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:
03:21 – 1 Sam 18:10 says “an evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul.” How are we supposed to interpret that when nothing evil can come from God?
10:06 – Can you help me understand in what sense Jesus is God? How can a thing have two natures? Is it the same way the Burning Bush, or the Eucharist, is God?
19:39 – What are the reasons a person might hear voices?
28:55 – My spiritual director has been cautioning me against treating novenas and relics like magic. But in last Sunday’s gospel we hear of the woman who was healed because she believed if she touched Jesus’ clothes she would be healed. How can one have that kind of faith without treating it like magic?
38:05 – Does Matthew quote the Septuagint?
45:50 – What’s the difference between black magic and white magic?
48:42 – I had an experience in early youth that led to my conversion later in life. Have you heard anything like that before? What kind of experience is this?
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Questions Covered:
10:52 – Does the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15 relate back to a council 1 Chronicles 28? I’m thinking that if it does, it could be more proof for the papacy.
17:14 – Does Matthew quote the Septuagint?
21:53 – I heard an interpretation of the story of Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac that Abraham failed because he should have offered himself in place of Isaac. Is there any truth to that interpretation?
31:46 – I find it’s hard to use 2 Macc 12:46 to defend Purgatory to Protestants because they don’t believe in that book. How do you deal with that?
40:20 – How do we answer someone who says that God is Jehovah?
45:22 – How do we answer free-gracers that bring up Rom 3:20 as proof that works of the law are all works?
49:50 – What is the biblical evidence for inclusivism, meaning that God has mercy for those who through no fault of their own have not heard the gospel? And if there’s time… Why does Acts 1:5 talk about a water baptism and a holy spirit baptism, but Eph 4:5 says “one baptism.”
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Questions Covered:
05:35 – My youngest daughter decided to leave the Church and became Lutheran. She will be getting married with a Lutheran pastor officiating. Can I attend?
17:58 – Why don’t we point to images of angels of death and say that it’s St. Michael the Archangel? Doesn’t he do God’s work of bringing death to the earth?
20:25 – How does NFP fit into a Catholic life and being open to life?
34:35 – Is pirating games online immoral?
40:54 – I’m not Catholic. What is the Catholic view of the rapture?
46:37 – I pray the Divine Mercy novena for family who has left the Church. Will this help them when they pass away to avoid hell?
50:36 – Why didn’t the Church make exorcism into a sacrament?
53:03 – Does the Church uphold the validity of a marriage outside of the Catholic Church in the situation of the previous caller’s daughter?
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Questions Covered:
07:03 – I’m close to coming to faith but hell doesn’t seem to fit with an all-loving God. Can you explain?
40:34 – Can you give a summary on the Catholic Moral life?
50:07 – If you start worshiping Buddha, Is that a big sin?
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Questions Covered:
01:02 – Can someone tell me what verses talk about saints in heaven interceding for us?
09:55 – How can we be sure that the Catholic Church is the one true Church when the early church seems more conciliar like the Orthodox?
28:26 – My Eastern Orthodox friend argues that there’s 3 Petrine sees, and Rome does not have a right to override the others. How do I respond to that?
43:47 – I was raised Catholic and can’t get past the bible verse saying call no man father. What’s the answer?
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