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:
01:26 – In Revelation 12, it talks about how the woman has birth pains when delivering her son. Is there any evidence that this refers to Mary’s pain at the foot of the cross?
12:25 – From scripture, is there a difference between dogma and doctrine?
17:10 – Is there anything that describes if the prophecies of Isaiah have all come true?
20:41 – In Matthew 27:52-53 when all the people rose from the dead when Christ was crucified, why is it not recorded in any gospels other than Matthew? What kind of impact did it have on Jerusalem?
28:44 – In Samuel 4:1-11, the Philistines went and got the Ark of the Lord from Shiloh. What is the ark? Why did the Lord leave Israel to lose to the Philistines?
34:24 – When we pray in accordance with the scriptures, what scriptures are we referring to?
39:32 – What amount of awareness did Mary have during the passion of Christ?
44:58 – The New American Bible has a note that the 2nd story of creation in Genesis is a much older narrative than the 1st. Does this mean that the 2nd story was written before the 1st?
49:37 – In Matthew 24:34, what do you think about the events that must happen before the end of time? What did Jesus mean by “this generation”?
52:24 – When Jesus cursed the fig tree, was it just to teach a lesson or was he truly angry?
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Questions Covered:
02:54 – Did Jesus put himself in Mary’s womb since he’s God?
04:33 – I don’t think that Jesus was the Messiah. Why do Christians believe this?
12:52 – In 2nd Corinthians 5:18, it talks about the ministry of reconciliation. Is this approved text for the sacrament? If not, what does it mean instead?
20:22 – How can we interpret Romans 13:2 in reference to injustice in the world with the government? For example with the revolutionary war.
24:13 – Since only the Father knows the end of the world, does that mean that Jesus isn’t all knowing?
32:29 – Could you explain the typology of Mary being the Ark of the new covenant? Is it too far to say if someone touched her that they would die?
39:16 – In Mark Ch 3:21, Jesus’ family thought he was “out of his mind”. How does this fit in with the Catholic understanding of the holy family?
45:39 – Jesus said “I’m the way, the truth, and the life”. How do you get someone to understand that there’s a truth higher than their own?
50:06 – What kind of authority does the bible have if the Church is able to make decisions not based on the bible?
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Questions Covered:
08:12 – Are there any statues honoring Israelites who came from Bethlehem?
14:33 – What’s your view on receiving on the hand vs. on the tongue?
21:20 – What are the Nephilim, and how do we know that we’re completely human and not possibly descended from them?
30:08 – How would you respond to a Protestant who said the Church apostatized in the 200s century is the modern Catholic Church?
35:56 – Does chewing gum break the Eucharistic fast?
41:12 – Is there any possibility Ignatius can reissue St. Gregory’s prayer book in larger print?
43:49 – Catholic Community Radio….Do the Gospels recount things in chronological order?
50:30 – What’s the emphasis of the parable of the talents?
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Questions Covered:
03:47 – Do you know anything about The Healing of Families by Fr. Yozefu B. Ssemakula and whether it contains harmful falsehoods?
05:11 – Are Protestants who divorce and remarry (while still remaining Protestants) in adulterous relationships?
14:58 – My friend just delivered a premature baby. Her priest says he can’t baptize the baby because he can’t be touched inside the incubator. Is that correct?
19:21 – How do I respond to my Anglican friend who says that the Eucharist is simultaneously the Body and Blood of Christ and the bread and wine?
28:35 – What are the origins of depicting God as an old man and Jesus with long hair in religious art?
37:20 – How did John the Baptist end up living in the wilderness without his parents?
41:30 – My friend is going through a difficult time with his paranoid religious mom and I’m wondering if there’s anything I can share with him from a Catholic perspective that will help him out.
44:46 – How many times can you receive communion in a day?
46:55 – What’s the Bible’s advice about being vulnerable?
50:03 – Why is the priest allowed to dip the consecrated host in the precious blood before receiving, but the laity aren’t?
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Questions Covered:
19:30 – Should I fear purgatory?
28:40 – Does the apostolic pardon remove all temporal punishment, or is there some other thing you have to do like being completely detached from sin?
33:10 – Did I answer my granddaughter correctly when she asked me “If purgatory is real, why did Jesus die?”
41:00 – If we pray for the souls in purgatory, do they know who prays for them? And is it okay to hear several masses for them, or is one sufficient?
46:50 – It’s a good idea to begin suffering in this life so we don’t rely on purgatory too much.
51:30 – Is it possible to prove that purgatory exists?
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