: Pharaoh, of course, refuses, and so God sends a seri...

Joe sits down today with Anna Sutton and chats finding your Catholic Wife, everyday apologetics and a lot more! Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer here to have a cup of Joe with my friend, Anna Sutton. Anna, welcome. Anna: Thank you. It’s so exciting to be here. Joe: And of course, as always, metal Mike. Mike, welcome. Mike: Good morning. Joe: I have...

Joe looks at competing theories about the story of Noah’s Ark and other similar flood myths. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I want to ask three questions today about Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. Question number one, did it really happen or is it just a retelling of older Babylonian stories? Question number two, if it did really happe...

Having a chat with Austin Suggs from Gospel Simplicity about Catholicism, Orthodoxy and his personal faith journey. Transcript: Mike: Go ahead. Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, here to have a cup of Joe with my friend Austin Suggs of Gospel Simplicity. Austin, thank you so much for being with us. Austin: It is my pleasure. I just looked at, I don’t know if thi...

Joe responds to the common claim that the Catholic Church are the modern day Pharisees. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and a common CLIP: Accusation against Catholics is that we’re modern day Pharisees. I think Pharisees and Roman Catholic leaders have a lot in common nowadays. Yeah. The reformers chose to follow the Bible while the Jesuits chose...

Joe and Isaac Hess discuss Joe’s last appearance on Pints With Aquinas, that created some controversy among the LDS community. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I’m here to have a cup of Joe with my friend Isaac Hess. Isaac, thanks for coming on. Isaac: Yeah, thanks for having me. Joe: Isaac, we’re going to talk a little bit about Mo...

Joe responds to “Catholicism Exposed: These Doctrines Contradict The Word Of God,” a video from Ashley Hays. He sets the record straight on generations of poor scholarship about paganism and Christianity. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and today I want to look at a video recently made by Ashley Hays critiquing what she claims Catholicism tea...

Joe, Mike and Vanessa tackle the question “Do We Need Go to Be Good People?” Joe: Alright. Alright. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Meyer and I’m having a cup of Joe with Vanessa Parrish. That one Catholic girl as well as my producer metal. Mike, good morning to both of you. Mike: Good morning. Morning, Joe. Joe: Alright, well why don’t we do this. Mike, do...