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:
00:59 – Did Mary and Mary Magdalene also receive the gift to forgive sins since they were present when Jesus breathed on his disciples and commissioned them?
05:22 – If I’ve fallen away from the Church what do I need to do to return?
07:22 – Did Catholics chain up the bible and limit access to it? Is this true?
12:07 – How does one fully trust God for everything?
18:28 – What are your thoughts on the fracturing and divisions in the Catholic Church?
23:11 – Can one fulfill their Sunday obligation at an SSPX church? Are they in schism?
36:36 – I’m dating a girl who is staunchly protestant, and her mother is anti-Catholic. What’s the best way to share my faith with her?
45:40 – What happened in Europe that made it very atheistic but the faith was fairly preserved in the US?
49:34 – Is it ok to read books about the Nazi’s and the history of their rise without it leading me to sin?
52:24 – What is the Catholic interpretation of Jesus healing the paralytic in Mt 9:5-6 and forgiving his sins?
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Questions Covered:
04:09 – In the scenario that a person is changed into an object or an animal since the rational soul is the form of the body and the body changes, does that mean the person dies?
11:10 – 2 Tim 1:12-14 Does the Greek version indicate that the deposit will be preserved?
17:55 – I was baptized in the Mormon church. How do I go about being a part of the Catholic Church?
20:58 – How is prayer efficacious? I know God’s not a genie in a bottle.
29:48 – Didn’t the church prosecute Galileo for contradicting the churches flat-earth biblical models?
32:30 – How does the Catholic Church understand 2.Thess 2:15 specifically the oral tradition part? Is this the tradition of the Church?
37:19 – How do you reconcile middle knowledge and prophecy?
43:50 – What is your opinion on Louisa Piccerta and the Divine Will movement?
48:51 – Can someone know whether they have perfect or imperfect contrition?
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Questions Covered:
06:01 – Jerome made a comment on Titus 1:7 that the presbyters were basically the same as bishops, then there was a development that made the distinction between them, and also the papacy. How would you respond to that?
16:40 – Why do we have to learn God’s love language but he doesn’t have to learn ours? It seems like it’s a one-way relationship.
29:42 – I’ve been inquiring about Catholicism for a long time, and I agree with a lot of Catholic points. But I worry about a lot of liturgical abuse happening in the Church and that the Vatican doesn’t do anything about it. Any thoughts?
48:28 – If you are in friendship with God, but then commit a mortal sin and get hit by a train on the way to confession, do you go to Hell because you didn’t confess? Also, I have been told that Catholics are not required to confess to a priest, they can confess directly to God. How do you respond to that?
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Questions Covered:
01:30 – Cy and Tim discuss the Jubilee year.
29:00 – I have a Calvinist background, and realized I don’t believe in once saved always saved. Can you explain to me the Catholic view of losing salvation?
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Questions Covered:
01:21 – What are your thoughts on infallibility and keeping the tradition preserved from corruption? Do 1 Tim 1:12-14, 2 Jn 1:1-3 and 1 Pt 1:25 support the teaching of infallibility?
11:39 – Is Pope Gregory I the reason why we say, ‘God bless you’?
14:50 – Is Mary the mediatrix of all grace? Is she the shortest road to Christ? Is she even necessary?
23:04 – Is God’s love conditional? Does He love us more when we are in the state of grace?
29:09 – What dogmas have been declared on Adam and Eve?
39:45 – What does the Church think about non-sexual physical abuse by the parents?
47:02 – I was raised Muslim and am now in RCIA. Can you help clarify purgatory? It’s such a foreign concept to me.
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