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Shameless Popery is a witty, entertaining podcast that informs you about your Catholic faith and equips you to better explain Catholicism especially to Protestant or atheist friends.
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#09 Why Care What Leviticus Says About Homosexuality? - Joe Heschmeyer
Leviticus 18:22 condemns same-sex activity. But who cares? After all, Leviticus condemns things like eating shrimp. So is there any legitimate reason to accept parts of Leviticus as still binding, while treating other parts as obsolete?
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Joe Heschmeyer:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery, I’m Joe Heschmeyer. I want to talk today about the old law and what its role is for Christians. Is the Old Testament law still binding, the Law of Moses? So, historically people say there’s 6…
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Jan 19, 2023
#08 The Biggest Mistakes Apologists Make - Joe Heschmeyer
What are the biggest mistakes that would-be Catholic apologists make? Joe Heschmeyer sits down with apologist Trent Horn to talk about what NOT to do
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Joe Heschmeyer:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer, Catholic Answers. I’m here with my friend and colleague from Catholic Answers, Trent Horn.
Trent Horn:
Thank you.
Joe Heschmeyer:
You may know him from the Counsel of Trent podcast or his books or his speaking appearances. And my exposure to Trent was originally …
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Jan 12, 2023
#07 The Problem With Taking The Bible Literally - Joe Heschmeyer
Should we take the Bible literally? How did the earliest Christians take it? And how can we tell when the authors are and aren’t speaking literally?
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Welcome to Shameless Popery. I want to explore a potentially hot button issue today, the question of taking the Bible literally. So I know a lot of people pride themselves on being biblical literalists. And I know some people have a problem with Christianity because they say, “How can you take the Bible literally? …
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Jan 5, 2023
#06 Who Can Forgive Sins? - Joe Heschmeyer
How can Catholic priests claim to forgive sins? Doesn’t the Bible teach that “only God can forgive sins”?
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Hi, and welcome to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Today I want to explore sacramental confession, the idea of confessing your sins to a priest, and particularly I want to address a really common objection that I’ve heard that is in one sense, a biblical objection that only God can forgive sins.
Now I think this is an important objecti…
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Dec 29, 2022
#05 Development of Doctrine and St. Vincent of Lerins - Joe Heschmeyer
These days, St. Vincent of Lérins is a largely-forgotten Saint and Church Father. But his insights into how we understand both the role of tradition and the “Development of Doctrine” are important for Christians today to seriously grapple with.
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Hi and welcome to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. And today I want to talk about a 5th century French monk by the name is St. Vincent of Lerins. Now, as you might have guessed from that name, he’s a Frenc…
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Dec 22, 2022
#04 Does Christmas Have Pagan Origins? - Joe Heschmeyer
Each December, as we approach Christmas, there are articles proclaiming that the “real reason” we celebrate Christmas on December 25th is because of pagan holidays. So is Christmas based on the pagan feast of Saturnalia? Or is it based on the feast of Sol Invictus? And if not either of these, how did Christians end up celebrating Christmas on December 25th?
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Dec 15, 2022
#03 The True Meaning of the Word “Church” - Joe Heschmeyer
The word “Church” means a lot of different things to different people. But what does the word mean in its biblical context? And what are the common ways that we misuse it today?
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Hi, and welcome to Shameless Popery. This is Joe Heschmeyer. I wanted to talk today about the church. What does the Bible say The church is? This is a big issue that Christians often either don’t think about or disagree about pretty strongly.
Particularly I want to look at six bibli…
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Dec 8, 2022
#02 The Radical Nature of the Reformation - Joe Heschmeyer
Did Martin Luther intend to break with the 16th century Church? And if so, was that necessarily a bad thing? What we can learn from history… and the game show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”!
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Hi. Welcome to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Today I want to talk to you about the radical nature of the Reformation, and the reason I want to talk about this is because there’s a popular idea these days, particularly among Protestants, even among some…
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Dec 1, 2022
#01 The Bible in the Time of Jesus - Joe Heschmeyer
Did the Jews at the time of Jesus know which books belonged in the Old Testament? Here are the basic historical and biblical errors that Protestant apologists like James White keep making.
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Joe:
Welcome back to Shameless Popery. I’m Joe Heschmeyer. Today I want to talk about the Bible, and particularly I want to talk about the Bible in Jesus’s day. Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever thought about this, but these days we’ve got mass produced Bibles tha…
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Nov 22, 2022
#00 Shameless Popery Trailer - Joe Heschmeyer
Welcome to the Shameless Popery podcast hosted by Catholic Answers apologist, Joe Heschmeyer. New episodes release weekly starting on December 1.
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