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:
01:15 – The Bible is called the word of God. Jesus is also called the Word of God. What is the difference between them? I have heard one person argue that because the Bible and Jesus are the Word of God and the Word of God is God, the Bible is also God. I know most people don’t believe this, but using the same word for each is kind of confusing. Why are both the Bible and Jesus each called the word of God, and what is the difference between them?
12:25 – Reading church history, one thing that is clear to me from the early fathers on up is that bishops were not allowed to move dioceses–a bishop was elected to one diocese and he stayed there till death. This was even inserted into the canons of Nicaea and observed throughout the Middle Ages. Sometime between the end of the Middle Ages and today this changed, because now Bishops are routinely transferred from one diocese to the next. I don’t know when this happened or why and I would like to know what made the Church change its thinking here.
18:25 – From a Catholic perspective, what is the proof the Bible is both inspired and inerrant?
22:30 – In the interest of a family member that wants their ashes spread in the mountains, I really need to know if Church teaching/Canon law would allow me to enter a portion of the ashes. I’d like firm information to go on, please!
30:30 – What will the new heaven and earth be like?
34:15 – How important is it for Catholics to obtain a plenary indulgence (corporal works of mercy) and offer to the poor souls in purgatory? I never hear apologists’ comment, condone, or approve of this practice.
40:12 – My 13-yo would like to know that if the Catholic Church is built on faith, and God was scientifically proven to exist, would we still need the Church?
48:55 – What might life have been like if not for the Fall?
51:10 – If the Holy Spirit is needed to believe in Jesus, How did the apostle believe in Jesus if the Holy Spirit hadn’t descended yet until Pentecost?
52:50 – If there were other fallen intelligent species on Earth (Sasquatches, whatnot), would Christ’s death have saved them too?
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Questions Covered:
02:14 – Where are the Pope and the Church in this abortion debate? Why is Biden being supported?
07:41 – Does 2 Corinthians 5:21 teach Imputation as many Protestant scholars say? The Bible cross references and church fathers point to Rom8.3 to say, “made sin” means “sent in the likeness of sinful flesh”.
17:40 – What are the inherent problems with penal substitutionary atonement?
21:45 – Has the Church officially condemned the idea that it’s the community (not the priest) who consecrates the Eucharist? Or that consecration is not valid unless the community is present?
23:25 – Was God a corpse? If it is right to call Jesus God because of the hypostatic union, does that mean it is right to call Jesus’ corpse, while in the tomb, God??
32:54 – Is it probable that cryptids exist?
40:12 – Are Catholics bound under pain of mortal sin to refuse to watch, or stop watching as soon as it happens once, movies where God’s name is taken in vain?
42:40 – Is Jesus our father in heaven?
44:45 – Is the conversion of the Jews prior to Jesus 2nd coming Catholic dogma?
46:46 – Historical comparison question: has the Church experienced its current level of schism and recovered without major splits?
48:40 – Why don’t we believe in Limbo anymore?
52:20 – In Acts 13, who was the guy who was friends with Herod and why is that such an important attribute to note in scripture? “Manaen who was a close friend of Herod the tetrarch”
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Questions Covered:
02:23 – What I found important in helping convert atheists is prayer. What are your thoughts on this?
16:01 – What do I do if I have nobody in my life and I’m wanting to find guidance? I also want guidance to explore Catholicism.
24:16 – How do you respond to someone who says that you don’t need a priest to have your sins forgiven?
33:50 – I’m having surgery and will be under for 6 hours. Is it appropriate to ask for the anointing of the sick?
40:47 – Could you explain Mary as the Co-Redemptrix?
50:22 – What does it mean to be fully consecrated to Mary?
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Questions Covered:
06:37 – Has the Church ever taught geo-centrism as a definitive teaching?
15:20 – I debated Patrick back in 1992 when I was an evangelical and I am Catholic now! I wanted to say hello!
19:09 – My problem with Catholicism is the teaching in Amoris Laetitia on divorced people being able to receive communion. What about the other spouse?
22:44 – How are we not going to sin in heaven?
30:47 – How do I go about converting my friend to Catholicism?
37:24 – Why is it that Jesus had to return to heaven as opposed to staying here on earth?
42:50 – Why would my current wife have to fill out paperwork if I want to file for an annulment from a previous marriage?
45:52 – Is it a sin to not stop someone from gossiping?
47:55 – If Jesus called Judas a devil, does that mean he condemned him?
50:44 – What are your thoughts on burying a statue of St. Joseph upside down to sell your house?
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Some Christians claim that Peter, the man, is not the rock on which Jesus builds his Church, but Peter’s profession of faith is. Actually, no. Apologist Suan Sonna explains why.
Cy Kellett:
Did Jesus really found the Catholic church with a pun? Suan Sonna is next.
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 if you engage at all in defending the Catholic faith, one of the things that you will have to defend is the papacy. And in order to do that, you’re goi…
