Catholic Answers LIVECatholic 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. 

Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!

 

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Most Recent Episodes

Questions Covered:

03:54 – What’s the Catholic perspective on self-help books?
7:45 – Did the fall of angels happen before or after Adam and Eve?
13:24 – What is a well-formed conscience and how does one form one?
20:08 – How can the NAB be an approved bible if there are some passages, mainly the story of the woman in adultery is included but states that it’s potentially not in the original?
28:50 – How did evil come to be? The bible doesn’t really talk about it but it seems like other religious writings talk about it.
35:48 – Did Jesus tell Peter to build the Church upon the rock before or after the crucifixion?
42:07 – If you’re addicted to a sin and commit it habitually does that make it a mortal sin?
47:06 – How do Catholics balance assenting to authority and knowing when to revolt against spiritual authority?
53:55 – Is it permissible for a Catholic organist to play at an Episcopal church?

Questions Covered:

03:31 – Is it ok to purchase a lot of presents to someone to ask for forgiveness? 
06:53 – Are the unborn persons? 
11:47 – Is it possible to avoid going to purgatory? 
19:23 – What level of obedience does one owe to parents, especially as adults? 
29:30 – How would the Church adapt the liturgical calendar if we colonized another planet or the moon? 
34:22 – How do I defend the Marian doctrines if typology is not the best way to defend doctrines in general? 
42:30 – I left the Church over a month ago because I was rejected by the person who I associated my Catholic faith with.  How do I get over rejection? 
49:39 – Why is it that priests always receive communion in both species, but the laity mostly only receive communion through the host? 

Questions Covered:

13:59 – I have a history of attempts at recovery and have a traumatic brain injury, do you have any advice to get over these hurdles?
24:20 – I recently got out of a protestant recovery program and am excited to hear that there is a Catholic alternative! Could you share more about the ministry?
35:13 – How do I tell if my spouse is an alcoholic?
45:55 – Does your organization point families to programs that have good track records?
50:39 – I founded a CIR group and the clergy were very excited that this existed! I would like to share this story.

Questions Covered:

23:32 – How do we address popular leaders in the Church with fringe ideas that have some prominence and lead people away from proper teaching?
30:18 – I think we should pray for the leaders who disappoint, but there’s a difference with those who are trying to change Church teaching. How do we deal with those movements that are trying to subvert the direction of the Church?
42:01 – Do you consider leadership to include laity who push clergy to do their job?
50:40 – What are the elements of learning in your leadership academy?

Questions Covered:

02:01 – did Mary have the beatific vision? Where is the line between making jokes and being blasphemous and sacrilegious? 
08:18 – Did Zoroastrianism influence Judaism or Christianity? 
21:20 – In the Nicene Creed it says that Jesus will come the living and the dead, does that mean that those who have died are in the state limbo waiting for Jesus to return? 
28:53 – What’s the Church’s understanding of personhood? 
41:06 – If a priest is in the state of mortal sin and celebrates mass, is it proper for him to receive communion? 
45:39 – What do you know about the origins of priests celebrating mass 3 times a day on Christmas? 
48:15 – If God forgives all sins during confession, what are judged for after we die? 
52:58 – Jesus breathed on the apostles giving them the Holy Spirit and then the apostles received the Holy Spirit again on Pentecost. Did they get a double dose or was it a different spirit?

 

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