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:
24:20 – Being a young adult fresh out of college, how do I maintain a consistent prayer life working a 9-5 job. How can lay people be held accountable?
36:14 – How do you gain wisdom?
48:22 – My fiancé and I are going through RCIA and using Dr. Sri’s video, I missed some lessons, where else can I watch?
50:41 – I recently returned to the Church and all of my sins were forgiven through attrition how do I get to contrition?
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Who gets to say what a religion is, and why do “World Religions” classes so often fail in their approach to Christian Faith? Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church Was the Catholic Church, explores the politics around the word “religion.”
Cy Kellett:
Why modern definitions of religion get Christianity wrong. Joe Heschmeyer is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answer’s podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett your host and one of the things we might have to defend our Catholic faith agai…
Questions Covered:
17:24 – It’s sad to see that people are replacing children with animals.
21:00 – Would the 2 greatest commandments be a good response to “live your best life?”
38:57 – How do you I talk to my friends about why marriage shouldn’t necessarily be about making you “happy” when happiness is pushed as the ultimate goal?
42:42 – Where can young couples find a resource for things like NFP and other Church teaching on marriage?
45:50 – How does the Catholic Faith respond to other faiths and their fruitfulness if the Church claims that they are the one way?
47:42 – You can learn from the negative and not just the positive especially in divorce.
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Questions Covered:
15:16 – None of the police forces have demilitarized since 2020. Since peace is important, what is your opinion on threat protocols? Can we do something in the culture to reduce that?
22:40 – Is it a sin to want your child to marry within your race?
36:23 – I had a black Catholic friend who wanted me to read White Fragility. How do I respond to her who wants me to focus the conversation from a secular perspective?
44:12 – I have a daughter who is involved with BLM and I feel resentful that they are teaching her that I am racist. What would be better, to address it more forcefully or wait and pray?
52:55 – Are division and racism ways of dividing our Church?
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Questions Covered:
02:54 – Whichever of the standard folklore approaches one takes to faeries, it seems like it would be unusual for a faery to be baptized. Which in turn opens up some interesting questions about what’s going on with Cinderella having a faery as a godmother.
Maybe there’s an order of fair folk who returned to the faith, were baptized, and do good works on behalf of mortals.
They’re probably also suspected and persecuted by the institutional church. But Cinderella’s family is part of the remnant which maintains a connection with them.
Maybe this also has to do with why the stepmother treats Cinderella badly: the stepmother is an outsider and suspects what’s going on in the family history and she’s putting pressure on Cinderella to try to make her renounce her pietism.
Which of course makes it extremely dodgy to have someone with a faery godmother marrying into the royal family. There’s going to be some resistance to that.
Is there reconciliation? Is the country placed under interdict? Why don’t the stories address this stuff?
I have a few questions regarding the Soul Gem, one of the six Infinity Gems of Marvel Comics. Here I am specifically referring to the comic version, versus the film version. I do not know how much you know about the Infinity Gems, so here is some important background info:
— They were created as part of the Universe in the Big Bang
— Each allows for complete universal control over a different aspect of the universe: power, space, reality, the mind, the soul, and time.
1) 11:23 – The Soul Gem can warp and unwarp the soul. This means it can forcefully make beings evil or good. Thanos says: “I can turn sinners into saints, and saints into monsters.” Question: What effect does this have on free will, the need for God’s forgiveness, and Purgatory?
2) 14:39 – The Soul Gem can resurrect the dead. Thanos says, “And the dead, — their souls are also within my control.” Question: If someone was in Heaven and was resurrected, could they theoretically end up in Hell after they die a second time? What about going from Hell to Heaven?
3) Question: 17:06 – Could the Soul Gem fix Original Sin?
18:25 – What would happen to your soul if you were assimilated by the Borg? Let’s assume that the cybernetic implants and the nanoprobes keep your body alive indefinitely, you are never killed, and you are never rescued.
20:16 – Before the fall, did Adam and Eve have to poop? And if so, would their poop have been stinky? Or would they have had perfect poop? Or would they not have pooped at all, and the digestion was perfect, with no need to poop.
22:41 – Is it possible to validly baptize an unborn baby? I’m thinking of an instance where maybe the mother is dying and the baby is not developed enough to survive outside the womb. If it is not possible, does the reasoning implicitly contradict the church’s teaching on life beginning at conception?
If it is possible to validly baptize an unborn baby in emergency situations, then what about non-emergency situations? It seems like it would be a good idea just in case something happens before the baby is born.
29:30 – What criteria would the Catholic Church have to consider if someone wanted to marry an alien?
Would the couple have to prove they can consummate the marriage?
Would they have to come up with some way to prove that they are the equivalent of the opposite sex?
What if any child they bear might have severe disabilities because of mixing species?
To that end, the Church is against bestiality, so would they have to come up with some criteria to distinguish human from beast?
34:40 – Why do all representations of the cross depict the corpus with a wound on the right side when the heart and plural sac are on the left? Would blood and water gush forth from the right side when a spear pie…
