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:
06:50 – According to tradition, Peter was a bishop of Antioch, but later went on to find the Church of Rome. The Eastern Orthodox tend to bring it up as a contention against Papal supremacy. How can we argue against this?
13:45 – What would’ve happened if Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned?
17:45 – I’m addicted to watching alien shows/content and it’s had a negative effect on my faith. Can you give me some tips on how to reconcile my interest with my faith?
23:45 – I feel sometimes that even though I have everything, it all feels mundane, and I have a thirst for Heaven. It feels like a prison. Can you tell me how I can deal with this?
35:30 – How can I bring someone to the faith who doesn’t really read the bible?
45:00 – I have a friend who’s a deacon in the Coptic church, and he tells me that when Joseph and Mary left with the baby Jesus to go to Egypt, they were there for 3 years. If that’s true, how was he presented in the temple?
48:50 – I wasn’t a believer growing up in the Catholic Church. In the past 5 years, I’ve come to realize my ways were not good. I’ve been looking into various religious sects, but I’ve come to see that the Catholic Church is the true Church. How do I move forward from here?
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Questions Covered:
03:30 – How does the 8th day play into the sabbath?
18:40 – How do we respond to the object that we’re just picking and choosing what the church fathers said?
29:45 – Can you articulate the difference between what happened on the cross from a Reformed Christian position and the Catholic position? If you could start at the death of Jesus and go through the resurrection, not leaving out the Reformed Protestant/Calvinist position of feeling the wrath of God.
41:10 – Was it necessary for Christology for Jesus to be virgin-born?
45:20 – I’m not Catholic but at Christmas time I always watch the mass. How far back do the rituals of the mass go?
48:50 – What is the evidence that the Church believed in the Immaculate Conception before it was defined? Were there any early church fathers that believed in it before it was defined?
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Questions Covered:
06:35 – My mother is Episcopal but I’m Catholic. What can I tell her that will really get her over the hump and want to become Catholic?
15:00 – I have a protestant family member that asked, “Why do Catholics believe that Mary didn’t die and where can we find it in the bible?”
18:40 – There’re certain popes who have told some notoriously bad lies. Given that the pope is supposed to be the vicar of Christ, why is he able to act that way? Wouldn’t the holy spirit lead him away from that?
28:50 – My Protestant roommate has assented to the truth of Catholicism. However, he has such a thriving church community at his Protestant church that he’s hesitant to leave and commit to becoming Catholic. What are some arguments I can use to help him fully cross over into wanting to become Catholic?
45:30 – I feel baptism is not the right thing to do to a baby and that it should be a conscious decision of an adult. Could you give some examples from the bible of where it says babies should be baptized?
52:20 – My wife wants to know why she has to fill out an annulment form if I am the one that wants to join the Catholic Church.
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The most wonderful time of year — the tree, the lights, the cider — oh, and don’t forget the stories about how Christmas is a pagan holiday basically stolen by Christians. Jimmy Akin joins us to get to the root of some of the claims made about the hidden paganism of Christmas.
Catholic Answers is proud to present a very Pagan Christmas, with Jimmy Akin.
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 that’s how I feel every Christmas. We’ve got t…
Questions Covered:
04:47 – Do you think there’s going to be a future with the Latin Mass or is the Pope trying to get rid of it entirely?
12:24 – According to Protestantism, they repent, their sins are forgiven, and they go to heaven. If we as Catholics don’t confess them to a priest, they are not forgiven, and we cannot go to heaven. Why is it that our terms are different?
21:43 – Paragraph 603 of the Catechism says, “Jesus assumed us in the state of our waywardness of sin”. Could you unpack and clarify this? I understand the son of God became a human being with all of our characteristics other than sin. If this is true, then how did He have “waywardness” Himself?
30:02 – John 3 says you need to be baptized to be saved. Luke 7 says your faith saves you. How did the woman in Luke get saved without Baptism?
36:23 – My daughter is having problems with fertility and her OB GYN is recommending she freeze her eggs. What is the Catholic Church’s view on this and fertility?
45:58 – Simon says to her, “Behold this child is destined for the rise and fall of many, and as a sign that will be contradicted, a sword will pierce so the thoughts of many will be exposed.” What is being contradicted and what is this sword that is piercing? Why is Mary’s heart being pierced taken only mystically and not literally?
50:51 – I was invited to a New Year’s party with friends and I know there is going to be excessive drinking and sexual immorality. What is the church’s stance on scandal and how would it relate to my situation?
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