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:
05:26 – I heard that we need to pray for the souls in purgatory because they can’t pray for themselves. If that’s the case, how can they pray for us?
05:26 – I’m wondering if this is a good argument against a neutral, mechanistic universe: life seems to strive towards self-existence, so that’s a decidedly positive direction as opposed to a neutral naturalism.
11:18 – As a Catholic, am I allowed to donate to a deceased person’s memorial fund if it goes towards the formation of Assembly of God ministers?
13:57 – How do I have an answer for the Catholics who don’t believe in the real presence?
18:37 – Some people use the passage in Numbers 5, where the priest gives a woman accused of adultery a concoction that will cause a miscarriage, to say that the Bible supports abortion. What do you make of that?
28:57 – Why is the pope tolerating the patriotic Church in China?
31:53 – What can I say to my wife who left the Church because of bad catechesis and priests who don’t “preach from the heart?”
44:15 – I work for an insurance company that wants to be the broker for a cannabis supplier. Is that moral within church teaching?
49:32 – Why isn’t the blood of Christ reserved in the tabernacle after Mass?
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Questions Covered:
4:11 – Do the saints who go to heaven bypass purgatory because they’ve become perfectly sanctified or is there another reason like a special grace?
08:19 – Is Jimmy a fan of the Ozark Mountain Daredevils?
14:30 – Is it sinful to watch media that takes the Lord’s name in vain?
18:40 – What would the feeling be if we were in heaven but our loved ones didn’t make it? Would we be sad?
22:50 – What’s the best way to introduce my significant other to Catholicism?
28:25 – How accurate is C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy scientifically?
33:15 – It seems like we don’t have free will because our choices are either caused or uncaused. If they’re uncaused, then they’d be random; but if they’re caused, there’d be a chain of causality going back outside ourselves so they wouldn’t be our choices. What’s the Catholic resolution to this?
45:08 – Where is hell?
48:06 – Should I have a litmus test for a parish before I join?
50:48 – If the priest prays the apostolic prayer over you before you die, do you skip purgatory?
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The Jews of Jesus’ time, like Jews today, prayed for the dead. Apologist Joe Heschmeyer looks at how Jesus and the early Church responded to this widespread practice and finds strong evidence that the Lord intended his Church to continue it.
Cy Kellett:
God’s people have always prayed for the dead. Joe Heschmeyer is next. A shocking change occurred when in the 16th century some Christians began to teach that we could not or should not pray for the dead. Jesus never said any such thing, nor did the apostles or the gospel writers, which raises a question.
Cy Kellett:
If the Jews pra…
Questions Covered:
03:57 – My girlfriend is non-Catholic and doesn’t understand why she and her family can’t have confession and the Eucharist, and also why I need them if it’s possible for non-Catholics to go to heaven without them.
10:05 – I heard a rabbi claim that the Jesus that Christians believe in is a false Jesus. Why don’t the Jewish people believe in Jesus?
15:38 – How does the necessity of baptism square with the idea that those who haven’t heard of Catholicism can be saved?
23:28 – How could an all-loving God allow such horrible suffering like in the Holocaust?
29:11 – If I’m praying for something, but then remember more intentions as I’m praying it, does that make the prayer progressively less powerful for each, like it’s being divided?
31:49 – I was in a major car accident and am in a lot of pain and sometimes can’t make it to mass. My Catholic doctor tells me to offer it up and that I’m saving souls in purgatory. Also my daughter had my granddaughter baptized Lutheran and won’t have anything to do with the Catholic Church. I just really need some guidance.
35:59 – I understand we get a plenary indulgence if we go to mass on All Souls’ Day. What do we have to say or do for it? Also, if we pray at a cemetery, do we get a second indulgence?
41:02 – Have you heard of the book Psychic Wholeness and Healing by Conrad Baars and Anna Terruwe? It’s a Thomistic approach to psychology and I’m wondering if it’s trustworthy.
44:27 – Can you pray for Jesus?
46:00 – How should we make jokes? And how should we react to sinful joking?
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