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:
05:29 – Is there ever a circumstance where a person can perform a baptism without water?
10:50 – How is it just to create eternal souls without their consent and then punish them when they don’t do right?
18:40 – How do we square the seeming contradiction in Luke 23:43 where the thief will be with Jesus in paradise on that day but Jesus didn’t ascend to heaven for another 40 days?
29:17 – What’s the difference between Anglican and Catholic?
31:39 – With the transgender issue becoming more common, what things are being done in seminaries to ensure the candidates joining are truly men?
34:26 – Who started the teaching that priests had to be celibate?
42:24 – What is the distinction between blessing a marriage and blessing a same sex couple?
46:18 – How long has the Church approved annulments? Are the children of these marriages illegitimate?
48:23 – What does the Church say about asexuality?
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Questions Covered:
15:41 – Are there people at St. Paul Street Evangelization who could give talks at parishes and maybe start a chapter in my local area? adam@stpaulse.com
22:39 – What would be a good way of starting a conversation about faith with an agnostic?
38:43 – I’m a revert and I’m struggling to figure out how to share it with friends who are not believers. How do I engage with my friends who are part of the LGBT community?
47:49 – I’m a Protestant. I do exactly what you do and the way I would word it is that the Holy Spirit is in charge of the outcome, we are just required to share the message.
52:09 – I ran into a St. Paul Street Evangelization in the street and it changed my life.
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Questions Covered:
02:43 – Is there a point of no return in this life when it comes to salvation?
14:34 – If God wasn’t letting out his wrath on Jesus on the cross, then why was there an earthquake and why did it go dark?
18:08 – How can I prove the Immaculate Conception using only the bible?
29:44 – Is it a sin to take communion if you are divorced and remarried?
43:01 – If same sex marriage is sin, why does the Catholic Church bless same sex marriages?
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Questions Covered:
04:20 – Did the Church ever teach that purgatory entailed retributive punishment?
13:17 – If the Apocrypha is scripture, why is it called the Deuterocanon?
19:45 – How concerned should I be for the salvation of our protestant brothers and sisters who don’t baptize their kids?
25:02 – My granddaughter says she’s engaged to a woman. How should I approach this?
39:45 – Did Mary get additional confirmation that Jesus was God when she visited Elizabeth?
46:33 – If the Last Supper was the Passover meal, where does Jesus’ saying to consume his blood come in?
50:13 – How close is the idea of Prima Scriptura to Church teaching?
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Questions Covered:
04:10 – I get a lot of slack for being a Freemason. What’s the problem with it and being Catholic?
12:56 – What are the classifications of relics and what happens when you touch a prayer card up to a relic?
18:16 – What’s the difference in the way Catholics and Orthodox view baptism and original sin?
24:28 – I’m Catholic but I have a lot of questions about the faith. Can I still receive communion if I have doubts?
33:27 – Catholics often appeal to Mary being “full of grace” and being “blessed among women” as reasons to believe in the Immaculate Conception. With that in mind, is it also logical to conclude that John the Baptist is also conceived without sin?
44:33 – Mt.1:25. Joseph did not know his wife until she had Jesus. Does this mean that Joseph and Mary had relations after the birth of Jesus?
48:45 – What’s your advice on how to talk to my Pentecostal family members who are just starting to warm up to Catholicism but can’t let go of that style of worship?
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