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:
15:20 – How can I best respond with love to an atheist and non-binary sibling?
21:38 – Can a Catholic vote in favor of restrictions on abortions that do not outright ban it?
24:48 – How do we balance an absolutist view on morality with the Catechism’s teaching on following our own conscious?
32:00 – How are Christian supposed to react to the death penalty being used in the past verse today?
36:14 – What resources would you recommend for a high school moral theology teacher?
43:34 – Am I wrong for wanting people to stop using the words abortion and euthanasia because they are too ambiguous?
46:26 – How can I respond to relativists who say I am pushing religion by saying objective morality is from God?
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Questions Covered:
01:25 – Are we able to pray the rosary while driving with the aid of audio, or would we have to do it again later for it to be valid?
03:33 – When St. Paul was Saul and was persecuting the Christians, what gave him the authority to do what he did?
06:19 – My friend was Atheist and now Protestant, but she’s very hostile towards Catholicism. What would be a way to help her not be so hostile towards it?
11:09 – Can you obtain forgiveness for something you don’t truly regret?
13:45 – Are there limits on plenary indulgences and do they generally fall under binding?
18:33 – I recently have been meeting with Mormon missionaries and they use Ezekiel 37 to defend the Book of Mormon. Could you elaborate on this passage and why it does or doesn’t defend Mormonism?
23:15 – Would the Roman Pontiff be able to reinstitute the Tridentine Mass?
28:59 – Why does actual grace need to be present for good works to happen or at least be meritorious?
34:35 – Is it true that Judas was condemned to hell because of his actions towards Jesus?
40:54 – People point to Matthew 16:19 being the point at which Peter was given the keys. However, it says, “I will give you the keys”. Wouldn’t that mean he was going to be given the keys later?
46:56 – During mass, the priest at my church sometimes asks the congregation to extend their right arm towards a particular person they want to bless. Is that a licit thing to do? If not, how can I approach the priest in a charitable way about it?
50:26 – Is it ok to receive Communion on the tongue if it’s not from a priest?
52:18 – Is farming the ideal way for Catholics to get their food? What does the Catholic Church teach about mass food production and factory-made food?
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Questions Covered
03:05 – What makes the Pope so Infallible?
05:55 – For the Catechumen, what are they taught when eternal life begins?
13:20 – When the Catholic Church executed Protestants in the past, was it in their right to do that for spreading Protestantism?
15:56 – I’ve heard scholars say some of the Pauline Epistles were written in the 2nd century and not by Paul. What are your thoughts on that?
21:37 – Does the Catholic Church officially believe some Protestants can have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, especially if they don’t speak against the Church or deny the prophecy?
36:44 – How do we as Catholics know that the Calvinist understanding of original sin as depravity is false?
43:22 – Is Hell total darkness? Also, is it complete isolation or partial isolation?
48:55 – What is the relationship between free will and predestination? For example, was Mary predestined to be the mother of God?
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Questions Covered:
03:00 – As someone who is possibly discerning becoming Catholic, why should I be Catholic instead of Orthodox or another denomination that believes in the real presence?
07:45 – Going off a previous question on why slavery isn’t mentioned in the bible, I wanted to talk about the Exodus story and God’s willingness to intervene in cases of injustice.
15:48 – I would like to dispute the issue that marriage is for life.
29:01 – I feel that the idea of organized religion needing to be a mediary between you and your god is evidence that that god isn’t there. That’s why I don’t feel a need to be a part of any religion.
33:38 – What’s the validity of sacraments outside the Catholic Church? Also, do Catholics believe people other than Catholics go to heaven?
43:17 – I was in RCIA in 2019 and then COVID happened. One of the reasons I did not end up going into the church was the Church’s response to it. I was taught that the Eucharist was extremely important to receiving the grace of God and the Church denied people access to it. Why did the Church do that?
51:03 – Are Protestants allowed to go to confession and confess to a priest?
51:43 – What are the main differences between Catholics and Protestants?
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Questions Covered:
14:56 – How does religious freedom account for the freedom of people that aren’t Catholic?
22:43 – I’m Catholic but my Protestant friend has a question. He doesn’t like the fact that there’s non parallelism in the Jewish roots of Mary. How could Eve be the new Mary since she is the wife of Adam?
34:23 – I’m 90 years old. I’ve been Catholic for 2 months, so I was a non-Catholic for 87 years. I am so happy being Catholic and being filled with the fullness of truth. If I can do it at my age, others can too!
41:55 – I have discovered through studying eschatology that everything that the Protestant church understands as our traditions actually came from early Catholicism. Do Catholics believe that they decided to create a new sabbath on their own, not understanding the scriptures, but out of a dislike for Jews because they killed Christ?
47:29 – I’m Catholic but my friend is Atheist. He says the bible doesn’t talk about the evil of slavery. Why is it not addressed?
52:22 – Why is being married in the church so complicated? I’m divorced and annulled but now married outside of the church. Why is it so legalistic?
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