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
Loki now has his own TV show on Disney+, and the god of mischief raises serious issues of atheism, polytheism, freewill, and conversion. We get Joe Heschmeyer’s take on all of it from a Christian perspective.
Cy Kellett:
Disney’s Loki raises big questions. Joe Heschmeyer’s glorious purpose is to answer them, next on Focus.
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 like many people, I have watched Loki, the new Marvel series on the Disney+ platform, an…
Questions Covered:
01:45 – I called a couple months ago about why I should be Catholic, and I’m now in RCIA. What advice would you give to people that are in RCIA?
07:30 – I heard your previous answer to how we can believe in evolution and still be Catholic. The one thing that trips me up though is how Jesus will sometimes refer to Adam and Eve, so is this Jesus saying himself and confirming that they were the first people?
17:30 – Could you talk about dying in a state of grace? If you die and haven’t been to confession, what happens?
21:30 – As an Anglican converting to Catholicism, indulgences and purgatory are new to me. Could you explain them?
36:40 – Why do people call Mary holy? I’m pretty sure it isn’t stated anywhere in the bible.
45:38 – In scripture or in writings of the church fathers, did Saint Paul acknowledge and submit to Saint Peter’s authority?
51:12 – How do Catholics resolve piety and God illustrated in Socrates and Euthyphro?
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Questions Covered:
03:20 – How can we apply faith from Hebrews 11 to today’s world?
17:30 – How can you believe in evolution and “The Big Bang” and still be Catholic?
30:17 – What makes certain saints incorruptible? Why them and not others?
37:05 – Why do we have bodies in the new earth/ after the resurrection? FREE CD SET LAST CALL
44:57 – What is the process of priests wanting to celebrate the Latin Mass as opposed to the Novus Ordo mass now? I know they have to get special permission but what about establishing it within their parish?
47:35 – What is the Catholic Response to the reformation? I feel like no one has had a definitive answer to it. Could you also recommend some material to look into it more?
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Questions Covered:
03:18 – Could you talk about the history of the Catholic Faith in Britain in relation to the Anglican church?
14:18 – Angels are supposed to be pure spirits, do they also have souls like humans?
21:26 – What is a sacrament?
28:30 – From a Catholic standpoint, what is the role of the woman in the family? And what should a man look for in a “good”, practicing Catholic woman?
38:17 – Some Muslims don’t believe that Jesus didn’t die, how do you combat this and other arguments Muslims have against Christianity?
44:44 – Could you explain the allegories surrounding the 24th, 25th, and 26th chapters of 1st Clement?
48:45 – The euphemism of natural death is anything but natural and is a pit from the tree of knowledge, but how does Mother Mary succumb to face a natural death?
52:25 – What’s the point of miracles? Do you think they function past church authority?
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Questions Covered:
05:15 – In the Roman Catholic Church we are told to ask Saints for their intercession. Why are we not encouraged to pray to those of the Old Testament that don’t have the title “Saint”?
10:00 – Why are there so many questions that come into Catholic Answers about the difference/confusion between predestination vs earned salvation?
17:35 – Are Christians who die defending the faith martyrs?
23:00 – Are our Guardian Angels “reassigned” after our deaths? And are the choirs of angels mirrored in hell?
28:48 – How are we to understand the story of Jonah without believing he was actually swallowed by a whale and lived in one for 3 days?
31:47 – Does the church have any reasoning to say whether Adam, the first man, was a modern human or a precursor?
35:05 – If we believe that Mary is without sin, and since Jesus died for our sins because he was without sin, why couldn’t Mary have died on the cross for our sins?
42:40 – Why have the rules changed that a Catholic can be cremated? Do the rules still hold that they should be buried in a Catholic Cemetery?
48:20 – What does the Church teach about good members of non-Christian religions and their ability to enter the kingdom of God?
51:28 – How is the authority that priests are given passed on to lay men to handle the consecrated Eucharist?
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