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#228 So about the Catholic Bishops’ Immigration Message… Nov 27, 2025

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Joe tackles the recent message by the USCCB on US immigration and deportations, and the response from Boarder Czar Tom Homan. Transcript: JOE: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to talk about a contentious issue. What is a good Christian position on immigration? And I think it’s timely to talk about this on Thanksgiving for a couple of reasons. Number one, Thanksgiving is in many ways a story of people coming into the new world and these immigrants to a new country, to a new world were protected by the native population, the wampanoags. And had t...

#227 The Best Arguments Against Purgatory (and why they’re wrong) Nov 25, 2025

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Joe examines NT Wright’s robust argument against Purgatory, and why it’s incorrect. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Poperyu. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I wanted to look at some of the strongest arguments against the Catholic doctrine of purgatory, and I want to give a particular attention to the objections raised by the well-regarded Anglican theologian int Wright. Now, some of his objections are ones that are going to be familiar to anybody who’s debated purgatory, but others are ones that I hadn’t really heard before and I think Wright actually makes a re...

#226 Why The Book of Mormon is America’s Quran Nov 20, 2025

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Joe examines a common argument that LDS and Muslims share over their respect holy books, the Book of Mormon and the Quran. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to address a popular argument I’ve heard both Muslim and Mormon apologists make for why we should believe the Book of Mormon or the Quran is inspired scripture. And the argument goes something like this, don’t the founders Joseph Smith and Muhammad were not smart enough, educated enough, brilliant enough to have come up with these incredible works on their own. You loo...

#225 Will Rome Fall to Modernism? (Orthodox Response) Nov 18, 2025

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Today, Joe examines the claim that the Catholic Church has changed positions to fit with the times, while Eastern Orthodoxy has remained the same since Christ founded the Church. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to respond to a specific criticism. I’ve heard from some orthodox against Catholicism that Catholicism is guilty of changing and developing unlike unchanging orthodoxy. And the argument goes, the Catholic church is out here changing the mass and changing her moral teachings to look more like current times unlike orthodoxy, whi...

#224 Ranking the Best And Worst Catholic Dioceses in America Nov 13, 2025

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Joe unpacks a new article that evaluated the “spiritual fruitfulness” of all the dioceses in the US. The results will surprise you! Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to take a deep dive in the numbers to see where we find America’s most fruitful diocese, where we find America’s least fruitful diocese and why? Now, if you know me, you might’ve noticed by now on Thursdays, I like to do a longer episode, and I often like to do a little bit of a deep dive. Sometimes it’s on the Bible or theology or philosophy ...

#223 Does Luke 2 DISPROVE Mary’s Sinlessness? - Joe Heschmeyer Nov 11, 2025

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Joe dissects the argument that the Presentation at the Temple in Luke 2 is proof that Mary sinned, because she had to make a "sin offering."

#222 Did The Vatican Just REVERSE Its View On Mary? Nov 06, 2025

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Joe reviews the Vatican’s latest document on Mary, “Mater Populi Fidelis.” Some Catholics are concerned that age-old titles of the Blessed Virgin (Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix) are being banned. Is that actually the case? Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to explore some controversial Marian titles and the Vatican’s recent intervention into whether we should use these kind of terms or not. And the two in particular I want to focus on are the terms whether we should call Mary Co-Redemptrix and whether we should call her Me...

#221 Gavin, “Quote-Mining,” and The Didache… - Joe Heschmeyer Nov 04, 2025

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Joe replies to Gavin’s video examining his position on the Didache and it’s scholarship, as it applies to the Papacy. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I have to apologize in advance. I’m losing my voice a little bit, so this may be a little raspier than usual, but I wanted to reply to Dr. G Orland’s recent video about bishops in the early church and a controversy over the meaning of the did decay. So does the earliest Christian evidence disprove Catholicism on the papacy or does it actually disprove the belief many Protesta...

#220 5 Hilarious Ironies of Reformation Day - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 30, 2025

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Joe highlights a few ironic things that some Protestants do when they celebrate Reformation Day. Transcript: Joe: What’s actually happening in the Reformation is no less dark. It’s still celebrating sin only. Now it’s the sin of schism. It’s less spooky maybe, but it’s not less sinful. Thesis number 25 says that the power which the Pope has in general over purgatory corresponds to the power which any bishop or curate has in a particular way in his own diocese. And per, I don’t know of a lot of Protestants who would agree with that. If you’re imagining ...

#219 Catholic Apologist Confronts Fr. Moses - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 28, 2025

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Fr. Moses McPherson, an Orthodox priest, had released a few videos explaining his problems with Catholicism. Joe gives his response. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and one of you recently asked in the comments if I would respond to some attacks on the Catholic Church made by a Russian Orthodox priest in YouTuber. Father Moses McPherson. Now if you’ve never heard of him, father Moses is a Protestant convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. He was originally ordained as a priest of the Orthodox Church of America, but left that for some reason to become Rus...

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