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:
3:45 – In the Creed it says that Jesus will judge the living and the dead. Who are the dead?
08:00 – How do I talk about Jesus to people who have questions but don’t actually seem to care?
13:04 – What’s the relationship between mortal sins of omission, and good works? Could you lose your salvation through a sin of omission?
17:29 – Is there a process of choosing a patron saint?
21:22 – Does a couple have to be married in the Church to bring up the gifts during mass?
24:07 – What exactly must one say when confessing sins, how specific must one be?
33:55 – What does it mean for a teaching to be essential? What considerations did the Church take to declare the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption?
38:04 – Why if Joseph had a house in Bethlehem, was Jesus born in a manger?
42:38 – Can you talk about the purpose of marriage? Is it strictly to procreate?
47:29 – Am I able to confess a mortal sin if I was intoxicated?
52:14 – Are guardian angels capable of being fallen angels? Could we have been assigned a fallen guardian angel?
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Questions Covered:
08:32 – What does a vocational call mean?
15:43 – How did people in the OT worship God and how is it similar to how we worship in the Catholic Mass?
23:59 – What is the proper understanding of Rev 19:15?
29:15 – In what way is the mass a propitiatory sacrifice?
35:20 – Why isn’t there adoration for the blood of Jesus?
40:42 – Why isn’t the Catholic Church against interest-based economics?
46:04 – My in-laws are not Catholic and were just introduced to the stations of the cross. What’s the history of them?
50:44 – I want to read the fathers of the Church. Where can I start with being led astray?
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Questions Covered:
03:37 – How important is consolation during prayer in Mass?
11:19 – How do you respond to the claim that If the devil can portray himself as an angel of light, then the devil can potentially be present himself as Mary in apparitions?
16:49 – Does the bible support sprinkling of water in baptism?
23:32 – Why don’t we quickly baptize people like protestants instead of making people go through a whole class and dragging it out?
32:47 – Why does Catholic worship re-present the cross as a sacrifice when the passover wasn’t a sin offering?
42:46 – Is Jesus’ prayer for unity in Jn 17 meant to be now or unity when he returns?
51:05 – Critique my argument for the Immaculate Conception: If Joseph was worried about Mary committing adultery he would not have to quietly divorce her. He was protecting her because he knew the truth.
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Questions Covered:
04:15 – How can I elaborate on the bread of Life discourse?
19:14 – In the Hail Holy Queen, Mary is called the ‘most gracious advocate’’ How can Catholics call her that since that’s who Jesus is the gracious advocate.
29:54 – I’m protestant considering Catholicism. What should I do if I believe something is morally wrong but the Church compels us to believe?
41:48 – How do I respond to the claim that Baptism doesn’t save you?
47:46 – How do we better understand the different I Am statements?
51:59 – Can you talk about why the center for worship is different for Catholics and Protestants? One is prayer and sermon, and the other is the Eucharist.
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Questions covered:
04:26 – How can God be infinite if he became man in the Incarnation?
18:10 – How do you respond to someone who says the Catholic Church got its traditions from the Roman Empire?
28:28 – Is my understanding of faith and works correct?
36:12 – The Catholic church teaches that in ongoing justification, works justify us and are not merely a sign. How is this different from a works-based salvation?
47:12 – When James 3 says teachers will be judged more harshly, does he mean judged by God or by men?
51:11 – Would it be sinful to read things formerly banned by the Church, like Machiavelli?
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