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:
02:10 – Is the Catechism “adding to the Bible” in the way that Revelation commands us not to?
08:10 – Why do have to recite the rosary out loud?
11:55 – What’s the Catholic understanding of having a personal relationship with Jesus?
16:30 – Why do we ask the Saints to pray for us?
20:41 – Is it okay for my girlfriend, who is visiting from out of town, to sleep in my apartment (in a separate room) for a night or two?
24:47 – What are plenary indulgences, and what do they accomplish?
33:51 – Is panentheism (Google: “the belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and interpenetrates it”) an accurate view of God? Specifically, is it a more accurate representation of him than the traditional white-robed man or the postmodern “all around us” views?
42:43 – Outside of receiving their communion, is it okay for me to regularly attend a Protestant worship service?
48:27 – Why did Jesus often order those he healed miraculously to not tell anyone about it, and why did they so often disobey him?
52:07 – I tried to go to confession before Mass recently and the priest told me he couldn’t hear me at the moment but he could hear me afterward. I said I wanted to confess before because I had a mortal sin and wanted to receive communion, and he said I could receive and then confess after Mass. I’ve never heard that from a priest before. Is it ok?
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Questions Covered
04:43 – Could Fr. Hugh comment of the state of religious orders and their orthodoxy in the United States?
13:19 – How do I evangelize to my agnostic family and friends who believe in higher power but don’t want to follow organized religion?
19:28 – Is it okay for me to work at a workplace where I can be reasonably sure people will be committing sins?
23:47 – Who is Our Lady of Charity?
32:52 – What are the Church’s teachings on religious liberty?
46:36 – How can I talk to someone in my family who’s convinced the Freemasons have infiltrated the Church?
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Questions Covered:
04:33 – In Acts 3:13-16, Peter says twice the Jewish people denied the holy and righteous one. Why does he say this about others when he did it himself?
07:10 – Is there any effect the Eucharist has on an unborn child when his mother receives it?
11:21 – Can you still receive the Holy Spirit if you smoke cigarettes?
15:12 – When they took all the animals on Noah’s Ark, did that include the dinosaurs?
17:35 – When Jesus forgave the paralytic’s sins, did Jesus forgive the sins that caused him to become paralyzed, or did he forgive unrelated sins?
28:29 – How do you avoid discouragement when your good deeds aren’t accepted by the world?
35:39 – Does the cloud of witnesses (Heb 12) include those in Purgatory? And are they aware of our life events?
43:21 – What’s the difference between Jesus’s Ascension into heaven and Mary’s Assumption into heaven?
45:58 – How did we transition from worshipping on Saturdays to Sundays when Genesis says God sanctified the seventh day?
53:20 – What does the Bible mean when it says St. Paul was forgiven out of ignorance?
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