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:
03:17 – Why is the diocese of Rome not an archdiocese?
06:27 – Are there secular arguments for the existence of human dignity?
11:55 – Did Our Lady ever mention that we should pray for the souls in purgatory, or is it something that the church asks us to do? Is purgatory mentioned in the bible? If there’s no purgatory, where do we go?
16:00 – What is astral projection? What is the difference between bilocation and astral projection?
24:03 – Is it ok for extraordinary ministers to retrieve the eucharist from the tabernacle? Or should only priests do so?
29:29 – If St. Therese died on Sept. 30th, why is her feast day celebrated on October 1st?
32:06 – Is it morally permissible for someone to plan a trip that would take him away from the ability to attend mass? Particularly in the context of explorers and pioneers.
37:13 – Could you talk about general judgement, and why do people with near death experiences never talk about judgement?
44:10 – I’m a convert, former protestant. One of my old professors talked about the God of the Old Testament. He said the Jews were “henotheists” and not monotheists. What is the difference and does the Catholic Church have a stance on it?
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Questions Covered:
01:15 – What do Catholics believe about acupuncture?
05:55 – Why do Catholics say Catholicism stems directly from Jesus and Protestantism does not?
15:40 – Where did the idea come from that the fruit on the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an apple?
22:40 – Why did Isaac bless Jacob if he lied about it instead of his brother?
29:05 – How is it that we still have free will if God knows what we’re going to do already?
36:00 – Are there any boundaries on alcohol consumption for Catholics? Is there anything in scripture that talks about it?
43:40 – I heard lyrics of a song that said “the wrath of God will satisfy”, but don’t Catholics believe something deeper than that?
50:25 – Why do Catholics hold miraculous medals, the rosary, etc. as significant to our beliefs?
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Questions Covered:
06:20 – If from the moment God creates us, he knows we’re predestined to heaven or hell, how do we have free choice?
15:20 – Why do Catholics believe in Purgatory? Specifically, the Biblical evidence.
21:19 – Could things like having our temperature taken on our forehead, or carrying our phones around in our hands, be signs of the Mark of the Beast? And would God make it something like that, that we might do without knowing?
23:15 – Why does the Church keep and venerate relics and saints’ bodies?
34:00 – What does the Church teach about organ donation and cremation?
40:15 – Why do Catholics believe they’re not allowed to hold God accountable to his own moral system?
46:25 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints?
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Being entirely objective, the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is the best building in the world! We ask Duncan Stroik, the founder of the Sacred Architecture Journal, to explain why this is, and why churches, and other buildings today, don’t match it.
Why don’t we build churches like St. Peter’s anymore? Architect Duncan Stroik is next.
Cy Kellett:
Duncan Stroik is Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame University and the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal. And we had the great, good fortune of having a visit from him here at Catholic Answers. So we sat down to talk wit…
Questions Covered:
02:25 – What would you say to someone that is interested in joining the church but the idea of having to go to a class to join the church is off-putting to them?
11:05 – I heard a point made from a person that the crumbs of the host of the holy eucharist is somewhat an exaggeration of reverence how it is treated. Back in ancient history when they used real bread, not wafer, when broken and shared, it inevitably made breadcrumbs fall on the ground and they did not treat it with as much prudence as they do now?
15:07 – Can a person with ADHD be at fault for the constant distractions that happen during Mass or prayer?
17:51 – I’ve heard of a Mass celebrated where the Homily was done through a video call, where the priest was in another location, and broadcasted in Mass as the Homily. Is this ok?
20:33 – Are Guitars and Drums allowed in mass? Also, is it good to have them used in liturgical celebrations?
23:02 – Should we as Catholics allow synthetic intelligences full voting rights?
28:58 – What is the best step a person can take to get over scrupulosity?
33:15 – Why do we call priests father? Doesn’t the Bible tell us that we’re not to call anybody father except God the father?
41:49 – How efficacious is mental prayer compared to verbal prayer? Should one ever be specifically used in place of the other?
44:27 – Is there any resource where it gives a Catholic summary or commentary of every chapter of every book in the Bible? Especially reading the Prophetic books, it kind of helps if there’s an explanation for each chapter.
47:07 – Can you explain why, if I’m understanding correctly, a marriage between two baptized protestants would be presumed valid while a marriage between a protestant and lapsed Catholic would not?
50:42 – How does one discern if they have given into a lustful thought?
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