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:
02:35 – How do I explain to someone that when we pray and bow to God it’s worship, but when we do it to Mary it’s not? And how do I address someone who says that when we pray to saints it’s actually praying to demons?
15:14 – How do we respond to an atheist who says it doesn’t matter how you live because Catholics believe you just have to go to confession and get your sins forgiven?
22:40 – What’s the Catholic definition of apocryphal books? And why do we sometimes refer to the author of a book in the Bible as “the inspired author” when we usually know who they are?
28:40 – If we could convert aliens, could they become priests?
34:10 – Do you know anything about remote neural monitoring and whether that’s how the antichrist plans to take over the world?
42:14 – Why don’t Protestants accept that Peter is the rock that Jesus built his Church on?
45:00 – What’s the actual job of the guardian angels? And what’s the difference between a guardian angel and an archangel?
48:40 – How authoritative is the Didache in the Catholic Church? If it has authority, why don’t we refer to it more often?
50:28 – How can I get a rosary?
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Questions Covered:
03:35 – Can a Catholic date a non-Catholic who hasn’t had their annulment yet?
10:10 – Is it possible that the good thief, since he was crucified with Jesus, could have received the same effects from that as baptism?
14:30 – When I was young I heard that in the future we’d have backpacks that would allow us to transport through the air. Do you know if anything like that was ever developed?
17:35 – Pope Francis has said that all religions are willed by God. Is that actually a Catholic teaching if the Church has said there’s no salvation outside the Church?
21:20 – How can I talk about Catholicism with someone who doesn’t care about denominations and says it’s just about Jesus?
28:38 – At our final judgement, is it possible that God would let us simply choose heaven or hell?
38:00 – My protestant friend is asking me about the “Chrislam Temple,” which will be an interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi uniting a church, a synagogue and a mosque. She says it’s a sign that we’re heading towards a one world religion and the end times. What do you think?
44:50 – What do you know about St. Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People? What can we get from it and is it worth reading?
48:05 – I’ve heard that if you miss the Gospel reading at Sunday mass, you can’t receive the Eucharist and it doesn’t fulfill your Sunday obligation. Is that true?
51:40 – One time a priest didn’t give me a penance after confession. Was it a valid confession?
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Questions Covered:
05:00 – I’m not Catholic because I don’t think the Church stands up enough on social issues.
17:27 – Someone told me he “wants nothing to do with the white Jesus.”
22:13 – I believe many Catholic dogmas were not present in the early Church.
34:04 – I’m thinking about leaving the Church because of lukewarm preaching. When I joined it seemed like they were more courageous, but now it seems like it’s gotten bad.
42:57 – What makes Catholicism more true or accurate than other Christian sects?
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Questions Covered:
11:28 – I was raised Baptist, and I have an issue with the difference between the books in Catholic and Protestant bibles.
20:31 – I’m not Catholic because of the idol worship.
29:53 – I’m a Jehovah’s Witness. Why should I be Catholic?
42:21 – I believe the Catholic Church is a front for false worship.
49:35 – I have a huge issue with how the Church handled all the sexual abuse.
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Netflix goes heavy Catholic in its series Midnight Mass. But does it get the Catholic view of death right? Apologist Joe Heschmeyer joins us for a discussion of the various takes on death presented in Midnight Mass.
Cy Kellett:
Catholic take on Netflix’s Midnight Mass, Joe Heschmeyer 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, and one thing that we know in this movie era, in this era of the moving image, the Catholic church looks good on film. And they did it again in a n…
