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:
06:20 – If from the moment God creates us, he knows we’re predestined to heaven or hell, how do we have free choice?
15:20 – Why do Catholics believe in Purgatory? Specifically, the Biblical evidence.
21:19 – Could things like having our temperature taken on our forehead, or carrying our phones around in our hands, be signs of the Mark of the Beast? And would God make it something like that, that we might do without knowing?
23:15 – Why does the Church keep and venerate relics and saints’ bodies?
34:00 – What does the Church teach about organ donation and cremation?
40:15 – Why do Catholics believe they’re not allowed to hold God accountable to his own moral system?
46:25 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints?
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Being entirely objective, the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is the best building in the world! We ask Duncan Stroik, the founder of the Sacred Architecture Journal, to explain why this is, and why churches, and other buildings today, don’t match it.
Why don’t we build churches like St. Peter’s anymore? Architect Duncan Stroik is next.
Cy Kellett:
Duncan Stroik is Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame University and the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal. And we had the great, good fortune of having a visit from him here at Catholic Answers. So we sat down to talk wit…
Questions Covered:
02:25 – What would you say to someone that is interested in joining the church but the idea of having to go to a class to join the church is off-putting to them?
11:05 – I heard a point made from a person that the crumbs of the host of the holy eucharist is somewhat an exaggeration of reverence how it is treated. Back in ancient history when they used real bread, not wafer, when broken and shared, it inevitably made breadcrumbs fall on the ground and they did not treat it with as much prudence as they do now?
15:07 – Can a person with ADHD be at fault for the constant distractions that happen during Mass or prayer?
17:51 – I’ve heard of a Mass celebrated where the Homily was done through a video call, where the priest was in another location, and broadcasted in Mass as the Homily. Is this ok?
20:33 – Are Guitars and Drums allowed in mass? Also, is it good to have them used in liturgical celebrations?
23:02 – Should we as Catholics allow synthetic intelligences full voting rights?
28:58 – What is the best step a person can take to get over scrupulosity?
33:15 – Why do we call priests father? Doesn’t the Bible tell us that we’re not to call anybody father except God the father?
41:49 – How efficacious is mental prayer compared to verbal prayer? Should one ever be specifically used in place of the other?
44:27 – Is there any resource where it gives a Catholic summary or commentary of every chapter of every book in the Bible? Especially reading the Prophetic books, it kind of helps if there’s an explanation for each chapter.
47:07 – Can you explain why, if I’m understanding correctly, a marriage between two baptized protestants would be presumed valid while a marriage between a protestant and lapsed Catholic would not?
50:42 – How does one discern if they have given into a lustful thought?
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Questions Covered:
19:50 – Based on the Catholic teachings, is it wrong to celebrate the feast days commanded in Lev 23?
23:08 – How could God condemn Adam of Eve of sinning because of eating from the tree of good and evil? They didn’t know the difference before eating from the tree, so how can you count it as sin?
24:39 – Is it okay to not believe in a historical Adam & Eve?
31:14 – Why isn’t St. Constantine on the Roman calendar? In the East we celebrate the feast of St. Constantine and Helen, but the west only celebrates St. Helen…do Latin Catholics reject his sanctity?
34:32 – When certain faith communities refer to a “great apostasy,” what are they talking about? Is there a certain period when the church fell away?
36:25 – How can a person believe something that seems false to them? If you aren’t convinced of a thing, can you really say you believe it?
43:06 – Father, would you explain the icon of Jesus holding an infant in swaddling clothes? Is this Mary?
46:55 – With regards to the book of revelation, is there any reference to a one world government with regards to events to come?
49:38 – What does the church teach regarding suicide? I have heard conflicting answers.
52:37 – Can a priest be sent to minister to someone dying in their final hours who is not a Catholic?
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Questions Covered:
04:00 – As a protestant, we were focused on present-day miracles from Christ, but Catholics are more focused on miracles through intercession from saints.
16:30 – What is the 54-day rosary novena?
20:00 – Is the phrase “full” in Luke 1:28 when Gabriel says “Hail Mary full of grace” an inaccurate translation?
28:43 – What happens to the soul when somebody goes to communion with mortal sin?
36:12 – Did God the father die when Jesus died?
40:47 – Nancy Pelosi recently made a statement using the term “free will”, I think the Catholic media needs to do a better job at responding to it. How would you define free will?
48:41 – What is your take on the controversial blessed Carlo Acutis stained glass image? Joe Heschmeyer argued against a Catholic Youtuber that said in the stained glass he’s wearing sneakers and jeans and some Catholics took an issue with that.
52:44 – How does the Anglican/Protestant view of the doctrine of justification differ from the Catholic view of it? Could you explain the differences?
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