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:
08:58 – Why do we go to a priest to confess our sins?
15:10 – Splendor of Truth, JP2 includes deportation as inherently immoral. Can you help clarify why he says that?
19:50 – Lumen Gentium says Catholics and Muslims worship the same God. Could you elaborate?
33:35 – How was the Magnificat record in scripture?
36:23 – Is Jesus sitting at the right hand of the Father as a human being or a spiritual being?
45:27 – In the Bible it says that God is with us. How is this different from saying he is with us in the Eucharist?
49:01 – As a practicing Catholic I would like to learn more about responsible parenthood. When is it appropriate to practice NFP?
52:02 – Follow up comment on Muslim question: My son in law is Muslim and they do believe in Jesus and the one to come at the end to save us, but they just don’t believe that He’s God.
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Questions Covered:
05:45 – Sedevacantist claim that St. Lucia’s letter confirming the consecration with JP2 was forged. Is this true? Was the 3rd secret of Fatima fully revealed? Did Padre Pio know the full 3rd secret of Fatima?
15:44 – What breaks Sunday rest? Does ordering pizza or going to Disney World break it?
28:39 – I’m converting to Catholicism but live in a rural area where RCIA is not available. I was allowed to have 1 on 1 sessions with an associate pastor. What can I do to make sure I get the most out of my situation?
33:48 – Gen 3:16 God says Eve’s pain will be intensified. How is this possible if pain was a result of the fall? Does this mean that they weren’t seeing the beatific vision before the fall?
40:31 – What did Jesus mean when he told his disciples to go buy swords but later condemned Peter when he used the sword?
46:50 – Was there really an imposter of Sister Lucia? The pictures look different at different times.
49:12 – Why are we so relaxed with the 4th commandment but strict on theology of the body?
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Questions Covered:
14:45 – What are your thoughts on one parent sharing all the terrible things the other parent did to the child? Is this protecting the child or hurting them?
22:29 – I haven’t spoken to my mother for 15 years. Do I reconcile with my abusive mother?
31:33 – How do you recover from being the targeted parent? How do you reconcile with the children?
38:50 – I’m experiencing parental alienation. I feel like I’m still being targeted. How do I respond to his behavior?
43:19 – I’m the victim of parental alienation. I’ve run out of ideas. What do I do now?
49:27 – How can I get a relationship back with my kids? They won’t speak to me?
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Questions Covered;
08:20 – What are your thoughts on Sola Scriptura?
14:13 – If you’re pressured to have an abortion and given no option, is it still a sin? What does scripture say?
22:14 – Can you give recommendations for biographies of people who have really lived out the Faith? I want to give it to a non-practicing Muslim friend.
29:15 – How would you respond to someone who denies an afterlife?
34:40 – I’m a born again Christian. How do I respond to someone who asks who created God?
41:30 – How can I defend the principle of having to go to confession to remove mortal sin?
48:59 – What are good responses who claim all things are just opinions?
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Questions Covered:
01:57 – My son Peter who is 9 asked when your judged what age are You? It is Thomas Aquinas’ opinion that we will be 33 in the resurrection does that mean we will be judged at the age of 33. Thanks for Your shows!
05:55 – Bleeding tears?!? That’s aliens.
10:55 – What does the Easter bunny have to do with it, and why does he deliver eggs when bunnies don’t lay eggs? My granddaughter asked me that the other day. Is the Easter bunny perhaps an alien?
16:27 – How much DID that stone weigh, anyway? It was very large.
21:09 – What if time travelers went back and succeeded in preventing the Crucifixion? (Mind you, I think that time travelers would be unable to change the past even if time travel turns out to be possible.) Would all those prophecies go unfulfilled? Would God have a backup plan of redemption in place?
28:28 – Jimmy Akin, apparently smaller breeds of rabbits live longer than larger ones. Given the known average lifespans of different-sized known breeds of rabbits and the photographic evidence of Easter bunnies could you estimate the average lifespan of an Easter bunny?
32:25 – I heard a priest explain when Christ’s Body was in the Grave, He went and preached to the “spirits or souls in prison” mentioned I believe in 1st or 2d Peter…He preached to the Good dead…not to the bad dead…those in true Hell….and as I understand it…Mel Gibson’s upcoming Passion Of the Christ 2 movie, will be about this very subject…what say you, Jimmy, on this scripture in St. Peter’s Epistle?
44:15 – How does undigested food affect the properties of resurrected bodies? For example, it’s usually assumed resurrected bodies can walk through walls. But would a resurrected body that just ate be able to do so. When talking about the Eucharist, we often assume the real presence is there for about 15 minutes as it still has the accidental form of bread, would a resurrected body need to wait 15 minutes after eating before walking through a wall?
51:13 – What can we say in response to those History Channel types who might ask how we be sure that Christ wasn’t raised from the dead by a benevolent, sympathetic alien force that has been surreptitiously monitoring the human race?
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