Catholic Answers LIVE
Catholic Answers Live, hosted by Cy Kellett, is a daily, two-hour radio program dedicated to Catholic apologetics and evangelization. According to listener surveys, it is a runaway favorite on Catholic stations across America.
As a call-in program, Catholic Answers Live connects listeners to prominent leaders in the Church today—including scholars, nuns, priests, bishops, and cardinals—and touches on every aspect of our lives as Christians. You'll hear discussions on just about everything relating to the Church: doctrinal controversies, family concerns, social issues, evangelization, ethics…you name it!
Catholic Answers Live airs every Monday through Friday from 6-8 PM Eastern (3-4 PM Pacific) on over 360 AM and FM stations in the United States, Sirius Satellite Radio channel 130, and through the Internet at catholic.com. If you can't listen live, you can subscribe to our podcast or download individual shows from our MP3 archive.
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
18:12 – What’s your perspective on how to respond to people in the prolife movement who say that the adoption system is broken?
23:40 – I’m in my 60’s, what can I do at my age?
33:20 – My daughter is adopted and has a wound of rejection. Do you have advice on how to help her?
41:10 – I’m an adoptee and have worked in the Juvenile justice system. The courts have a program called Court Appointed Special Advocates that helps as well.
44:56 – Are there foster care opportunities for medically fragile infants?
49:05 – How can adoption be made more of a first choice instead of second choice?
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Questions Covered:
04:45 – The scandals of the Church keep me away. Why did they reinstate Fr. Rupnik?
12:08 – I was raised protestant and am now Anglican. Sacraments and works are my stumbling blocks.
20:38 – All my social and business life is wrapped around Protestantism. It would take a lot to untangle myself.
30:39 – I’m having a hard time figuring out what teachings are infallible while going through the Catechism. This isn’t very clear in the Church.
42:31 – I’m impressed with the claim of apostolic succession. According to the Orthodox, apostolic succession was interrupted under Charlemagne in Catholicism.
47:16 – The Catholic Church says I have to prove that my divorce was legal? I don’t think that’s right but I am convinced that Catholicism is right.
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Questions Covered:
06:58 – Does Jesus have a soul? What’s the difference between a soul and a spirit?
16:12 – How would I respond to the argument that the Eucharist is symbolic while the person is using John 6 as evidence for this claim?
24:12 – I heard 1 Cor. 11:27-29 is no longer read at mass. Why is that?
32:20 – How can I get my infant baptized? There seems to be a lot of red tape.
37:15 – How does the Church know when a relic is authentic?
42:49 – Is there a need for us in heaven? If so, would that make heaven incomplete without us?
46:56 – Before mass begins at my parish, we are instructed to greet each other in the name of Jesus. Are we supposed to call each other Jesus?
49:17 – Why can’t the Church just baptize a teen now and have to wait till Easter?
52:21 – How would you debate sola scriptura using the bible?
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Questions Covered:
03:20 – Is everything stated at a council infallible?
11:13 – How can I be a faithful Catholic at a Catholic university where it’s not encouraged?
18:57 – Both the Parable of the talents in Matthew and parable of the pounds in Luke 19 read the same. Can you compare and contrast the meaning between those two?
24:40 – Why does the Catechism describe purgatory as a place of punishment instead of a place of healing?
38:00 – When Jesus sent the apostles out two by two, do we know where they went?
43:50 – How long does a plenary indulgence last after you receive it?
49:45 – How would we explain relics to a non-Catholic?
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Questions Covered:
02:50 – Could you explain why the virgin birth is not a logical contradiction?
07:02 – If you reject the idea of bilocation, what about Padre Pio?
14:30 – I’m an Atheist because of slavery in the bible. How can people of faith rationalize it?
18:06 – Rev. 20 What is the Church’s position on the Millennial reign referred to in Revelation 20?
22:51 – If you evangelize someone with invincible ignorance, are you putting them at risk of going to hell?
31:18 – Are former Catholics who left the Church for Protestantism condemned to hell?
35:04 – If worship is offering sacrifice, then do we not worship Jesus because we don’t offer a sacrifice to him?
37:26 – Did Jesus breathe on the apostles or were the tongues of fire at Pentecost? Comparing the accounts of John and Acts?
43:32 – Does God have accidents in the Aristotelian sense?
47:50 – Wouldn’t Jn 19:25 prove that the brothers of Jesus were actually extended relatives?
51:12 – Can you share some philosophically based resources for talking to Protestant friends and family on the difference between venerating saints rather than worshiping them?
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