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
13:45 – How do you explain to a fellow Catholic that we’ll eventually come through current crises stronger than before?
17:17 – I’m talking to an anti-Catholic who says that anyone who attended the Council of Nicea was forming a church of the devil and was not in the Church of Christ.
22:25 – How are the titles for the clergy like “Your Eminence” or “Your Excellency” proper? Are they a bad holdover from the middle ages?
30:12 – Do you believe that the idea of a Catholic monarchy in the U.S. is a good idea?
34:44 – How much accountability is the Church supposed to take for humanitarian efforts outside of the Church? Should she focus more on worship?
40:12 – What are some actionable things we can do as Catholics or in our parishes to endure certain crises/scandals going on, whether domestic or out of our control?
43:40 – Do you talk about the Crusades in your book?
47:47 – What do you think the causes were for the sex abuse scandals?
50:28 – I think the crisis of the Church is due to communists infiltrating our seminaries decades ago.
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Questions Covered:
05:10 – I reject the Pope saying it’s okay to take the COVID vaccines, which are based on the murder of children.
15:08 – Is there a difference in the kinds of suffering we have?
20:22 – I disagree with the idea that abortion is wrong even when the mother is too young to take care of a child.
30:00 – Is eternity in hell a just and fair punishment?
42:19 – I’ve heard conflicting things from multiple Catholic leaders about the morality of the death penalty. What is the Church’s official teaching, and why?
47:50 – Do we have an obligation to give priority to vaccines that have no connection to abortion?
50:27 – I think the teaching against masturbation is unrealistic and harmful and leaves people in a state of constant guilt.
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Questions Covered:
10:25 – Do you lose your free will when you die?
19:55 – I’m reading “Letter to Families” by JPII that talks about this subject. Also, where did you get your quotation from St. Therese?
37:39 – I’m in my eighties and have experienced the suffering that comes with that, and I’ve found great consolation in devotion to the Blessed Mother.
44:49 – If people can get to heaven by invincible ignorance, what’s the point of evangelizing and making people into Christians?
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Questions Covered:
Can you explain the glory that we “give” God and does God need this glory? The idea of giving God glory is a little confusing. I know we are suppose to glorify God but never questioned what exactly that entailed.
37:45 – What does Joe think about the idea that Christianity boils down to the service of others and the peace that brings?
51:30 – If we’re all united in Christ when we’re in heaven, how will we still be individuals?
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03:04 – How should one respond to someone says the Neocatechumenal Way is a cult?
12:41 – Why can’t girls be priests?
17:03 – Where do we get all the details of how our churches look and what our priests wear in today’s liturgy? How did we get here from what’s described in the Bible?
21:52 – Is applied kinesiology okay in the Catholic Church?
28:40 – How can we believe the Eucharist is truly Jesus’s body if the body is inherently physical?
34:05 – If someone got married outside the Church, but they want to be married in the Church, can they go to confession and receive the sacraments or do they have to wait until they’re married in the Church?
40:48 – What’s more important: a civil union, or a marriage in the Church?
46:00 – Why did God create the world, and all of us, knowing that there would be pain and suffering?
48:58 – How should I begin reading the Church Fathers?
50:35 – Are the Jews still God’s chosen people?
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