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:
04:32 – Why ask for forgiveness during prayer if absolution is only offered during confession?
15:35 – Why do we believe in the perpetual virginity of Mary?
20:07 – If God is all loving and merciful, why do we have to fear the punishment of sin?
23:33 – If you sin with the thought that you will just go to confession after, will you still be forgiven?
28:57 – Why Catholicism and not Greek Orthodoxy?
36:59 – Why do Catholics believe in guardian angels and is it obligatory for Catholics to believe in them?
44:06 – Why aren’t a wider range of Papal utterances protected by papal infallibility?
50:32 – Why is it necessary to be married in the Church, even for fallen away Catholics?
Resources:
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Is it really true that if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention? Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church Was the Catholic Church, explains why anger at modern problems is not always a virtue.
Cy Kellett:
Ever hear phrases like, “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention?” Joe Heschmeyer challenges those ideas next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Joe Heschmeyer with us this time. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. We talk with Joe about anger, specifically …
Questions Covered:
05:38 – In Deuteronomy 22:28-29 It talks about a man lying with a virgin. What does it mean from the Catholic perspective?
16:12 – I’m a 2nd grade catechist. They want to know why God judged Adam and Eve so harshly? Why couldn’t it be just a teaching moment?
22:22 – What if a person holds back a sin due to shame before their wedding? Will that person’s confession and marriage be valid?
24:30 – Why did God direct the Israelites to kill the other nations who were occupying the promised land if we’re all God’s children?
35:43 – I’m blind and I just wanted to tell Cy thank you and I love your audio book.
41:25 – My protestant friend called me and told me that he was convinced that hell doesn’t exist. Could you explain if it does exist and how you get there? How could it exist if Jesus died for everyone?
48:46 – If the sacraments are efficacious should we expect a temporal manifestation of that grace?
52:22 – I feel drawn to become Catholic. How can I approach this with parents who are deeply opposed?
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Questions Covered:
02:15 – Should we avoid any forms of media that can be linked to the demonic?
12:18 – Why did the Church in the west retain the Latin language in the liturgy? Prior to the Reformation, were homilies delivered in Latin? How would you answer a protestant if they say that the Church kept everything in Latin to keep people from understanding?
23:10 – My sister is going to marry a non-Catholic outside of the Church. Will her marriage be a valid Christian marriage?
28:43 – Why do some bibles have different chapter numbers for the Psalms?
31:35 – What did the souls that went to heaven do differently from the souls that went to purgatory?
46:10 – Why do we believe that Jesus is not speaking in hyperbole in John 6?
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Questions Covered:
10:05 – Did Adam and Eve benefit in any way from eating of the fruit before being expelled from the garden?
11:35 – James and John talked about sitting on Jesus left and right and Jesus rebuked them. On the cross Jesus told the good thief that he would be sitting by his side in heaven. Could you clarify this for me?
14:05 – We as Catholics are told to call priests father when in the bible it says call no man father?
19:12 – What’s the biblical basis of relics?
28:40 – What do you think of the Douay-Rheims in terms of it coming from older manuscripts that are now available?
38:55 – In the bible it says having faith the size of a mustard seed can move a tree. How can I know that I have faith?
43:50 – In Deuteronomy 23:12 and Wisdom starts at 3:16, it says that children born through illegitimate births will not inherit heaven. Can you clarify this for me?
51:11 – I’ve heard it said that one doesn’t have to believe in personal revelation, but Paul had personal revelation. Why do we put so much emphasis on Paul’s personal revelation?
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