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:
10:10 – Why do Catholics believe that our Faith is a gift from God instead of using the evidence that we have?
29:07 – If a priest who is hard of hearing doesn’t fully understand all your confession, is it still valid?
34:42 – Is our sexual desire still going to be present in our resurrected body?
42:43 – Is it reasonable to hope that many will endure purgatory and few in hell?
48:15 – How does the Church decide which sins are more grave than others?
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Questions Covered:
03:15 – How can I explain confession to a non-denominational friend?
11:06 – Has the Church formally declared that the Fatima events were genuine?
13:50 – How was Jesus heard in the sermon on the mount if there were thousands of people?
20:00 – Will those who are still alive during the end time have to experience death?
21:40 – Where in the gospel does it address cohabitation?
24:27 – If we cannot see God face to face but we can see Jesus face, does that mean we can see his face?
28:49 – I’m in a debate with friends. Is our solar system geocentric or heliocentric? What are your thoughts?
36:17 – Was Peter’s profession of faith the real rock that Jesus built his Church upon?
44:10 – What is a synod? What is the synod on synodality?
47:20 – Is there any occasion where the creed can be omitted from Mass?
47:07 – In the Old Testament, two prophets were assumed into heaven, where did they go if the gates of heaven weren’t open?
52:00 – What do you think of the illumination of conscience that many saints have prophesied and foretold?
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Questions Covered:
17:40 – What do you think the president and the speaker should do to keep the Church happy?
20:54 – Why is there talk of politicization of holy communion?
30:27 – How do we change minds on this issue?
35:20 – Why is it that banning people from receiving communion takes so long?
43:50 – I’m a registered nurse and the state board came out condemning the decision. How do I as a faithful Catholic handle this?
48:50 – Is it bad for me as a Catholic to blow off this topic and say, “It’s your body, your sin?”
52:00 – I think it’s important to emphasize the financial incentive for businesses to pay for abortion.
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Questions Covered:
10:43 – What do you think about Catholic organizations promoting homosexuality?
13:28 – How do you handle a response from Catholics who prop up priests who promote that lifestyle?
18:07 – How do I share my Faith with people and show them that there are good people who also struggle with same sex attraction?
24:29 – Should I attend a gay wedding that I was invited to?
33:08 – If I send a baby shower gift to a nephew and his gay partner who adopted be taken as promoting gay adoption?
42:48 – I’m bisexual and my wife knows that. I was almost married to a man. How would my spiritual life have been different if I had taken that path?
47:44 – I’m not Catholic, do Catholics have the same reservations about attending gay weddings as they do with 2nd weddings, cohabitating couples’ weddings etc.? Resource: https://ruthinstitute.org/
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Questions Covered:
16:04 – I’m very close to joining the Catholic Church but how do I make sense of Pope Francis and his actions, especially the restrictions on the Latin Mass and the pope praying with non-Catholics in non-Catholic ceremonies?
21:47 – Can a pope declare a private revelation to be necessary for salvation or for one to be considered Catholic?
30:59 – Pope St. John Paul II declared that he had no authority to ordain women, was that considered an infallible statement?
36:13 – If a pope says something that isn’t true, is that a danger to souls?
45:42 – Is it true that the pope can declare something about the Mass that a future pope could not undo?
49:29 – Because Jesus instituted the papacy, the pope cannot declare new things like ordaining women.
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