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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:
01:45 – How is it remotely right that annulment due to canonical form means that a person who was baptized Catholic but left the church in their teens and was married in a protestant church isn’t really considered married by the Catholic Church and they could get it annulled if they came back? How does this actually work and what am I misunderstanding because I don’t see how that’s remotely justified
10:42 – What would you say to a protestant who doesn’t see the need to go to church on Sunday?
15:03 – Is it wrong to address the Angel Gabriel as “archangel”? I have learned from Wikipedia that he is an archangel 2nd in command. Is it a Catholic teaching to acknowledge Gabriel as archangel, what is the difference between the two?
18:48 – Since the LXX was the basis for our current Bible, why weren’t all of the LXX’s books included in the Bible?
21:15 – Question 1: When are Catholics required to give their full assent to the teachings of the Church? I heard an apologist mentioned that we do not have to follow Pope Francis’s teaching on the death penalty since he was making a prudential judgment.
23:15 – Question 2: Since the Latin Church is in communion with Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches. Does that mean that Rome has implicitly canonized the Saints in the Eastern Church that were Orthodox since these saints were after the Great Schism like Gregory of Palamas?
24:28 – Jimmy, how do you respond to non-Catholics who ask about the number of Catholics who publicly criticize the Pope – they question our claim of unity.
31:58 – Please shed light on what this is about. Matt 27: 52-53. the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his
35:00 – Can you explain purgatory in adult terms.
41:58 – What is transubstantiation? Is there a good example of change in substance in anything besides Eucharist that would help people understand Eucharistic transubstantiation?
47:43 – If (or when) we welcome the Eastern Orthodox Churches back into the fold – what could that mean for the Table of Contents for our Bibles? What books could plausibly make the cut, so to speak? 3 Maccabees but not 4 Maccabees?
51:55 – I know of holy water and blessed salt to protect my family from evil. What else should parents know to protect their families?
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Questions Covered:
06:00 – Does the physical material (for example, bone or hair or tooth or whatever) of a given saint’s relic bear upon its Wonder-Working Providence?
11:56 – How can one better understand the trinity without falling into one of the many heresies there are? Why does it seem like there is a hierarchy when Christ says that the Father is greater than Him when all are equally God?
17:23 – Is God “complicated”? It has been bandied about that God has “His” time to call us home. Regardless… I’m not sure that I think this.
22:15 – When a new saint is canonized who identifies the attributes that one sees in depictions of that saint? This assumes that there is an actual selection, as opposed to a tradition arising that “sticks” by attrition as the years go by. Similarly, who identifies the patronages, if that’s a real word. Example: When St. Jimmy is canonized one day, who will decide that you’re always to be depicted wearing a cowboy hat, and that you’re the patron saint of philosophers from Arkansas?
28:48 – Protestants call certain parts of Scripture apocryphal and we call them deuterocanonical. I want to understand why. It seems to me there is one canon of scripture and when I looked up deuterocanonical, it means second canon. Why do we have a second cannon of scripture when there should be just one cannon?
31:50 – People advise people in difficult marriages to draw on the graces of the sacrament. For those with annulled marriages, were there any?
33:00 – I am having a discussion with a protestant who claims that power to forgive or retain sins was given to more than the apostles that night of Jesus’ resurrection. He bases this on Luke 24:33 (that says others were present) and John 20:19-23 being the same appearance. How do we know that these two appearances were not the same? Or were they?
41:45 – In Robert Hugh Benson’s book “Lord of the World” the Pope establishes the “Order of Christ Crucified” in which the goal of the members are to seek out martyrdom. Is there a sense in which seeking martyrdom can be contrary to the Faith?
47:27 – Why are Catholics seen as “haters” when we stick to our guns on items of faith, sacraments, and morals? I hate no one but I know there is a standard we are all held to
50:24 – Can a practicing Catholic go to a Protestant Mass with a friend who is of this particular denomination as a friendly gesture? I know that the Catholic Church would not recognize the Eucharist within a Protestant service as being properly consecrated and thus null. Also, I do believe it is against church teaching to say some Protestant prayers that go against Catholic teaching. Can I have some clarification and guidance in regards to wanting to be friendly and charitable but within the parameters of Catholic responsibilities?
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Questions Covered:
02:00 – Why do we believe that Mary is in heaven with her glorified body and not Moses and the Old Testament prophets?
08:03 – Regarding the prayer for the faithful depart, why do we pray for the “faithful” departed and not the unfaithful?
13:28 – Our Lord died for our sins but why do we still have to pay for our sins in purgatory?
20:00 – Why do we not have the same belief of the Eucharist as with Protestants? And why do we have the body and blood and they don’t?
28:53 – How do we know that guardian angels don’t leave them when they become adults? Do adults have them too?
34:34 – How do you address a non-Catholic on Catholic issues who only believes what’s written in the bible?
43:00 – Follow up on communion question: Can you receive communion at different non-Catholic churches?
46:07 – Why do we believe that at the end of time the Jews will come to the Faith and Catholics will leave it?
50:19 – If the Catholic Church is the one true Church, why is there a distinction between Catholic and Christian?
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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 …
