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
Live from the first day of the Catholic Answers Conference!
Questions Covered:
02:50 – How do we reach the younger generation who’s no longer on traditional media and are hearing a lot of falsehoods on the new media?
13:05 – Is it worth arguing against wrong ideas in a college classroom, or is it better to wait?
17:45 – What’s the Church’s teaching on laypeople baptizing a relative?
28:30 – Do you have any suggestions on how to open the minds of children as young as 13 and 14 who have so little interest in even knowing who they are and why they exist?
32:54 – How can I talk to my Seventh-Day Adventist friends who say the Jewish ritual food laws still apply?
38:46 – When does ensoulment occur?
47:45 – How do I answer people who ask why we should follow a Bible in which God commands murder of entire peoples?
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Live from the first day of the Catholic Answers Conference!
Questions Covered:
02:15 – How was the Church able to determine if Hebrews belonged in the Bible if we didn’t know the human author?
06:12 – The two big historical stories from Genesis are Abraham and Joseph—what credibility can we give to the stories outside of the Bible itself?
15:15 – How literally should we take seventy times seven? Not mathematically, but should we really forgive over and over if someone keeps hurting us?
22:14 – Can you offer up your Purgatorial process to help someone reach heaven?
28:30 – Are getting to heaven and the reward in heaven two different things?
37:44 – What did Pope Francis mean by not making the Eucharist a political matter?
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Questions Covered:
02:30 – If a pitcher intends to deceive a batter with a pitch, is this considered lying?
07:20 – What is the point of having a priest offer a sacrifice at the altar when Jesus is interceding for us before the Father?
14:53 – Lisa…Mounds, OK…EWTN app….Why did John the Baptist send emissaries out to find out who Jesus was? Didn’t he know who he was as his cousin?
18:34 – Is there a theological justification for saying “G—D— it”? Like, I want God to take this bad thing I did and get it as far away from me as possible.
22:10 – Why is the COVID-19 vaccine so controversial when other very common vaccines are made with the same connection to abortion? Why isn’t there as much controversy over those?
28:41 – What should I do about the seeming disconnect between Catholic groups and clergy on the morality of vaccines? How should I interpret the different statements between what Bishops say and what Catholics around me say?
35:27 – When did the celestial battle between the devil and the angels take place?
40:00 – Why doesn’t the Church issue anathemas anymore?
44:05 – What is Jesus’s origin? Was he born in time, or was he from all eternity through the Father?
46:03 – Why did Vatican II change who could touch the host? Before, only the priest could, but now other people can too.
51:20 – How do we know which verses in the Bible we can interpret for ourselves and which ones have a fixed, doctrinally defined meaning?
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Questions Covered:
03:00 – If the Church is infallible and the Pope upholds infallible doctrines, how is it possible that the Church could have ever needed reform?
07:07 – If contraception is immoral for humans, then is it okay to neuter animals?
12:07 – How are Luke 11:52 and Mt. 23:13 related to the keys that Jesus gave to St. Peter?
16:45 – Why is Mary called “Tower of David,” “Tower of Ivory,” and “House of Gold” in the Litany of the Blessed Virgin? What are the origins of those titles?
20:58 – How can we merit salvation in a state of grace when we’re already saved?
30:10 – What is non-Incarnational Protestantism and how is it different from Catholicism?
33:26 – Why is the nullification process so intimate? It asks very difficult questions about the couple’s intimacy and past.
42:16 – Are the people in heaven aware that there are people in hell?
48:09 – Is it risky to ask the Saints for prayer, since we’re not certain that they’re in heaven?
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Do you have trouble with the Sacrament of Reconciliation? Not sure about? Don’t know quite what to say? Father Hugh Barbour gives a brief lesson on what really happens in confession, and offers tips on how to make confessing part of your life.
Cy Kellett:
What does confessing to a priest actually do? Father Hugh Barbour is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. How I’m making Jesus happy. Is that a real thing? Can you make Jesus happy? Well, one of the great insights that Father Hugh share…
