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:
04:25 – What is the first thing you look for when you hear an argument for the opposing side?
07:20 – What’s the best way to explain why we need the Marian dogmas, and why Mary plays an important role for Catholics?
13:41 – What is the catholic stance on ghost apparitions? Can you be a faithful catholic and believe in ghosts?
David – 20:55 – Why is the term ‘Christ’ frequently used in place of the name ‘Jesus’? Is not ‘Christ’ a title or a role (i.e., Messiah) rather than a name? Using the term ‘Christ’ seems to diminish Jesus’s full identity as fully man and fully God.
33:39 – Can you (Trent) please comment on what I think is a very underutilized apologetic argument against Protestantism: You can have sola scriptura and the perspicuity of scripture, you can have the epistle of James, you can have sola fide, BUT YOU CAN’T HAVE ALL THREE! And when one falls, they all fall. That’s the protestant three-legged stool.
41:58 – Could you answer why you believe reasonable people disagree? It’s hard to imagine why so many smart people debate topics like the ones you address and seemingly few of them budge. This question can easily be asked in other areas like politics, and science.
48:19 – Can you respond to the atheist “unintelligent design” argument?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
06:55 – What are your thoughts on the apparent contradiction in the policy of the Vatican that says women have to be dressed modestly but it’s filled with naked statues?
14:20 – How should I love someone who has a different viewpoint than I do?
17:59 – How does suffering of living family members affect family members that have passed?
22:50 – Why did Jesus stay at the temple when Mary and Joseph lost him?
31:14 – My daughter in college took a history course that said Hitler was Catholic in order to associate Catholicism with evil. Was he Catholic?
37:11 – What is the role of new miracles if public revelation is closed?
42:42 – How can I counter protestants who say that you need to believe in order to be baptized?
50:30 – If I get my child baptized through the Baptist church, would the Catholic Church be required to accept it?
53:01 – I’m a new Christian. Luke 9:50 and Luke 11:23 seem to contradict on those who are not with us. Can you clarify this for me?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
06:20 – What is the Catholic understanding of imputed righteousness vs infused righteousness?
17:06 – Is it wrong to say praying with the saints instead of praying to the saints?
23:40 – How can I support my nephew who is changing genders from a Catholic perspective?
37:23 – Why do Catholics keep making idols/statues/icons/graven images, when God specifically asked you not to make graven images?
42:37 – How do we know that God hasn’t moved on from the Catholic Church like he did with the Jewish faith?
48:10 – How do we have faith in the current situation in the Holy Land?
52:26 – How come Jesus is from the tribe of Judah and his cousin John was from the tribe of Levi?
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Karlo takes questions from our dropped calls list
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Karlo takes questions from our dropped calls list
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