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;
12:34 – I had an addiction and I surrendered it to the Lord.
21:52 – I’m a huge fan of CIR!
29:15 – I heard the 12 steps don’t have the best success rate. Does CIR have any stats to show for their success rate?
31:47 – In March I’ll be 49 years sober. I can’t consume the host at mass and only take a sip from the chalice. What do you recommend I do?
36:26 – Is Marijuana a gateway drug?
40:55 – My devout Catholic friend is in denial about her alcoholism. How can I approach her to seek help?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
02:43 – Why didn’t God just open back up the gates of heaven after the Fall? Were Adam and Eve meant to live forever?
13:36 – How can sabbath be symbolic in Genesis if he speaks of it elsewhere as a literal 24 hour period?
21:36 – What’s the Church’s position on boycotting organizations like Disney or Target?
31:04 – What is the nature of the resurrected body of Jesus? He was able to eat but also bilocated and other things
36:08 – Is everything that the Church requires us to believe found in the Catechism?
41:08 – My Lutheran friend says that the Lutherans that the Catholics dialogue with are Satanists. What is the Church’s view on this?
48:53 – I want to become Catholic but I have a hard time letting go of Eastern Orthodoxy. How do I give up the Divine Liturgy when it feels like a step down?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
05:12 – My neighbor is passing away and I think she is Catholic. I don’t know her very well. How would I approach her?
07:45 – Did the stories in the Old Testament actually happen?
15:25 – What Jewish sources are there for Mary and Joseph’s legal betrothal?
20:35 – During Mass when the priest or altar server crosses the altar they look at the altar and bow, shouldn’t they be looking at the tabernacle?
28:44 – Can someone actually sell their souls to the devil? If so, can they get it back?
36:22 – What do Catholics believe about salvation by grace alone vs with works?
46:50 – I’m starting OCIA. How do I respond to the claim that I cannot convert because I was born Jewish and will forever be Jewish?
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Questions Covered:
05:00 – How do we have free will in heaven and are also prevented from sinning?
11:47 – Can I consume the Eucharist Saturday vigil, and Sunday Morning and Sunday afternoon?
17:32 – Can a person who was in civil marriage that is now divorcing, receive communion?
22:39 – Can the devil be present in a chapel where Jesus is present?
29:16 – Is the Pope metaphorically the bishop of Rome or is he actually in charge of the diocese of Rome?
34:11 Can a child be baptized if only one parent wants them baptized?
43:01 – Why does the eucharistic prayer say “The blood is poured out for many” and not all?
46:57 – Why do we worship on Sundays? Where do we find that?
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Questions Covered:
31:45 – How do we present veils as empowering?
42:48 – The rise of Catholic women biblical scholars has been such a great contribution.
47:36 – I would say that the blessed mother was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection, not Mary Magdalene.
48:40 – How do you think Catholic theology will develop around womanhood?
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