Shameless Popery

Catholic conversions are SURGING this year! But does that mean we’re in a revival in the US? The numbers are a little more nuanced than you may first expect…
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and I’ve got a lot of exciting news for you, not least of which is we’re ending the season of Lent and entering the season called Trudiwum, the shortest season on the church’s calendar. Fun fact, it’s the three holiest days of the year. It begins with tonight, Holy Thursday, the mass of the Lord’s Supper, and it’s g...

Joe explains the importance of the Sign of Jonah named by Jesus in Matthew 16, and how it relates to Holy Week.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I’ve got two very exciting pieces of news to share with you before I get started on today’s episode. Number one, this time next week, we should have the debate with Doug Wilson that I just did. It should be live and up and you should be able to watch it in its entirety. I will also have an episode that’s basically a version of my opening statement like I normally do. And then you can kind o...

Joe dissects a poorly written, AI-sourced article from X that paints a laughably inaccurate picture of American Catholicism and Catholic Answers specifically.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and it’s not every day that as an apologist for Catholic Answers, I find our work called out in a piece shared by a city and US Senator, but this week I had that unique experience. So Senator Ted Cruz shared a piece by a Twitter user called Insurrection Barbie, and it’s an article, it’s over 8,000 words long, called The Long Game and the Conser...

Joe explains how the 10 plagues of Egypt in Exodus was a direct judgement against the false gods the Egyptians were worshipping.
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, and you probably know the basic story of the tin plagues and the Exodus. God sends Moses to Pharaoh to tell him-
CLIP:
Let my people go.
Joe:
Pharaoh, of course, refuses, and so God sends a series of tin plagues, ultimately leading to the death of the firstborn children of man beast alike. Only at this point does Pharaoh relent? The Israelites are freed. But that’s just the surface of ...

Joe sits down today with Anna Sutton and chats finding your Catholic Wife, everyday apologetics and a lot more!
Transcript:
Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer here to have a cup of Joe with my friend, Anna Sutton. Anna, welcome.
Anna:
Thank you. It’s so exciting to be here.
Joe:
And of course, as always, metal Mike. Mike, welcome.
Mike:
Good morning.
Joe:
I have to make an immediate disclaimer despite the name, Cup of Joe, which is centered around having a coffee and a conversation. Today, I’m fighting off a cold. I thought I’d infect Anna in pers...