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:
04:23 – I applied for a new job as a data analyst for a medical company. I found out they partner with fertility clinics and LGBT people adoption centers. Could I take this job or am I too close to cooperation with evil?
07:56 – Do you have to be Catholic to go to heaven? Is everyone in heaven Catholic?
14:20 – If I’m serving at a Saturday vigil mass, does it qualify as me participating?
19:21 – Did the Jews that died in the holocaust go to hell?
24:06 – What’s the correct response to the objection on John 6 that Jesus is just speaking spiritually?
31:27 – Does the host after consecration emit anything?
40:45 – Is Anglo-Catholicism a legitimate branch in the Catholic Church?
47:05 – What happens to a person spiritually when they are in a state of grace and then commit a mortal sin?
50:42 – How are we supposed to pray for our loved ones who, as far as we know, have denied Christ?
52:53 – What is the Church’s teaching on fertility drugs?
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Questions Covered:
13:37 – In the early Church, as apostolic succession tied to the bishops of the presbyters?
18:13 – Is the Magisterium above Sacred Scripture?
23:32 – Is there a difference between a nun and a sister?
29:06 – I’m a recent convert. Is salvation lost for my ex-Catholic dad?
33:38 – Are there any connections today between Moloch and abortion?
35:40 – You once gave a great argument against Orthodoxy saying that historically they did take the popes say as authoritative. Could you expound on that?
43:27 – Are the Jewish people still saved by the old covenant? Does the old covenant still apply to converted Jews?
47:33 – Is the long form of the St. Michael prayer an exorcism prayer?
50:41 – What keeps an antipope from adding to Catholic tradition?
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Questions Covered:
04:05 – Why is the Father the first person of the Trinity, the Son the Second, and the Holy Spirit the Third? Why that order?
13:34 – How are we saved? By grace alone or by baptism?
17:54 – Are you fully a Catholic if you have baptism by desire?
28:37 – Is it true that the Council of Trent taught that there’s no salvation outside of the Catholic Church? And if it is, is that still what the Church teaches today?
39:09 – How can we increase in the initial state of justification?
47:30 – Why do Catholics not believe in predestination?
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Questions Covered:
04:37 – 1 John 5:13 says that we can know that we have eternal life. But Catholics say that we can’t know. It sounds like Catholics disagree with the Bible on this. Can we still perish even if we believe in Christ?
17:15 – Why do Christian churches try to scare everybody into believing in hell?
23:09 – Is it true that all Christians who are baptized technically have been exorcized?
29:39 – I have trouble with the teaching that God’s authority over his creations makes it okay for him to kill them. Wouldn’t that make him pro-choice?
42:38 – I see substitutionary atonement as very influential in pushing me towards atheism and I want to see if I’m understanding it correctly.
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Questions Covered:
01:21 – My question involves a Frankenstein’ monster scenario. Let’s suppose that the monster’s body was created as provided in the original novel. Let’s also suppose that the body parts were all gathered from baptized persons. After coming to life, would the monster need to be baptized in order to have the stain of original sin removed?
06:11 – Why do things fly off the shelf by themselves? Why do we hear heavy footsteps on our ceiling when we only have a one-story house? Why do our cats avoid a certain spot in the living room and spend hours alertly watching it?
13:16 – I believe in ghosts, or whatever it is that we call ghosts, because my daughter has seen them when she was younger and scared us all. What did she see? If ghosts are real, what are they? Why would someone be able to see them?
23:53 – If you lean too close when blowing out your Jack-o’-lantern, can the pumpkin suck out your soul?
30:02 – I know someone who died, and he was very possibly in mortal sin. His wife died a few years earlier, she was a good faithful Catholic. He spoke to two different relatives probably within an hour after he had just passed and revealed to them that he was not in the same place as his wife, he said that he could not see her. Both relatives didn’t even know he had passed away, he spoke to them in their dreams with the same message. How does that happen?
34:05 – Is Father Amorth fake and/or just a product of the Satanic Panic? If he is fake, is he sincere in his beliefs or is he some type of Satanic Panic Grifter like Mike Warnke and Zachary King? In the case of Father Amorth I still believe in exorcism, but Father Amorth’s claims, and documentaries make me think that he is not a good exorcist. RESOURCE MENTIONED: http://www.canonlaw.info/a_amorth.htm
36:57 – Could a gateway to hell exist? Such as the legend of Stull, KS
40:42 – My daughter, Lauren, would like to know the history of the tradition of carving pumpkins and if it had any connection to the Catholic “All Hallows Eve”
43:16 – Is serving Candy Corn a mortal or venial sin?
44:11 – I hear demons are not able to reveal a person’s sins IF that person already went to Confession. And demons especially hate Latin. Are either true?
48:28 – Catholic Apologist Matt Fradd does a horror podcast called Sibling Horror… it can get pretty spooky. My question is, can someone listening or writing such stuff put them in any danger of even an occasion of sin since it could be entertaining thoughts and scenarios that could lead down a dark path? Or is that something that would change depending upon the inclination of the specific individual?
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