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:
04:41 – My wife is pregnant. When she partakes in communion, does that mean that the baby also partakes in communion?
08:37 – Did Jesus have brothers?
14:14 – Is it appropriate to receive communion twice?
16:03 – What is the morality of a car accident? At what point would you be sinning mortally?
20:49 – How is Genesis 3:15 translated from the Jewish perspective compared to the Catholic perspective?
24:09 – How does one address a bishop or cardinal? What title does one use?
32:50 – Why did Jesus have to die?
42:33 – Where did God come from?
49:09 – I’m returning to the faith. My parish is getting a priest from Ghana, and he will be serving 2 parishes. I know he will be overwhelmed but how do I approach asking questions without adding to his stress?
51:55 – Why would my 8-year-old grandson have to go through RCIA to get baptized and to receive communion?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
04:25 – What are the fasting obligations for the elderly and those in elderly homes?
13:07 – Why does it take so long to enter the Church?
18:50 – Did Mary experience labor pains? If she did, why if she didn’t have sin?
24:36 – What’s the science behind transubstantiation?
40:49 – 1 Tim. 2:11-12 What’s the Church’s stance on women in teaching ministry?
49:25 – I teach RCIA and I have a candidate struggling with Sunday Mass obligations. Can you help explain?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
04:26 – Is it possible for babies in the womb to receive grace from their mother receiving communion?
14:49 – The early Church seemed to be pacifist. After Constantine the tone changed, why is that?
21:31 – Am I required to send my kids to religious education after confirmation?
28:36 – Could we Catholics start implementing prayer mats into our services?
30:26 – Why did God allow polygamy in the Old Testament?
38:32 – Are all of the priest’s sins absolved when he washes his hands during mass?
42:19 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints through prayer?
46:42 – How much weight should we give to dreams and try to interpret them?
51:16 – Could you clarify whether Mary and Joseph were married or unmarried. Can you clarify why betrothal?
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Questions Covered:
20:31 – Has the east dogmatized icons? Is that similar in the west?
23:42 – Didn’t Jesus say that we are all gods? Shouldn’t we then venerate ourselves? Are we in competition with God?
36:28 – I am an Orthodox convert to Eastern Catholicism. I would be so let down if I walked into a church without Icons.
38:05 – Prayer to saints seems to be more than just venerating. Can you help clarify?
48:27 – I think Elijah’s condemnation of worshiping demons is a warning to not worship saints. What are your thoughts on this?
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Questions Covered:
18:03 – Do you think this movement is driven by a lack of fathers and profiting off people’s feelings?
22:24 – Can You clarify your statement on God’s plan to put this confusion into our kids?
29:59 – My godson is transitioning and taking hormones. How do I approach this especially since his mom is approving?
36:05 – Can you help break down what non-binary means?
43:36 – What do you think about the argument that no matter the hormones and surgeries, one’s DNA will always be either male or female?
52:39 – How far will third wave feminism go in its radical ideology?
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