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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
03:13 – What is the Catholic view on the nature of reality?
10:38 – Sometimes when the Bible speaks about the end times, it describes great disasters and apocalyptic events. However, Jesus also says he’ll come like a thief in the night. How do we reconcile these?
16:53 – If God has no potential, how do we explain Mt. 19:26 and Mk. 14:36?
19:05 – Where were Lazarus’s sisters when he was suffering and dying? Why weren’t they helping him?
29:00 – Can you tell me about the priestly lines of Aaron, David, and Melchizedek, how they are connected with the Priesthoods of Noah and Adam, which was the line(s) of Jesus, which lines are today’s Catholic priests, and if there are any other priestly lines?
36:45 – Since the Last Supper took place during the passover meal, what would it have looked like from a cultural standpoint when Jesus instituted the Eucharist in the middle of the meal?
42:18 – Do Protestants go to purgatory even though they don’t believe in it?
43:45 – Why can’t we repent after death?
48:50 – Why does Jesus say heaven and earth will pass away when heaven is infinite?
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Questions Covered:
11:00 – What is baptism in the Holy Spirit? Is this different from baptism with water? Is it legitimate?
17:15 – Where is the biblical evidence for baptism for infants? John only baptized adults.
23:00 – Can lay people baptize in an emergency? And if so, can the person who was baptized be re-baptized later on?
31:10 – I have a 9 mo. old grandson and I’m trying to get him baptized and I’m wondering if I can baptize him in a protestant church and still raise him Catholic?
36:36 – I would like the Catholic understanding of original sin vs. the protestant understanding of original sin in relation to baptism.
46:42 – Some of my grand-children are not baptized and I’m very worried and I’m wondering how I can encourage them to get baptized?
52:24 – What is baptism of desire? I had a granddaughter born 2 weeks ago who needed open heart surgery and her parents refused to baptize her.
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Why is studying the Bible in college so often injurious to faith? Is it because scientific investigation of the Bible has the power to debunk it? Or could there be something wrong with the way modern scholarship engages with the Word of God? Scott Hahn, co-author of The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture, takes us on a seven-century journey toward answering these questions.
Cy Kellett:
Have the experts ruined scripture? Scott Hahn, next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. One of the great explai…
Questions Covered:
02:15 – What is the Church’s position on speaking in tongues?
07:17 – Is the description of the appearance of angels symbolic for their glory?
16:31 – How do I convince my friend of the perpetual virginity of Mary?
28:39 – Would it be prudent to have a wedding reception at a masonic (as in Free Masons) center?
31:55 – Why didn’t we just keep using Latin in the Mass and just teach people Latin so that we really would be one united church, united under one language?
43:39 – I want to give Cy and Tim a compliment. A general question about king David.
48:27 – Can second cousins marry?
50:46 – I am new to Christianity and I am wondering where Judas Iscariot is right now?
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