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.

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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 teaches. If you’re not familiar with her, she’s got more than a hundred thousand followers on YouTube, more than 300,000 on Instagram, more than 600,000 followers on TikTok, and she’s u...

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 you want to explain to everybody how this works? I know this is still a new format for people, and then we will talk about coffee and then kick off the actual theology.

Mike:

Absolutely. Good morning ...

Joe breaks down how Christ and the saints teach us to use fasting, almsgiving and prayer to combat the Triple Concupiscence.

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JOE:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and the season of Lent starts tomorrow. For many Christians, it’s a time to give up chocolate and such, and that’s fine, but it kind of misses the point. I don’t want to have a forgettable lint, and I don’t want your Lent to be forgettable either, because the fact is lint in penance has the power to completely transform our lives. But for it to do that, we need to know wha...

Joe takes audience questions on the common Protestant claim that “Jesus alone is enough.”

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. First of all, apologies for the delay. We’re trying something new. I’m Joe Meyer. I’m joined today by my producer, metal Mike Kupris. Mike, do you want to introduce yourself?

Mike:

Hi, good morning everyone. My name’s Michael Kupris. I am the producer for Shameless Popery and I’ve been working with Joe for about a little over a year now. It’s been really good. It’s been very, very fulfilling. I do some...

Joe takes this opportunity to highlight just how great Pope John Paul I was, and how unfortunate it is that he gets overlooked due to his very short papacy.

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JOE:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and today I want to talk about a pope that doesn’t get a lot of love, doesn’t get a lot of attention. Pope John Paul, the first many of us are maybe dimly aware that he even exists. And if we know anything about him, it’s probably a handful of relatively superficial facts. Like for instance, he liked to smile sometimes

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In late of the latest sex scandal to strike in the Christian online space, Joe examines whether all Christians are hypocrites and if Catholic teaching on sexuality is too high.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to talk about hypocrisy, particularly sexual hypocrisy. As you might have already heard, there’s a scandal that Milo OUIs broke this week involving the right-wing podcaster. Elijah Schaeffer, who it turns out has been seemingly a serial adulterer, and one of the women that he cheated on his wife with is Sarah Stock, who is a Cat...

Joe looks at the position of Sabbitarians, and their claim that Emperor Constantine instituted worship on Sundays.

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JOE:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And why do Christians worship on Sunday? Is it because of something that Jesus did or because of something that Constantine did? In other words, was Sunday chosen because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ or was it chosen as a way of compromising with Roman pagans in the fourth century? You might be convinced you already know the answer to this question, but I hope you’ll give me the opportunity t...

Joe looks at three takeaways from Rhett McLaughlin’s deconstruction.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and I want to do something a little bit different today. If you are like me, there’s a good chance that in the good old days of YouTube you watched a fair amount of Rhett and link, and one of the things about Rhett and Link is that both of them, they kind of oozed evangelical Christianity. It was pretty obvious even though they weren’t super open about it, that these were people who came from a Christian background. And sure enough,...

Joe looks at several ways Protestants try to justify their canon and Scripture, and how these standards contradict their canon.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. How do we know which books belong in the Bible? After all, there are seven Old Testament books that are in Catholic and Orthodox bibles that aren’t in Protestant bibles. So how do we know which Bible is right? One solution I’ve heard goes something like this. We know which books belong in the Old Testament by looking at which books Jesus treated his scripture. In the New Testament...

Joe explains how many apologists from different perspectives fall into the trap of what he coins the “Counterfeit Argument.” Learn how to spot and disarm this common logical fallacy.

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Joe:

Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I want to answer a kind of argument that I hear used to argue against Catholicism, to argue against church councils and the Pope, to argue against Christianity itself, to argue against the Bible, to argue against even the existence of God. And you’ll hear this argument in different forms, sometimes by Protestants, so...