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#218 New Priests Are MORE ORTHODOX Than Ever, but there’s a catch… - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 23, 2025

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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...

#217 Responding to Gavin Ortlund’s “The Papacy is Not From God” - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 21, 2025

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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...

#216 Why Dilexi Te is an Awesome Document - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 16, 2025

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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...

#215 Is Pope Leo a Liberal? - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 14, 2025

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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 ...

#214 Does This New Archbishop Disprove Anglicanism? - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 09, 2025

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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...

#213 My Response to Redeemed Zoomer’s “14 Catholic Contradictions” - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 07, 2025

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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...

#212 I Was Wrong (Worse: Trent Horn Was Right…) - Joe Heschmeyer Oct 02, 2025

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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...

#211 The ONLY Response to Islam You’ll Ever Need - Joe Heschmeyer Sep 30, 2025

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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...

#210 Read Church History, Cease To Be Protestant - Joe Heschmeyer Sep 25, 2025

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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 ...

#211 How I Would Share Christianity With a Trans Person - Joe Heschmeyer Sep 23, 2025

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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...

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