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
What do Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, and Jesse Duplantis have in common? They all promote a form of Christianity that preaches a good and easy life. Tim Staples breaks down the reasons why the prosperity gospel is dangerous and exposes the pitfalls of this theology.
Cy Kellet:
Tim Staples, Catholic Apologist, thanks for being with us.
Tim Staples:
It is great to be with you, Cy Kellet.
Cy Kellet:
I want to talk to you about the prosperity gospel. And this is something that really is big. The prosperity gospel is really big, and I do sometimes feel a pang of guilt that we don’t talk ab…
Questions Covered:
05:08 – When we commit mortal sin, besides confession, what else can we do to avoid purgatory?
14:32 – Why be Catholic and not just a Protestant Christian?
20:16 – I’m in a conversation with a Baptist and they asked: how do we know that tradition is divinely inspired? How do I respond?
31:14 – Acts 20:29-30 How do we know that the pope and priests aren’t the people that will lead people away from Christ?
37:30 – Why were other books like the Gospel of Thomas not included in the bible? Should they have been included since they mention more about the early life of Jesus?
46:12 – Is the Church able to teach heresy? Church indefectibility
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Questions Covered:
22:00 – do they say that you can’t receive the Eucharist if you’ve committed a mortal sin?
33:37 – Is there a correlation between the Eucharist and how we are made in the image of the Holy Trinity?
45:12 – How often is the Eucharist supposed to be offered and why?
47:45 – I did RCIA under Dr. Feingold and am a recent convert. Can you talk about why God chooses to use physical things to be bridges to the eternal?
52:30 – I’m a Lutheran, why do Catholics have the sacrificial part? I don’t see it.
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Questions Covered:
21:15 – My daughter has bipolar and is in and out of hospitals. How do I fight hopelessness if nothing changes?
30:50 – My 15-year-old daughter struggles with anxiety and depression. How can I help her as a mother?
38:05 – I’m training to be a childhood counselor. Can you give me preventative advice to avoid anxiety, depression and hopelessness?
38:03 – The thing that helped me was to draw a line in the sand. And not let the darkness in.
51:16 – Do you have recommendations on things I can do and say to help our society that is so politically divided? We no longer see each other as neighbors, and it causes lots of anxiety.
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Questions Covered:
02:15 – I’m protestant, I grew up thinking Catholic symbolism was idol worship. Where did we go wrong in that thinking?
10:10 – Is God both merciful and just? How does this manifest itself on the cross?
17:00 – Is the idea that Anglicanism is not valid an indefinite teaching in the Catholic Church?
22:06 – Both cremation and communion in the hand became permissible in the 1960’s. A. What’s the most proper way of disposing of a body? B. When and why did communion in the hand become universal?
30:01 – Why isn’t the Church using extraordinary ministers of holy communion or deacons to go give communion at hospitals?
32:09 – If Jesus is all merciful and we should be like him, should we be imprisoning murderers and thieves?
37:52 – What is the Church’s stance on the Old Catholic Church?
44:15 – What is the significance of doing a pilgrimage? What is the best way to prepare for one?
47:56 – Is it ok for Catholics to cross-dress in situations like theater or cosplay? What’s the best way to respond to the pro-abortion reply that Catholics are pro-life because it was started in a time of misogyny?
52:43 – Jesus said, “Let the dead bury the dead.” Did he mean physically or spiritually?
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