A follow up to his video, “Why Liberal Catholicism Is Dying,” Joe examines the results to a follow up study on priests in America, which results show some good, some bad and some ugly. Transcript: Joe: They interviewed more than a thousand priests. It doesn’t appear they got anyone saying that they were extremely liberal. There is this sea change of orthodoxy coupled with compassion, but that’s the good news. Let’s talk about the bad news. The bad news is young priests are burning out. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to...
Joe responds to some key points raised in Gavin’s video “The Papacy is Not From God.” Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and Dr. Gavin Ortlund just released a video titled The Papacy is Not From God that I think warrants a reply. Now, I should say at the outset, I respect the bluntness of his argument and I hope that he won’t be offended if I answer him in an equally straightforward manner. And second, I think he’s focused on exactly the right question. As I said in my book, Pope Peter, if the doctrine of the papacy is true...
Joe does a deep dive into Pope Leo’s first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to share with you some of the things that struck me about Pope Leo’s new apostolic exportation, dilexi te. Now, I want to say a couple of things at the outset. First, a little bit about what the document is. Second, a little bit about what this is going to be. The first thing to know is that dilexi te is an apostolic exhortation. In other words, it’s not laying out church doctrine per se, the way a papal encyclical...
Many of the faithful in the West are probably wondering whether or not Pope Leo is a liberal pope, given several recent headlines and the release of his first papal document Dilexi Te. Joe gives a thoughtful analysis on why this is the wrong way to look at it. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and Pope Leo just released his first magisterial document, Dielexi Te, an exhortation on Christian Love for the poor. It’s beautiful, rich, filled with quotations from scripture and from the church fathers. And honestly, the 2000 year history of the church ...
The new Archbishop of Canterbury is a woman, and this has caused a crisis in the Anglican Communion. Joe explains the possible outcomes. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and 17 people making up the Crown nominations commission for the Church of England might have made a decision that is going to result in an enormous global schism within the Anglican communion. Perhaps as soon as next year. CLIP: For the first time in nearly 500 years of history, the Church of England has nominated a woman to lead it. Dame Sarah Mulally, the Bishop of London. She̵...
Joe tackles 3 of the supposed “contradictions” addressed by Redeemed Zoomer in his recent video. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and as many of you may already know, Redeemed Zoomer recently released a video where he laid out 14 examples of what he believed were Catholic contradictions. Four of them were claims that he made where the Catholic church he said had contradicted itself and infallible declarations. Now, Trent Horn has already done a fantastic reply looking at all 14 of those, but it’s really hard to do justice to 14 larg...
Joe explains how Trent changed his mind on what is the most important aspect of Mary’s Immaculate Conception and her lifelong sinlessness. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Hesschmeyer In February, 2024, Mark’s one of the greatest tragedies to befall mankind. I was wrong about something and worse, Trent Horn was right. Now, for context here, Trent Horn and I and some other people we’re doing a two day brainstorming retreat, and one of the topics that arose was the idea of Mary’s Sinlessness and why we believe in that as Catholics and Trent...
Joe breaks down the “Islamic Dilemma,” a catch 22 where the Quran says to obey the Gospel and the Torah, but also contradicts both of these books on several major theological and historical points. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and as you probably know, Muslims believe the Quran is divinely revealed scripture and non-Muslims don’t believe this. So how can we know and show which side is right? Well, there’s a simple argument called the Islamic dilemma that seems to settle the question once and for all. It doesn’t prove...
Cleave to Antiquity and Matthew Barrett have recently left Reformed theology for more Apostolic expressions of Christianity. Joe explores why this isn’t a new phenomenon. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to explore two maybe seemingly unrelated conversions today, neither of which interestingly are to Catholicism, but I think you’ll see why I’m still excited about both of them, why I think they might be directionally correct and why I think they have some really important things to say about the future of a movement within ...
Joe shares what parts of Christianity he would emphasize in order to convince a trans person that Christianity is actually true. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to propose a challenge. How do we as Christians present the gospel to people who identify as transgendered? CLIP: You care about other human beings and you don’t want to see injustice, and you don’t want to see oppression of any sort, right? Of course. Okay, so I admire that about you. Don’t trap me, I’m not trapping you. Joe: In one sense, the question is e...
Joe breaks down a talk by J. Budziszewski on how Catholics can use the Natural Law to draw the truth out of people, without them even realizing it is there. This method has completely transformed how Joe approaches apologetics and evangelization. We strongly encourage you to watch the video for yourself and support the original release! Get the “cheat sheet” for the episode with all the main points distilled into one document by subscribing to the Shameless Popery Patreon! Transcript: J.B.: Women used to say things to her like, I know abortion is wrong, but I just can’t have ...
