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:
03:02 – 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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Questions Covered:
01:46 – I grew up attending Spanish speaking mass and now I go to English Mass. I noticed that a lot more people receive communion in the English-speaking Mass. Is this a catechetical thing? Why is this?
10:12 – Why didn’t Jesus tell Mary that he was going to go to God’s house in Jerusalem?
14:11 – Luke 10:25 How is Jesus answering that question? It is vague. Why don’t we stress the deity of Christ instead of the divinity of Christ?
21:06 – What does the Church teach about deliverance prayer?
28:46 – St. Thomas More’s reflection asking for happiness. Should this be something we should be praying for?
34:00 – I was an OB/GYN for many years and was once asked to perform a baptism. Would using salt water and a syringe impact the validity of the baptism?
41:36 – How do I prove that infant baptisms are valid and being at the age of reason is not necessary?
47:08 – Is it ok as a Catholic to watch documentaries such as the Ed Warren cases on demons?
51:00 – How many physical bodies are in heaven according to the Church?
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Questions Covered:
09:01 – What was the creation of Jesus like? Begotten not made? Was he created since he is the Son God not Father God?
14:32 – If a bishop claims he is afraid of death, should we also be afraid of death?
21:45 – Do we know if the pope listens to Catholic radio, EWTN or Catholic Answers?
29:18 – Is it wrong to wait a few days to go to confession after committing venial sin? What’s the gravity of venial sin vs mortal sin?
38:14 – I was baptized as a Baptist at 8. Then I was baptized by a Sedevacantist priest and now am in full communion with Rome. What sins would I have to confess because I don’t know when I was validly baptized?
46:51 – Is the Deut. 32:8 worldview in The Unseen Realm by Michael Heiser compatible with Catholicism?
51:17 – In the Exodus story, did God take away Pharaoh’s free will when he hardened his heart? How do we understand that phrase?
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Have you seen the recent images from the James Webb Telescope? Catholic convert and Harvard astrochemist, Karin Öberg joins us to examine the recent images and what they tell us about God, the beginnings of our universe, and bug people.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Recently, we all got to see some magnificent images from a magnificent piece of technology, the James Webb Telescope. Out there in space, somewhere, looking deep into the past using its various sensors. And this raises a tremendou…
Questions Covered:
4:27 – What’s the Church’s teaching on cannibalism in extreme circumstances? Is it ever ethical?
11:50 – Regarding the teaching on following your conscience, how could one do so if you’re highly scrupulous? What is the Church’s approach when it comes to mental illness?
20:40 – Can you clarify why there are different perspectives on Old Testament covenants and why some say the signs are different? The Mosaic covenant is either the 10 commandments vs Passover. The Davidic: Throne vs Temple
29:20 – Is our concupiscence a result of our free will? If Adam and Eve had not sinned, would someone else have sinned?
36:50 Since Covid, we haven’t been able to consume communion from the chalice. Does this mean we aren’t receiving the blood of Jesus?
42:27 – Why don’t we as Catholics focus on baptism of the Holy Spirit? The Charismatic renewal has been focusing on this for 50 years now.
48:07 – Do Catholics follow the sabbath? How do you reconcile this with Isaiah 66:22-23?
52:30 – If someone is baptized with Trinitarian formula but doesn’t believe in the Trinity, is it a valid baptism?
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