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:
03:23 – How do we know when it is wrong to use medical drugs that affect brain chemistry?
09:07 – How do I respond to my Pentecostal friends’ challenge on what the Catholic church’s plan for salvation is?
10:44 – Do we Catholics believe in things like fairies and other things heard in fairy tales?
15:03 – Jesus says we do not have life in us if we do not consume the eucharist (Jn. 6). Would not Jesus’ words trump St. Paul’s words in 1 Corinth. 11?
22:00 – What’s the proper devotion to the scapular and what are its origins?
23:43 – Would God create people who He knows are going to hell only because that person would have offspring that would be saved?
32:20 – When venerating saints, is there a line that would cross us into necromancy?
39:52 – Is Zechariah 14:9 evidence for the validity of baptism in the name of Jesus instead of the Trinitarian formula?
41:54 – Are we supposed to baptize people in the name of Jehovah and Jesus since Jesus said we are supposed to baptize “In the name of?”
47:10 – How do we interpret St. Paul’s exhortation on obeying our rulers?
49:20 – It sounds like Mt. 13:20-21 and Mark 10:15 are at odds. Could you help clarify?
52:10 – Why does the Church accept Vatican 2 if it sounds like it contradicts Vatican 1 and other things the Church has taught?
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Questions Covered:
02:42 – Does the Church consider the Greek language scripture and inspired scripture or only the original Aramaic?
12:33 – In Sacrosanctum Concilium 36 it says that Latin needs to be preserved in the mass. Why hasn’t it been preserved?
21:17 – Who made the decision to change the word during the distribution of holy communion? What is the proper way of disposing of fragments and crumbs of the Eucharist?
29:26 – How do I balance my faith life and my life living in the world?
39:54 – What does the Church base its teaching on no premarital relations?
45:52 – Why don’t we have a specific name for God?
50:11 – Why was the mass changed from Latin to the vernacular?
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Questions Covered:
00:56 Is biblical Hebrew different from the Hebrew spoken today? If so, how different are they?
9:50 – How did God make Satan a snake in the garden of Eden?
10:42 – I’m not Catholic. Do Romans 8 and 1 Timothy 2:4 contradict about predestination?
19:02 – Is there a significance in the name changes in the bible and why they are sometimes used interchangeably?
27:57 – Matthew 24:29-31 Could you give me more information on the illumination of conscience?
43:30 – What was the first angel?
46:15 – Lev. 5. When in the bible did, they become aware that they stopped practicing the jubilee?
50:10 – What are the biblical teachings on tribulation, millennium and the final judgment? Does the Catechism say anything about these?
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Questions Covered:
03:34 – If saving faith can happen by calling out to the name of the Lord prior to baptism, is baptism just a substitute?
11:27 – Revelation says that the Euphrates River would dry up at the end times. It’s drying up now. Is this a warning sign?
19:50 – There’s a verse in the Old Testament that supports putting to death false prophets, witches, etc. Was this the reason they did that in the Middle Ages and what’s the church’s official teaching?
24:54 – Why would the Lord regret something He did?
33:47 – Is it likely that Joseph would have sped up his engagement process? Was she under reproach after the birth of Jesus?
44:40 – Mark 11:22-24 If we really believe in something are we really going to have?
51:38 – How did David offer sacrifice if it says that only members of Aaron’s family were allowed to offer sacrifice?
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Questions Covered:
03:14 – Could you give me a brief summary on how the mass came to be?
12:18 – What made you become Catholic instead of Orthodox?
18:46 – How do you properly consecrate yourself to Jesus and Mary?
23:54 – I sometimes have a hard time understanding because of the thick accent. I heard that you have to understand certain things he said that the priest said to receive communion. Is this true?
31:56 – Do priests have training to help people from other religions to figure out why they should convert to Catholicism over other religions?
42:37 – I’m Orthodox. What was your timeframe when you were considering Catholicism vs Orthodoxy? What has been your development of ideas since converting regarding the national ties to Orthodoxy compared to the historical national ties in Catholicism?
50:33 – Why are celibate gay men allowed into the priesthood?
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