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  • #248 Pope John Paul I Was Awesome, Actually…

    #248 Pope John Paul I Was Awesome, Actually…
    Feb 10 2026
    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. Transcript: 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 CLIP: The Smiling Pope albi...
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  • #247 Are Christians Just Sexual Hypocrites?

    #247 Are Christians Just Sexual Hypocrites?
    Feb 7 2026
    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. Transcript: 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...
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  • #246 Why Do Christians Worship On Sunday?

    #246 Why Do Christians Worship On Sunday?
    Feb 3 2026
    Joe looks at the position of Sabbitarians, and their claim that Emperor Constantine instituted worship on Sundays. Transcript: 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...
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  • #245 3 Things Christians Should Admit Rhett Got Right

    #245 3 Things Christians Should Admit Rhett Got Right
    Jan 29 2026
    Joe looks at three takeaways from Rhett McLaughlin’s deconstruction. Transcript: 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,...
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  • #244 Can You Prove The Bible From The Words of Jesus?

    #244 Can You Prove The Bible From The Words of Jesus?
    Jan 27 2026
    Joe looks at several ways Protestants try to justify their canon and Scripture, and how these standards contradict their canon. Transcript: 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...
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  • #243 Learn To Spot This Common Logical Fallacy (Counterfeit Argument)

    #243 Learn To Spot This Common Logical Fallacy (Counterfeit Argument)
    Jan 22 2026
    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. Transcript: 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...
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  • #242 Do St. Paul’s Words DISPROVE the Catholic Eucharist?

    #242 Do St. Paul’s Words DISPROVE the Catholic Eucharist?
    Jan 20 2026
    Joe counters the common Protestant objection to the Catholic Eucharist, citing that Paul calls the Eucharist “bread,” so the meal must only be bread. 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And while Catholics and Orthodox believe that the bread and wine in the Eucharist become the body and blood of Jesus Christ, many Protestants argue that the Lord’s supper is symbolic and the bread and wine remain bread and wine. And for many Protestants in this second camp, they’re going to point to the words of St. Paul in ...
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  • #241 Proving The Catholic Priesthood Is Biblical (Response to Needgod.net)

    #241 Proving The Catholic Priesthood Is Biblical (Response to Needgod.net)
    Jan 15 2026
    Needgod.net released a video listing 10 reasons not to convert to Catholicism. Joe focuses in on #6, The Catholic Priesthood, and shows that it is indeed the biblical priesthood instituted by Christ. Transcript: Joe: Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer and many Protestants believe that the Catholic priesthood is unbiblical, that it’s not something that is authentic to Christianity. And this was recently raised by Ryan of needgod.net as one of his 10 reasons not to convert to the Catholic Church. Now, I might at another point in time address the other nine reasons, ...
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