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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!

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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”?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.