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:
03:50 – How can the Church be pro-life if God commanded the Hebrew army to go on conquest?
16:15 – What is the difference between Mary’s Immaculate Conception and my own conception?
24:00 – What is the Catholic view of immigration?
42:29 – Which came first: the fall of angels or the creation of man?
48:30 – Is it reasonable to say that God created all things in 6 days?
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Questions Covered:
02:25 – Is there a contradiction between Matthew 5:19 and 5:20?
06:55 – What is the Church’s teaching on tattoos?
14:30 – When Jesus was 12 in the Temple, why didn’t any of the teachers remember him 20 years later when his public ministry started?
17:22 – How does the contingency argument relate to the Big Bang?
22:32 – Can you explain relationships or the lack thereof in Heaven?
29:18 – Are the saints in Heaven aware of our sins?
35:40 – What is the Catholic basis, if any, for religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine?
43:53 – Are people in the state of mortal sin allowed to feel happy?
48:11 – Why do I offer up my suffering to God?
50:55 – How did the bishops expand from the 12 apostles?
Resources Mentioned:
CDF: Note on the morality of using some anti-Covid-19 vaccines
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Questions Covered:
01:45- I suffer from scrupulosity. I tend to view God as a God who will send us to hell at the tiniest little mistake. How do I view God as a more loving and merciful God? Is it possible to go to hell if we are not sure if we committed a mortal sin or not?
07:30 – In a spiritual sense what is our life on earth compared to the spiritual life in Purgatory, Heaven and Hell? What is our role/purpose in living here first on earth?
13:24 – Can you explain the thought that Purgatory is a place to atone for our sins? This is what I was always taught.
20:34 – Can one pray to a deceased loved one without the knowledge that they are in Heaven?
24:49 – How do we know if we are in purgatory or hell if we are being tormented in both? If I am in purgatory and I think I am in hell and I start cursing God’s name for putting me in hell, is there a chance I can actually be cast into hell at this point
34:37 – Will a soul who has not followed the Christian life still have the opportunity to go to purgatory and Heaven?
42:25 – Does God still love the souls in Hell and the demons?
44:25 – Why do we believe that when we die we go to heaven and are not just asleep until Jesus comes again? Jesus says that Lazarus “is asleep” when he is dead so it seems as though we would all just be sleeping until Christ comes again
50:50 – When you go to Purgatory do you see other people in purgatory with you or those in Heaven, Angels, or even Jesus?
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Questions Covered:
16:00 – If the divine grace Christ merited can be “applied” at any point in time, why did the righteous have to wait in Abraham’s bosom?
19:12 – If it is taught that if you reach a certain level of charity, you can immediately go to heaven, but charity is solely to will the good the other, how does this other motive of getting to heaven not undercut what charity truly is?
25:06 – What is Limbo? Why was it removed? When did the doctrine of “universal salvation” emerge?
28:30 – Do we know what the sensation of purgatory is? Is it physically or spiritually painful? Will we be aware that we are in purgatory?
38:30 – My mom just passed away; we miss her. My dad asked that even though we know that she is happy in heaven, does she feel separation from us in the same way we feel separated from her? So, she wouldn’t be sad, but does she feel any lack like we feel without her?
46:43 – I just started reading “Purgatory is for Real” and I’m not clear on why if our sins are forgotten by God, why do we “dwell” on them in a sense, and why need purgatory at all?
2:32 – I suffer from scrupulosity. I tend to view God as a God who will send us to hell at the tiniest little mistake. How do I view God as a more loving and merciful God? Is it possible to go to hell if we are not sure if we committed a mortal sin or not?
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We ask Jimmy Akin, apologist and host of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, whether there is a Catholic way to understand the mind. Jimmy reviews some of the current thinking about what the mind is, and explains what a Catholic can, and cannot, accept.
Cy Kellett:
What is a mind anyway? Jimmy Akin is next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, very glad you are here with us. Hey, right up front, let me just say if you could maybe like and subscribe if you’re watching on Yo…
