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:
02:58 – I’m trying to find encouragement. I find myself more Catholic than the Catholic Culture around. Any advice?
12:33 – My father started a new church in our home and a year ago I began exploring and discovered the Mass. I have a lot of questions. How do I proceed? How do I discern if Catholicism is true?
19:57 – I see that in the Shroud the nails go through the wrists but in stories of stigmata the wounds happen in the hands. Should I not believe in these stories?
29:53 – Why do we need repetitive prayer like the rosary?
34:53 – How do I explain to my child that my recent ex-wife is engaged? As a Catholic how do I approach this?
40:30 – When is it appropriate, after entering the Church, to start considering a religious vocation?
43:52 – My granddaughter has been diagnosed with a tumor. We will be going to a healing Mass, what should we expect?
53:55 – Is the process of working through the doctrines a barrier of evangelization?
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Question Covered:
14:31 – What would you say to someone struggling with Marian doctrine?
19:20 – What is allowed for Catholics to do with their bodies after death? Is decomposition allowed?
32:55 – It appears the Church puts Mary in a higher position than Jesus. What’s the teaching?
44:10 – In the Hail Holy Queen prayer it says that Mary is our life, sweetness and hope. Wouldn’t this be Jesus?
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One strategy used by those who want to denigrate the Bible is to say it doesn’t meet Christian standards of what is acceptable in the media. It’s a clever move, but is it true that the Bible is too sexy and violent for respectable reading?
Cy Kellett :
Should the Bible be reserved for mature audiences only? Trent Horn is next.
Cy Kellett :
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and if you’re going to defend your Catholic faith you’re going to have to defend the Bible.…
Questions Covered:
03:22 – do I move forward in Faith from personal experience to a more rooted understanding? How can I know that Christianity is true?
11:43 – Why would God do miracles in a Pentecostal church if it would lead them away from the Catholic Church?
24:30 – In Mt 26 it says that the disciples were eating before the consecration. Was there a meal beforehand?
29:19 – I’m also having trouble having faith in the Eucharist. Can you give me some guidance?
36:19 – After Adam and Eve, how many people were there?
40:55 – How do I explain apostolic succession to a Calvinist if they claim that succession was only needed during those years?
48:28 – Does the Church cast out demons and should every believer cast them out?
52:06 – Does Lev 21:9 concern burning the living or cremation?
Resources Mentioned:
Ad resurgendum cum Christo
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Questions Covered:
03:09 – How do you tell the difference between purgatory and hell?
05:13 – Why are Christianity and Buddhism not compatible?
14:25 – Would the son of a married Catholic priest be able to become a married Catholic priest?
18:58 – I lost my 18 Y.O son to suicide. How do I make sense of this and what’s the Church’s understanding? Resource: When a Loved One Dies by Suicide – Ave Maria Press
31:08 – Why doesn’t God just eliminate Satan?
34:56 – What’s the official Church teaching on centering prayer by Thomas Keating and Christian meditation according to John Main? What are the concerns?
44:40 – My friend claims that the bible’s context was changed in different periods of time. How do I refute this?
52:31 – I’m Nigerian and in my home country Christians are being killed. In Lk. 22:36 it says that Christians should fight. Should we take up arms to fight back?
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