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:
04:55 – Why shouldn’t we use the pronouns of transpeople, if the Pope consistently does?
14:47 – Why do Protestants use Ephesians 4:11 to say that we don’t need priest?
22:22 – Is going to Confession for the same thing repeatedly pointless?
31:54 – What are your thoughts on increasing reverence by receiving on the tongue and kneeling?
42:55 – How did David become a priest based on the order of Melchizedek?
47:54 – Was the Son of God in biological form or spiritual form prior to the birth of Jesus?
51:56 – Understanding more on the What separates the deuterocanonicals from the rest of the books from the apocrypha?
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Questions Covered:
01:43 – What exactly are Catholics bound to follow? letters, encyclicals, ex-cathedra declarations, etc.
06:02 – What exactly is the authority carried by the nihil obstat?
11:57 – If I believe in everything the Church teaches but I also believe in reincarnation and continual revelation. Can I become Catholic?
22:45 – If you have to be in the state of grace to enter heaven, does that mean your last confession is the only one that matters?
31:17 – I’m a convert. How can I go about receiving the spiritual benefits of the eucharist if I have a hard time believing in the real presence?
37:36 – Are there any writings of papal authority being passed on in the early Church?
46:02 – Can you explain the difference between venial and mortal sin?
52:11 – Why can’t you go to confession over the phone?
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Questions Covered:
02:42 – Why do we have to attend mass on Sunday and who mandated it?
10:54 – What is the Church’s teaching regarding Mary as co-redemptrix?
15:23 – What is the importance of the woman’s submissive role as laid out in the bible? How can we go about it to make women more comfortable?
22:16 – If Jesus is the Prince of Peace, how then can it be moral to carry a firearm? Can we defend ourselves?
28:40 – If the Gospel of John focuses on the body and blood of Jesus, why doesn’t the gospel have the story of the last supper?
33:37 – Regarding the statement “there is no salvation outside the Church,” how does the idea of some Protestants and Jews being able to be saved correlate to that phrase?
43:59 – How do I respond to my mother and brother who left the Church due to there being too many ‘man-made traditions’?
48:49 – How do you respond to the claim that Jesus being the bread is just metaphorical like him being a branch or a door?
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Questions Covered:
05:01 – How is time experienced in heaven?
09:20 – Where do we get the documentation of the fall of the angels since it’s not in the bible?
15:00 – How can we say Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus but still say the Orthodox are saved?
19:20 – Gal 5:2 says circumcision will be of no value. Will a baby that is circumcised today be of no/less value to Christ?
24:28 – Why are we not born with full grace and still affected by original sin?
35:14 – Why does God test his people if he knows what the outcome will be?
43:37 – Is YHWH the Trinity? Did Christophany happen in the Old Testament; meaning did Jesus appear to people in the Old Testament?
49:59 – My granddaughter is not going to be baptized because my son fell away from the Church? Can the baptism of desire be applied to others apart from the parents?
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Questions Covered:
02:28 – Yesterday’s Reading regarding Susana. Did Daniel end up marrying her? How were the two elderly men trying to harm Susana proved to be lying based on a tree?
06:00 – Is birth control acceptable to prevent a pregnancy if the pregnancy is life threatening for the mother?
20:00 – I heard that after Vatican II men were no longer required to be heterosexual to join the priesthood. Is this true?
29:29 – In 1 Jn 5:16-17, why are there different versions that describe sins as mortal vs deadly?
35:40 – If a person is baptized but not confirmed can they receive confession? How do you harmonize baptism of desire and the declaration from the Ecumenical Council of Florence that no one can be saved outside the church even if they shed blood for Christ?
45:55 – Do you consider John Main’s form of meditation compatible with Church teaching?
52:16 – You said that men cannot be entered into seminary if they have carnal sins. Homosexuality is not a carnal sin; it is a condition. Can you expound on this?
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