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!
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
01:38 – A family member with dementia has me thinking a lot about this: Say you’re Catholic and maybe haven’t been the most charitable or loving, but you do your basic duty of Mass and Confession. Dementia creeps up–either slowly or quickly–and you get to the point where you don’t know what day it is, much less is able to make an examination of conscience for confession. I just wonder about the state of the soul that can’t improve or offer things up. I know you’re not responsible for your actions if you’re not in your right mind, but do you think they can gain any merit just for the trial of what they’re going through?
05:37 – Any thoughts/ideas about when the Great Pyramid was built? Some say 4000 BC, but others claim 10,000 BC is more like it, even pre-flood, where its air shaft would then point to a different Star.
16:36 – What’s the best way to talk to people who just don’t see anything good about what the church teaches?
18:17 – I have been in a few debates about “limbo.” Does it exist? And do un-baptized children go there?
So many different thoughts on this from many different theologians
21:44 – Is the Latin Mass evil, good, or wonderful, and why does Francis hate it so much?
24:00 – How would you answer Atheist regard the problem of “unresistant unbelief”? If a fellow says he wants to believe in God and be a Christian (as one famous Atheist YouTuber said recently), but just needs some confirming sign to push him over the hump, what explanation can we give for why God refrains from doing so? Or is there some other reply?
28:26 – How is it possible that when a semi-trailer is carrying a bunch of honeybee hives, a honeybee can fly outside of the hive and just hover right there while the truck is moving 75 miles an hour and the honeybee doesn’t get left behind? This blows my mind lol I need Jimmy’s help
33:18 – I know it is illicit for someone like a grandparent to baptize a child in secret, against both parents’ wishes, and against their priest’s decision even though my understanding is valid. My question is, did the child ultimately benefit from this? If yes, why is it considered illicit? If not, how come?
Was it just neutral?
36:23 – Do vampires have souls? Is it murder to slay a vampire (assuming the classical undead form)?
41:55 – What do you think of AI-created “art” (MidJourney, etc)? I used to think there could be a Turing test equivalent, i.e., that we’d always be able to tell the difference between computer-generated images and human-created art, but as I see what is being created by MidJourney and the like I’m having doubts
45:23 – Is there a distinction between Hell / Hades / Gehenna / Sheol (Shuh ull)/ Lake of Fire, or are they all the same thing?
50:08 – Why is sex outside of marriage sinful? This seems to be an overwhelming reality.
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Questions Covered:
01:58 – If you were dying, could you relay your confession to another person and they tell it to a priest? Also, can you say a confession over the phone?
08:09 – Is there any evidence for or against St. Thomas evangelizing India?
12:48 – What would the Mass look like if the reforms of Vatican II were faithfully implemented? Resource Mentioned: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2021/07/23/the-mass-of-vatican-ii/
21:08 – How does remote cooperation with evil get defined and how does it apply to using the benefits of medical research?
24:46 – I would love to know how, exactly, the early Church knew that Mary had been assumed into heaven. Is there a gospel somewhere (small “g” because it’s not in the canon of Scripture) that attests to it? I believe it–I just would love to hear where it was written down what happened, and how everyone reacted, kind of like the Ascension narrative!
30:02 – After St. Peter died, what were the relative levels of authority between the subsequent popes and the remaining apostles?
34:17 – If through Adam’s sin we all inherit original sin, and if Jesus is the new Adam, why do all of us after Jesus’ time who are children of baptized people still inherit original sin?
36:22 – How do we know (and explain) that the catechism doesn’t contradict prior Church teaching about there being “No salvation outside of the Catholic Church”?
44:11 – In the book “Ten Popes who Shook the World,” Eamon Duffy wrote: “The most famous of all ‘papal’ bible texts, Mathew 16:18 – ‘You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church…and I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven’—is quoted in no Roman source before the time of the Decian persecution in the middle of the third century, and the very roots of what may be called the foundation myth of the papacy are uncomfortably complicated.”
True or not, what makes a “Roman” source definitive and what is the earliest/best source for this passage.
50:11 – Why do we kneel for prayer during Mass and yet we stand for The Lords Prayer??
51:32 – Was Moe Berg really a spy?
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Questions Covered:
09:19 – My husband has expressed interest in becoming Catholic out of convenience for the family. How do I give him resources without being intrusive?
21:43 – When do we think Jesus knew he was divine?
36:06 – Why doesn’t the Catholic Church use the name Jehovah if that’s His name?
43:38 – Can anyone bind or loose?
49:25 – How did Lucifer fall if he was one of the highest of angels?
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Questions Covered:
02:51 – Why are there people that reject the 3rd Secret of Fatima?
09:58 – Regarding Mk 9:14-29 and the story of the healing of the demoniac boy. What’s your take on the father’s unbelief?
15:25 – Are writings necessary for canonization of a saint? Is it necessary for them to have written documents?
18:57 – Would it be reasonable to believe that Mary knew that she was conceived without original sin?
20:50 – How would a Catholic immortal respond to the situation of being immortal? Would it be legitimate for them to fight another immortal?
24:59 – What are your thoughts on the prince of Persia in the book of Daniel? Was that a person or a demon?
33:23 – Did the flood in Genesis flood the whole world or just the known world?
38:11 – Who was the first pope?
41:17 – Is there a kind of annulment for the priesthood?
48:18 – Can 2 divorced Catholics who never annulled their marriages date each other?
51:26 – I’m converting, and I want to know the difference between praying in the name of Jesus versus praying in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
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Questions Covered:
02:56 – What makes masturbation a mortal sin?
07:59 – If the protestants lost apostolic succession because of their errors, why did the Orthodox lose it?
12:45 – Act 5 and Joshua 7 because the stories are so similar, can we say that Peter is a new Joshua?
16:53 – What are the Catholic grounds for divorce?
20:18 – I watched a video that claimed Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not related. Is this true?
24:28 – What’s the purpose of venerating saint relics?
31:05 – I found some Old Testament verses about illegitimate children and now I feel worthless. What does God say about us?
36:20 – When did the shift happen from calling priests by their last name to their first name?
42:13 – What drew you into the Catholic Church?
46:08 – Can you help clarify the difference between divorce and annulment?
49:42 – My parish depicted Adam and Eve as a parable. Was it a real story?
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