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:
03:05 – How would one come to know the gender of one who is intersex?
11:21 – What’s the reasoning behind the teaching that Jesus is present in both species?
14:45 – Is it possible to live a contemplative life as a married man?
21:57 – If Adam and Eve were perfect before the fall how did they have imperfect judgment by choosing sin?
30:01 – How can we prove that Mary was always a virgin?
38:12 – How can I prove that we receive salvation through faith and works and not salvation through faith alone?
43:19 – Does God already know if we are going to heaven or hell?
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Questions Covered:
04:01 – Imagine a technology developed that gives two people the ability to share feelings, emotions, physical sensations, etc., with each other as if they were truly experiencing the other person in the exact state that they are in at that moment in time. I’m thinking of a situation where John is trying to explain how he feels about something important, but he just can’t put it into words for Jane to understand. To solve the problem, they both connect their minds with the technology and for a brief moment, Jane knows exactly the how’s and why’s of John’s emotions, even his physical sensations or pain or pleasure. She is now able to understand him on a level that is too complex for words, resulting in greater intimacy and love between them. If we apply this to Church teaching on marriage, would a husband and wife be obligated to participate in this activity as a means of total giving of oneself to the other? If not, could you think of some variation of this technology or scenario that the Church would promote or even require? For the purpose of this thought experiment, assume that you wouldn’t be able to abuse this technology or generally use it in a negative way.
15:30 – Is there competition in heaven? It seems to be part of human nature.
18:54 – Assuming that there is life on other planets and that they have been given the same immortal souls as we have, and assuming that they are susceptible to death as we are, does that mean that Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory are currently comprised of human souls and the souls of what we would consider aliens, too?
22:51 – Has a convert ever been Pope?
24:32 – Are the proposed alien sightings aliens or angels and/or demons?
34:25 – My understanding is that the soul is the life principle. When stem cells are removed from a body and cultured, do they receive a new sensitive soul but not rational soul?
41:52 – Some writers through history have depicted multiple “levels” of hell and heaven (e.g. Dante). Is there any biblical support for distinct experiences of heaven and hell?
48:06 – Could the other people mentioned in Genesis be the Neanderthals? (See Genesis 4 and the reference to the people who might kill Cain)
52:03 – What happens to your soul if you get assimilated by the Borg?
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Questions Covered:
06:01 – What proof is there that the Catholic Church existed before the 3rd century. A Protestant challenged me on that.
12:39 – Why does the Old Testament sound so harsh? It feels like we cherry pick what we follow from it.
18:25 – Would killing a sentient robot be considered murder?
20:51 – What would be a good book to learn about the Marian dogmas?
30:30 – How do I convince an atheist or agnostic that God is real in simple terms?
32:59 – If the keys were given alone to Peter, how do we reconcile the Church fathers not recognizing that?
37:46 – How do we know the bible is the real Word of God?
44:40 – How do I refute the claim that abortion is self-defense?
49:11 – What’s the difference between the deity of Christ and the divinity of Christ?
51:28 – In Matthew 24 Jesus talks about the great tribulation. What did Jesus mean by it?
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Questions Covered:
03:54 – What’s the Catholic perspective on self-help books?
7:45 – Did the fall of angels happen before or after Adam and Eve?
13:24 – What is a well-formed conscience and how does one form one?
20:08 – How can the NAB be an approved bible if there are some passages, mainly the story of the woman in adultery is included but states that it’s potentially not in the original?
28:50 – How did evil come to be? The bible doesn’t really talk about it but it seems like other religious writings talk about it.
35:48 – Did Jesus tell Peter to build the Church upon the rock before or after the crucifixion?
42:07 – If you’re addicted to a sin and commit it habitually does that make it a mortal sin?
47:06 – How do Catholics balance assenting to authority and knowing when to revolt against spiritual authority?
53:55 – Is it permissible for a Catholic organist to play at an Episcopal church?
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Questions Covered:
03:31 – Is it ok to purchase a lot of presents to someone to ask for forgiveness?
06:53 – Are the unborn persons?
11:47 – Is it possible to avoid going to purgatory?
19:23 – What level of obedience does one owe to parents, especially as adults?
29:30 – How would the Church adapt the liturgical calendar if we colonized another planet or the moon?
34:22 – How do I defend the Marian doctrines if typology is not the best way to defend doctrines in general?
42:30 – I left the Church over a month ago because I was rejected by the person who I associated my Catholic faith with. How do I get over rejection?
49:39 – Why is it that priests always receive communion in both species, but the laity mostly only receive communion through the host?
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