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:
06:17 – calling on behalf on a friend who is discerning Catholicism– his friend has a question about people in the past paying for indulgences and for people to get out of purgatory?
29:14 – discerning Catholicism, he feels open to Catholicism, but his wife is not comfortable with it. What are some basic things he can share with his wife to positively share more about Catholicism with her?
49:10 – I have a family member who is not catholic. Is he allowed to receive last rights?
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Questions Covered:
04:08 – What do Roman Catholic believe going to heaven is dependent upon?
16:14 – What archeological Study Bible should I use if I am trying to become Catholic?
19:07 – how does one become a Catholic but avoid a triumphant attitude?
29:44 – Non Catholic, parents were Catholic, in her 3rd marriage, wants to become Catholic but doesn’t have anyone to sponsor her in RCIA… how does she navigate this?
42:08 – Why is God not held accountable to the same moral standards in relationships as we are?
49:39 – Can you explain more about purgatory and how someone can pray for someone else in purgatory?
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Questions Covered:
15:07 – If you’re divorced and remarried but your first marriage wasn’t in the Church, can you receive communion?
18:46 – While you wait for an annulment, what does it mean to live like brother and sister
23:19 – I was married to a non-Catholic and having trouble finding proof of this prior marriage. Only divorced. What can I do to prove it was not a marriage in the Church?
30:07 – What does it take to get an annulment?
34:13 – I just wanted to say that the advice to give, to go to a priest should also include the deacons. I feel like the deacons were made for this.
35:07 – Why don’t they treat casual sex with the same degree as being in a non-Catholic valid marriage?
43:34 – What’s the Church’s guidance for those who don’t have a valid marriage and are separated but don’t seek divorce?
45:28 – What is the reason for annulments being valid if the couple are married outside of the Church building?
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Questions Covered:
08:44 – When dialoguing with a protestant and using the common ground of the bible, where should I go in terms of moving the conversation after a “this is just how i interpret it’ point 5. causes it to stagnate?
15:30 – How do you respond to the claim that in order to be Christian one needs to be born again?
20:20 – Is there salvation outside the Catholic Church?
28:46 – A protestant asked me if using bacon grease breaks the Friday Lenten abstaining from meat?
34:40 – How do we defend against claims that the papacy has changed over history? How do we defend doctrines that were introduced later in history?
44:56 – How do I respond to people who say that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon?
52:55 – What’s the difference between abstinence and fasting during lent?
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Questions Covered:
02:42 – Some Protestant minister who converts to Catholic church can become priests and stay married. Why isn’t this extended to Deacons?
09:09 – How can I reconcile Holy Days of Obligation and fasting during lent with Mark Chapter 7?
17:05 – I’ve heard the Word became the Son at the incarnation only based on Psalm 2. How can I respond to this?
23:50 – Where is St. Gabriel mentioned in the Bible, what makes him an Archangel?
28:50 – Why is there no video evidence of a miracle?
34:02 – How did the Septuagint get its name?
36:05 – How can I talk to someone who says you don’t need Confession?
40:32 – Why did St. Padre Pio have the stigmata, and did it hurt?
42:13 – Why in the US does we seem to ignore a 1997 Vatican Instruction when it comes to the use of extraordinary minister?
48:17 – What denomination is the Hillsong church and can we attend as Catholics?
50:54 – Is there firm teaching of using they/them pronouns?
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