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:
14:56 – How does religious freedom account for the freedom of people that aren’t Catholic?
22:43 – I’m Catholic but my Protestant friend has a question. He doesn’t like the fact that there’s non parallelism in the Jewish roots of Mary. How could Eve be the new Mary since she is the wife of Adam?
34:23 – I’m 90 years old. I’ve been Catholic for 2 months, so I was a non-Catholic for 87 years. I am so happy being Catholic and being filled with the fullness of truth. If I can do it at my age, others can too!
41:55 – I have discovered through studying eschatology that everything that the Protestant church understands as our traditions actually came from early Catholicism. Do Catholics believe that they decided to create a new sabbath on their own, not understanding the scriptures, but out of a dislike for Jews because they killed Christ?
47:29 – I’m Catholic but my friend is Atheist. He says the bible doesn’t talk about the evil of slavery. Why is it not addressed?
52:22 – Why is being married in the church so complicated? I’m divorced and annulled but now married outside of the church. Why is it so legalistic?
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Questions Covered:
09:57 – Do you think the Conjunction Fallacy is correct? What are your thoughts on it?
19:29 – Does the church have any teaching on taking photos of open caskets?
21:55 – I understand that Protestants have a valid sacrament of marriage. If a Catholic becomes a Protestant and marries another Protestant, is the marriage valid? If they were to be married in a Vegas chapel with no witnesses, would it still be a valid marriage?
28:50 – I was told baptized babies don’t receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit until confirmation. Could you elaborate on what this means?
33:19 – What is the meaning of the first resurrection in Revelation Ch 20?
37:18 – Would Adam and Eve have suffered a physical death had they not eaten the fruit?
41:51 – Can you clarify what the church means by “the dead know nothing”?
49:50 – How did the church construct how we’re supposed to fast?
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Questions Covered:
03:20 – If a Roman Catholic doesn’t commit mortal sin, then is it still necessary to increase in merit to increase in justification?
11:53 – What is a doctor of the church is how does someone become one?
14:40 – On a show I watched there was a married man that became a monk. Can married people become monks?
19:05 – Science says there’s multiple dimensions and each choice we make is split up. Does the Church teach that there are multiple of us? If so, does it say that in some universes we are saved and others we aren’t?
23:43 – Why is the New Testament church that Paul talked about different from the way the church is set up today? I am technically Catholic but I am Protestant now.
45:31 – Are the fruits of the spirit the proof of our regeneration rather than baptism?
50:40 – Does the church have any teaching on whether the soul of a deceased person can linger as a ghost? For example, in the sense of a house being haunted.
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Questions Covered:
01:35 – Why do we believe that a child confirmed under a different Christian religion would not be a valid sacrament in the Catholic Church?
07:18 – If God is love, does God’s love equal sanctifying grace?
15:15 – Why is there music in Church?
18:57 – Why do we believe in purgatory?
23:21 – Why could Jesus never be left alone during adoration?
29:30 – Why would a marriage not be valid if it wasn’t celebrated in a Church for a Catholic?
33:40 – Why does the Church reach out to the communion of saints and not to pray to the dead?
39:57 – I’m a Protestant, how is sin not totally paid for on the cross?
51:10 – Why does it take so long to be baptized as a Catholic?
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Question Covered:
04:32 – Why can we say that creedal statements of the 4th Lateran Council can be infallible when we have to stretch it to sound Catholic?
17:27 – Why do we believe that it’s the Holy Spirit that enables us to speak in tongues, specifically the babbling?
25:05 – Why does divorce disqualify you in some cases from receiving communion?
33:22 – Why do we have the three criteria for something to be a mortal sin? Has it always been like this since the beginnings of the Church?
42:12 – Why are some promises from saints approved and others not? Examples of the St. Brigid of Sweden’s promises and her visions of Jesus.
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