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:
05:53 – Catholic, married Methodist. He has a divorce; they have a civil marriage. I’m told I need to get an annulment. Why is this?
12:20 – I’m not Catholic; why does the Catholic church believe/profess the doctrine of Transubstantiation?
20:11 – I come across a lot of Protestants who have trouble with perpetual virginity of Mary. Who is James (“brother of Jesus”) in Gal 1:19; is he one of the 12 apostles?
29:40 – Is the celebration of the Eucharist/the Real Presence greater than the miracle of the Last Supper?
33:58 – It doesn’t make sense to me that John the Baptist is described as “the spirit of Elijah’, whereas the prophecy makes it seem as if Elijah was to come back?
41:19 – I’m Catholic, but I’m interested in Orthodoxy. Some of their claims seem to have weight. How can the Church change its position on topics?
47:37 – Where do we get the idea/doctrine of indulgences?
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Questions Covered:
03:09 – How do you compare Ephesians 2:8-9 to James 2:17?
06:43 – What is the church’s social teaching on immigration and treatment of immigrants?
17:00 – Why do we presume a valid Baptism for Protestants coming into the Catholic church?
21:37 – What is Opus Dei?
29:20 – It seems Mary’s condition of the Immaculate Conception helped her be sinless. Does this mean that children conceived sinfully are more prone to sin?
33:02 – What is the difference between presence and substance?
42:58 – How should we discern God’s wants you to use words, action, or prayer?
47: 52 – Where did the practice of folding hands or interlocking fingers come from?
51:30 – Why at Mass do we say “until you come again” right after the consecration?
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Questions covered:
6:21 – Why did you become Catholic instead of some other denomination?
29:46 – How did you arrive at your beliefs pre-conversion?
35:47 – How did you change your mind about Christianity not working for society?
42:36 – What came first for you: believing in the teachings of the Bible and the Church, or the sense of a personal relationship with Jesus?
46:05 – I experienced the same thing as Christine did with dreams coming true. What is that?
48:20 – Were there any Catholic dogmas that were particularly hard for you to accept?
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Questions Covered:
11:44 – Is there a difference when you pray for specifics like for a job vs when praying in general like the Our Father?
23:26 – How can you tell the difference between a demonic manifestation and a soul in purgatory who needs prayers?
23: 33 – Is it true that the first bible came from Ethiopia?
28:47 – If God is all knowing, do we really have free will?
37:24 – How do I respond to the objection that Mary had a painless childbirth but yet still experienced death meaning that she was not sinless.
45:50 – Is it necessary to have sacramentals be blessed by a priest?
48:17 – What is the official language of the Church? What was the process of marriage in the 1st century Holy Land?
52:45 – What era did the Church rule that priests could not be married?
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Questions Covered:
07:35 – Does 2 Jn 1:1-3. prove Sensus Fidelium?
12:42 – How are the different theological opinions in the east and west that would be needed to be reconciled for union?
19:38 – Why did God place the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the garden of Eden in the first place?
24:58 – Is it true that in biblical days women who gave birth to boys had to be secluded for 30 days and if they had girls it would be 60 days?
31:46 – Sola scriptura is very defendable from scripture. It was Jesus’s primary gripe with the Pharisees. Almost every conversation He had with them was directly condemning any source other than scripture.
34:05 – What are the differences in biblical canons for the Catholics and Orthodox?
36:37 – I go to an evangelical school. My teacher said that Jesus couldn’t have instituted the eucharist at the last supper because it would go against the Deutero laws and Levitical laws. How do I respond to that?
45:28 – What was the process to enter the Catholic Church in the early 1900’s?
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