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:
04:25 – My spouse has a severe porn addiction. We’ve tried so many ways to break it but it seems like it’ll never stop. How can I raise my children so they won’t be harmed also?
14:41 – What does it mean when people say “Offer it up to God”?
16:30 – Do you believe that we’re coming close to the end times based on what we know from Revelation and what’s happening in the world today?
21:13 – When does Genesis go from being literal history to poetic, symbolic literature?
35:03 – How can I find a good priest in my area? Do you have any recommendations?
43:20 – Why do we believe that the deposit of faith ended with the Apostles? I’m in a discussion with Mormons who are strongly pressing me on this.
48:15 – Since one of the founders of the neocatechumenal way, Carmen Hernandez, is being considered for beatification, would that remove some of the negative perceptions surrounding it?
52:40 – When we say the Our Father, why do we leave off “For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, now and forever”?
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Some Christians miss or explain away the amazing gift that Jesus gave his Church when he told the Apostles, “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven…” This unique moment is given to us in John 20:23. Karlo Broussard joins us to explain why the most obvious reading is the right one — Christ gave the Apostles the power to forgive sins.
Cy Kellett:
Did Jesus give the church a sacrament of confession or not? Karlo Broussard is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy K…
Questions Covered:
01:13 – Is it alright to not thoroughly understand every single teaching of the Church and simply believe it on authority?
9:50 – What’s the morality of smoking marijuana, specifically when you don’t intend to get high?
17:04 – The Catechism of the Council of Trent seemed to say that Judas is in hell, but in the new Catechism it doesn’t declare that. If the Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth, how does that work?
22:33 – Why doesn’t the Catholic Church recognize Mormons as Christians? How do we get off saying that when other denominations say that about us?
31:33 – When Our Lady of Fatima spoke to the children, she called herself the Lady of the Rosary instead of the Mother of God, and seemed to demand that people pray to her instead of to Jesus. That seems kind of suspicious to me.
42:14 – If God already knows over all time who’s going to be saved in his plan, what’s the purpose of us trying to get to heaven?
49:43 – When Moses struck the rock twice, God said he wouldn’t enter into the land he was giving his ancestors. But in the beginning of the Bible, it says the land was always guarded, so how did others get in?
52:15 – What is the biblical evidence for purgatory?
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Questions Covered:
06:55 – Do I NEED to ask the help of the Saints and Mary?
14:53 – If the Church has the power and authority to give out indulgences, why is she so stringent about giving them out?
23:52 – Why can’t our parishioners receive the blood from the chalice since COVID started? If it’s truly the blood, and truly incorruptible, shouldn’t they have it?
31:09 – Why did Judas go to hell but the thief on the cross went to purgatory?
37:37 – I’m not sure how to defend the infallibility of the pope to my Protestant and atheist friends. They say that gives him supernatural power.
46:30 – My younger sister wonders why women can’t be priests because there’s plenty of holy women.
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Questions Covered:
03:17 – Do vaccine mandates contradict the Catechism?
11:48 – I heard a rad-trad argue that the Novus Ordo is spiritually harmful, even though it’s licit, by comparing the two forms of the Mass to the sacrifices of Cain and Abel. How would you respond to that?
19:25 – Where can I find evidence of Jesus in the Old Testament outside of the Psalms?
24:41 – contacted Tim a few years ago and he helped me dig deeper into my faith and I’m so thankful for his help.
29:23 – What’s the Catholic stance on asexuality (not being attracted to either sex)?
36:16 – What does one have to do to devote themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
43:50 – When the priest is consecrating the sacred elements, because he’s in persona Christi, is it right for us to understand that in that moment he’s actually Christ? If that’s so, is it accurate to understand his body as accidental and his substance as Christ’s, just like the Eucharist?
48:51 – How do we know that forgiveness of sins in John 20 is talking about sacramental confession and not just forgiveness in general?
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