Shameless Popery

Why do Christians believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead? After all, there are several other possibilities: (1) that Jesus didn’t REALLY die; (2) that Jesus’ Body wasn’t really buried in the Tomb, but was left up on the Cross to be eaten by animals; (3) that the biblical language of “resurrection” was just meant as a metaphor; (4) that the story of the Resurrection is a later Christian legend; or (5) that the Apostles were knowingly lying about the Resurrection. So what’s the case against all of those denials of the Resurrection… and…

How does Good Friday “work” exactly? Is the Father pouring out His Wrath upon the Son? Or is there a better way of making sense of Calvary?

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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So if you’re watching this on the day it’s released, it is holy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, a few days before Easter Sunday. And so happy holy Thursday. It may not be holy Thursday for you. It’s actually not holy Thursday yet for me. But i…

The argument from science is that science itself isn't possible without God. Here's how it works.…

The Lord’s Prayer or “Our Father,” is the most famous prayer in Christian, given to us by Jesus himself. But did you know that there’s a deeply Catholic meaning to this prayer, in what it reveals about formal prayer, about the Church, about the Eucharist, and about the impossibility of “salvation by faith alone”?

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Hi, welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So today I want to explore the Lord’s prayer that Jesus gives u…

What's the argument from desire, and how can we effectively use it in evangelization?…

Most Protestants believe that Mary *wasn’t* a perpetual virgin. After all, doesn’t the Bible say that Joseph and Mary remained celibate only “until” the birth of Jesus? And doesn’t the New Testament describe the “brothers” of Jesus? So what are the biblical reasons Catholics and Orthodox are convinced that Mary WAS a perpetual virgin?

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Hi, and welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer of Catholic Answers and I want to…

One objection that the atheist Emerson Green makes against Christianity is that there’s no way to harmonize the merciful God of Christianity, with God in the Old Testament seemingly commanding genocide. So how do we make sense of this apparent contradiction?

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Hey, and welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So today I want to talk about whether God commands genocide in the Old Testament, and if he does, what do we make of that? So I’ll tell you how I got here. An atheist, former Christian by the name of Emerson Green was responding to a Capturing Chri…

What are the three spiritual traps that St. John warns against in 1 John 2:16, and how exactly are they combatted by the three spiritual weapons Jesus gives in Matthew 6 (prayer, fasting, and almsgiving), and by the three evangelical counsels Jesus gives in Matthew 19 (poverty, chastity, and obedience)?

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Hi, and welcome back to Shameless Pope. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So normally this podcast drops on Thursday, but as I was looking at the calendar, I realized Lent snuck up o…

One of the most common objections to the idea of hell is that it’s incompatible with the idea that God is both all-powerful and all-loving. But is that the case? To answer this, we need to reconsider what we mean about God, heaven and hell, and goodness.

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Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And I want to talk today about one of the hardest topics in Christianity and one of the most controversial, and I think rightly so actually, which is the idea…

A group of Baptist seminary students invited me to speak to them about why I reject the Protestant principle of sola scriptura (that doctrines come from the Bible alone). Here’s what I told them.

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Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. So yesterday I had a really exciting opportunity to speak to a group of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, on the topic of Why I Don’t Believe in Sola Scriptura. It was a student group called Ratio Christ…