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:
11:46 – What does the Catholic church view as the main problems with to Martin Luther’s Ninety-five theses?
18:01 – Why do Catholics Baptize infants?
29:18 – Is it a permissible view Genesis 18 as a manifestation of the Trinity?
34:25 – I found $600 today, what should I do?
42:00 – What is the Catholic view of organ donation specifically when it comes to brain death?
48:30 – Why is it assumed that Mary died before she was assumed?
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Questions Covered:
03:27 – How can I get across to my confirmation students the importance of going to confession?
11:53 – How did the Magi know that the star of Bethlehem was leading them to the king of the Jews?
16:21 – Does Joe still hate cheesecake or have you repented of that sin? And is Cy going to release a full version of St. Irenaeus and the Goblet of Fire?
22:26 – I heard Catholics say that Scripture has a kind of primacy over Tradition. But that seems to contradict what I’ve read in the Catechism and Dei Verbum. Can you explain?
31:19 – The shroud of turin is one cloth, but one of the Gospels clearly says there’s a separate cloth for his head. Is that a problem?
34:33 – What is the Catholic position on embryos? Are they alive or just tissue?
43:44 – Can you help me explain the role of Mary in salvation history?
48:39 – How can we know God, and in what way is a person able to know God?
52:05 – How can be there different levels of approach to God in heaven? I’m uncomfortable with that idea.
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Questions covered:
05:28 – How do we reconcile parts of both scripture and tradition that seem pessimistic about many being saved with other parts that are more optimistic?
14:48 – Does infallibility produce an infinite regress?
20:48 – How would Joe’s argument against the Protestant view of scripture handle views of perspicuity that are more limited?
29:01 – How do we know that Matthew wrote Matthew and John wrote John and Revelation? We don’t have any other writings to prove that from.
36:01 – What does CCC 841 mean when it says we and Muslims together adore the one God?
47:38 – How do Isaiah 53 and Galatians 3:13 fit into the Catholic view of atonement as opposed to penal substitutionary atonement?
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Questions Covered:
04:13 – Can you share your interpretation of Matthew 5 as it relates to purgatory?
07:38 – If God is all good and loving, it seems unjust to send an unbaptized baby to Hell?
15:14 – How do I share with my mother that the Saints are praying for her, she just needs to ask?
21:41 – Are canonizations infallible? What confidence can I have in this process?
29:40 – Where did we get the idea that Saints can pray for us but not themselves?
33:39 – What is Purgatory? Can we know if we are going to purgatory?
41:31 – Is the suffering in Purgatory close to the level of Hell? Can the souls in purgatory talk to us?
49:10 – Can you explain the Saint prayer to release 1000 souls in purgatory?
52:05 – Is purgatory different from Paradise? How does this impact the thief on the cross?
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Questions Covered:
05:03 – Does the church teach that Purgatory is a process or a place?
13:13 – How can I reconcile purgatory and the final judgment?
19:23 – What is the difference between OCI and RCIA?
24:27 – What is the treasure referenced in Luke 18:25?
32:57 – How do I defend purgatory with a Baptist who don’t have the book a Maccabees?
39:23 – How many Saints pray for us?
45:39 – How do you find out the name of your guardian angel?
50:08 – Can you explain Hallowtide as we prepare for All Saints solemnity?
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