Is there really an epidemic of hate against the trans community? Are delayed “gender affirming surgeries” leading to widespread trans suicides? Are we facing a trans “genocide”? Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I think one of the conversations we’re not doing really well on right now is this debate on transgenderism. CLIP: You cut that out now or you’ll go home in an Joe: Ambulance. Yeah, that seems mildly CLIP: Inappropriate for a political discussion. Joe: There are at least three features of the debate that I think would be surprising to...
The tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk has shaken the nation, and highlights some horrible phenomena manifesting in our political landscape. Joe looks at some of the deeper problems and asks for all to pray for Charlie, his family and the shooter. Transcript: CLIP: I go around universities and have challenging conversations because that’s what is so important to our country is to find our disagreements respectfully. Because when people stop talking, that’s when violence half and violence half and violence Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And I want...
Joe replies to “THE ROSARY || The SHOCKING TRUTH that most people don’t know…” by DLM Christian Lifestyle. He unpacks how a misreading a Scripture can lead to misunderstandings about the rosary. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe, Heschmeyer, and today I want to explore the rosary because the rosary is perhaps the most practiced Catholic devotion outside of mass and the sacraments, and it’s been suggested as part of your regular prayer life by many of the Great Saints people like Padre Pio, Louis de Montfort, Therese of Lisieux, as we...
Joe responds to objections raised in a conversation between Vlad Savchuk, Isaiah Saldivar and Mike Signorelli about relics in the Catholic Church. Transcript: Joe: Even if the entire cross of Jesus was discovered intact, there would be no spiritual value to it. CLIP: I’ve never heard a Protestant just say, the cross is worthless like the cross. If you found it tomorrow fully intact and you knew it was the true cross, it is of no spiritual value. And that strikes me as just so outrageously un-Christian of an attitude to have. Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and...
Joe examines the controversy over “thoughts and prayers” between the left and right, and shows through Church teaching what the correct response is in the aftermath of tragedy. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and in the aftermath of 19 school children being shot, two of them fatally while they attended a school mass at Enunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis. There were outpourings of grief all over. President Trump and Vice President Vance both announced they were monitoring the situation and called for prayers for the victims. But o...
Some Protestants claim that Catholics have declared them “anathema,” which condemns Protestants to hell. But is this true? Joe dives deep to find out. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to cover a potentially sensitive topic today. This question of whether or not Catholics believe that all non-Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox and other non-Catholic Christians, as well as obviously non-Christians, whether we believe they’re all going to hell. And there’s a couple ways I want to approach this. First, this idea that the C...
Joe explains why he wouldn’t convert to Eastern or Oriental Orthodoxy over Catholicism. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I spend a lot of time on this channel responding to objections raised against Catholicism by Protestant apologists or by non-Christians. And I think because of that a significant portion of my audience is actually Orthodox. Now, as a Catholic, I’m very grateful to have you here. We have a lot of areas of agreement as I think the rest of my videos show. I also know though that many of the people watching this channel ...
Are 9 out of 10 Catholics really leaving the Church, as many headlines say? Joe examines the study referenced in these articles and shows how it actually paints a much different picture… Transcript: JOE: Welcome back to Shameless Popery and I want to come back from vacation by addressing what sounds on the surface like horribly bad news. There was a story from Catholic News Agency saying nine in 10 cradle Catholics are leaving the church or have left the church. And it didn’t take long for Protestant channels like Cleve to antiquity to seize upon this. Ben sat down with miles from ...
Joe critiques William Lane Craig’s claims about early Christian disunity on the Eucharist, showing the evidence undermines Craig’s case.
Danny Beaudrie
It's okay Joe, you've been right about a lot of things where Trent Horn was wrong. For example, Trent's book "A case for catholicism" opens with the apocryphal line from Luther "here I stand". I love Trent though!
Bill Sibilla
Can't wait for helpful conversation tips. We face this issue within our family.
Ana Lucía Sequeira Castro
Great episode, Joe. It was an excellent explanation and I think it's not difficult for anyone to understand. Thanks for all your hard work and God bless you.
Ana Lucía Sequeira Castro
Nice. Awesome episode, Joe. Thanks very much.
Ana Lucía Sequeira Castro
I really enjoyed this episode, Joe. It was fun. Usually, people like Mr. Gendron make me feel tired. But your commentary made it super entertaining. Thanks very much for your work. God bless you.