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:
17:40 – What do you think the president and the speaker should do to keep the Church happy?
20:54 – Why is there talk of politicization of holy communion?
30:27 – How do we change minds on this issue?
35:20 – Why is it that banning people from receiving communion takes so long?
43:50 – I’m a registered nurse and the state board came out condemning the decision. How do I as a faithful Catholic handle this?
48:50 – Is it bad for me as a Catholic to blow off this topic and say, “It’s your body, your sin?”
52:00 – I think it’s important to emphasize the financial incentive for businesses to pay for abortion.
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Questions Covered:
10:43 – What do you think about Catholic organizations promoting homosexuality?
13:28 – How do you handle a response from Catholics who prop up priests who promote that lifestyle?
18:07 – How do I share my Faith with people and show them that there are good people who also struggle with same sex attraction?
24:29 – Should I attend a gay wedding that I was invited to?
33:08 – If I send a baby shower gift to a nephew and his gay partner who adopted be taken as promoting gay adoption?
42:48 – I’m bisexual and my wife knows that. I was almost married to a man. How would my spiritual life have been different if I had taken that path?
47:44 – I’m not Catholic, do Catholics have the same reservations about attending gay weddings as they do with 2nd weddings, cohabitating couples’ weddings etc.? Resource: https://ruthinstitute.org/
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Questions Covered:
16:04 – I’m very close to joining the Catholic Church but how do I make sense of Pope Francis and his actions, especially the restrictions on the Latin Mass and the pope praying with non-Catholics in non-Catholic ceremonies?
21:47 – Can a pope declare a private revelation to be necessary for salvation or for one to be considered Catholic?
30:59 – Pope St. John Paul II declared that he had no authority to ordain women, was that considered an infallible statement?
36:13 – If a pope says something that isn’t true, is that a danger to souls?
45:42 – Is it true that the pope can declare something about the Mass that a future pope could not undo?
49:29 – Because Jesus instituted the papacy, the pope cannot declare new things like ordaining women.
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Questions Covered:
02:22 – Do you have any advice regarding forgiveness?
09:03 – What is the nature of man? Is Jesus’ soul separate from His divine nature?
14:47 – Was Moses circumcised?
18:55 – What is the formal definition of tradition?
22:30 – How do Catholics defend the practice of penance in light of the parable of the Prodigal son?
28:46 – Is capital punishment immoral?
34:13 – Why did Jesus go after the money changers in the temple? What was the source of the anger?
39:40 – Is the Flavian signature a valid argument?
43:05 – Is there any gray area to consider a marriage between a Catholic and a Jewish person in a synagogue without the bishop’s dispensation to be valid?
47:24 – Why does Christ sometimes appear in the form of a baby in private revelations?
48:58 – Why does God allow suffering and even asks us to bring more children into this world?
50:50 – Who were the sons of God mentioned in Deut. 32 and Psalm 82? Were they fallen angels worshiped as pagan gods?
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Questions Covered:
03:02 – Does God’s omniscience make an infinite past impossible?
07:28 – Were there early church fathers that bought into Calvinism?
12:20 – Is there a distinction between fallen angels and demons?
16:29 – Why did they change the name from RCIA to OCIA?
20:31 – What are the requirements for becoming a deacon or apologist/religious leader?
29:29 – In Romans 2:25-26, what does Paul mean here? Doesn’t God stay faithful to His covenants with His people no matter what?
35:27 – How are our internal organs affected by the resurrected body?
40:50 – Considering the verse that calls Christ the cornerstone, could you explain the stability of the Catholic church?
46:38 – Were the places that the Israelites attacked in the book of Joshua military bases or civilian towns?
49:53 – What’s the difference between praying, desiring, and wishing?
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