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:
03:13 – How can we respond to Mormons who use Ep. 4:11 and 1 Cor 12:28 to say that the true Church must have modern day apostles?
06:27 – How can the pope grant faculties to SSPX if they are technically not under his jurisdiction? Is it ok to attend masses at SSPV chapels?
12:28 – Can you clarify on the deuterocanonical books and its validity since some Jews accepted them?
18:21 – What are some examples of moral relativism being adopted and failing in the secular world?
21:18 – Would you be Automatically excommunicated if you had a certain belief or doubt but never shared it?
28:40 – Regarding a new theory of purgatory and the detachment from sin. I don’t see how it fits with former papal documents.
40:45 – Can you give a brief overview of the sacrament of marriage and a good resource?
43:43 – When I adore the Eucharist, who or what am I exactly adoring? Is it Jesus on the cross in 33 AD?
49:26 – How do you think these new rules of the supernatural by the Vatican affect approval of miracles for canonization?
52:24 – Why do all Marian apparitions look different? Are they all the same person?
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Questions Covered:
17:50 – Is it necessary to dive into childhood or is it more about exposure?
22:00 – Can a moms feeling of just being overwhelmed actually be anxiety?
34:26 – I’m a middle school teacher. What tips do you have for helping my students through anxiety?
36:45 – I’m so filled with anxiety that I have torn up my skin and have ulcers. I need help in mitigating this experience?
43:00 – How do you deal with anxiety knowing that you’ll always fall to sin?
48:10 – Thought my anxiety would go away after being sober for 4.5 years. How do I deal with it now that it hasn’t gone away?
51:49 – How do you deal with anxieties when you don’t realize you have anxiety until it boils over?
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Questions Covered:
08:25 – How can I approach my wife about her codependency on our daughter and how unhealthy it is?
15:28 – I’m an alcoholic. I just want to share my light bulb moment.
18:12 – What does addiction to lust include?
22:30 – I have an attachment to food. I’m nervous about attending a meeting due to confidentiality.
29:45 – I am a workaholic. Does your organization offer help for that?
33:10 – I want to recommend the book! Will there be another one in the future?
37:05 – I think the 12-step program is for everyone.
44:04 – I lost my 21 one year old son to addiction. Thank you for doing this! I wish I had known about you before.
50:48 – I’ve been in 12 steps since January. I just want to share how much there is to offer.
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Questions Covered:
3:45 – In the Creed it says that Jesus will judge the living and the dead. Who are the dead?
08:00 – How do I talk about Jesus to people who have questions but don’t actually seem to care?
13:04 – What’s the relationship between mortal sins of omission, and good works? Could you lose your salvation through a sin of omission?
17:29 – Is there a process of choosing a patron saint?
21:22 – Does a couple have to be married in the Church to bring up the gifts during mass?
24:07 – What exactly must one say when confessing sins, how specific must one be?
33:55 – What does it mean for a teaching to be essential? What considerations did the Church take to declare the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption?
38:04 – Why if Joseph had a house in Bethlehem, was Jesus born in a manger?
42:38 – Can you talk about the purpose of marriage? Is it strictly to procreate?
47:29 – Am I able to confess a mortal sin if I was intoxicated?
52:14 – Are guardian angels capable of being fallen angels? Could we have been assigned a fallen guardian angel?
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Questions Covered:
08:32 – What does a vocational call mean?
15:43 – How did people in the OT worship God and how is it similar to how we worship in the Catholic Mass?
23:59 – What is the proper understanding of Rev 19:15?
29:15 – In what way is the mass a propitiatory sacrifice?
35:20 – Why isn’t there adoration for the blood of Jesus?
40:42 – Why isn’t the Catholic Church against interest-based economics?
46:04 – My in-laws are not Catholic and were just introduced to the stations of the cross. What’s the history of them?
50:44 – I want to read the fathers of the Church. Where can I start with being led astray?
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