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:
01:35 – Why do we believe that a child confirmed under a different Christian religion would not be a valid sacrament in the Catholic Church?
07:18 – If God is love, does God’s love equal sanctifying grace?
15:15 – Why is there music in Church?
18:57 – Why do we believe in purgatory?
23:21 – Why could Jesus never be left alone during adoration?
29:30 – Why would a marriage not be valid if it wasn’t celebrated in a Church for a Catholic?
33:40 – Why does the Church reach out to the communion of saints and not to pray to the dead?
39:57 – I’m a Protestant, how is sin not totally paid for on the cross?
51:10 – Why does it take so long to be baptized as a Catholic?
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Question Covered:
04:32 – Why can we say that creedal statements of the 4th Lateran Council can be infallible when we have to stretch it to sound Catholic?
17:27 – Why do we believe that it’s the Holy Spirit that enables us to speak in tongues, specifically the babbling?
25:05 – Why does divorce disqualify you in some cases from receiving communion?
33:22 – Why do we have the three criteria for something to be a mortal sin? Has it always been like this since the beginnings of the Church?
42:12 – Why are some promises from saints approved and others not? Examples of the St. Brigid of Sweden’s promises and her visions of Jesus.
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Questions Covered:
01:05 – Is there any reference to Papal infallibility in the Old Testament?
11:10 – What is your favorite version of the Bible and why?
14:26 – Is there Biblical proof for the Eucharist?
18:27 – In Matthew 27, what is meant by the passage that says, “many saints who slept rose from the dead”?
21:49 – How many people in the Bible are referred to as the “Son of Man”?
33:00 – Why does the Catholic Bible have more books than the Protestant Bible?
36:19 – What is the Catholic understanding of Revelation 2:9?
42:15 – Were there any exorcists in the Old Testament?
46:40 – How do I answer my Protestant friend who claims that only in “66 books” is the truth of the Bible?
49:15 – The parable of the wedding feast this past week has me concerned about merit and salvation. Can you explain it further?
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Questions Covered:
09:35 – Even though Christ’s blood is continuing, does Christ’s suffering continue?
13:30 – Are there passages that discourage women from being teachers?
18:06 – In Ezekiel 34:16, what is meant by “sleek”?
21:54 – What do you think of the Scofield Reference Bible?
29:03 – Does the phrase “let the dead bury the dead” imply that we should leave people in our lives who are spiritually dead, even spouses and family members?
33:25 – In the Book of Revelation, there is a reference to saints on earth. How can this be possible?
39:21 – What does the Gospel from this past Sunday mean?
41:53 – Were people baptized by John the Baptist validly Baptized?
46:28 – Is there Biblical evidence that Jesus did not have siblings?
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Questions Covered:
01:06 – Why should I go to a Catholic Church when the non-denominational church that I like going to is also preaching the truth?
07:00 – Are there any Catholic alternative voices that support a minimalistic approach to natural law?
13:50 – How do we reconcile the discrepancy in Matthew and Luke regarding when the birth of Christ occurred?
21:08 – Where in the bible does it say that we are wounded by original sin and not totally depraved?
34:55 – If a person was baptized later in life and had committed terrible sins, would baptism remove the need for purgatory for those sins?
37:09 – What genre of literature in the book of Genesis?
42:46 – The Baltimore Catechism says that in order to enter heaven you have to get to know, love and serve God. Which of the three is most important?
46:13 – How do we reconcile Adam and Eve and the evolution of homo sapiens?
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