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:
16:00 – If the divine grace Christ merited can be “applied” at any point in time, why did the righteous have to wait in Abraham’s bosom?
19:12 – If it is taught that if you reach a certain level of charity, you can immediately go to heaven, but charity is solely to will the good the other, how does this other motive of getting to heaven not undercut what charity truly is?
25:06 – What is Limbo? Why was it removed? When did the doctrine of “universal salvation” emerge?
28:30 – Do we know what the sensation of purgatory is? Is it physically or spiritually painful? Will we be aware that we are in purgatory?
38:30 – My mom just passed away; we miss her. My dad asked that even though we know that she is happy in heaven, does she feel separation from us in the same way we feel separated from her? So, she wouldn’t be sad, but does she feel any lack like we feel without her?
46:43 – I just started reading “Purgatory is for Real” and I’m not clear on why if our sins are forgotten by God, why do we “dwell” on them in a sense, and why need purgatory at all?
2:32 – I suffer from scrupulosity. I tend to view God as a God who will send us to hell at the tiniest little mistake. How do I view God as a more loving and merciful God? Is it possible to go to hell if we are not sure if we committed a mortal sin or not?
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We ask Jimmy Akin, apologist and host of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, whether there is a Catholic way to understand the mind. Jimmy reviews some of the current thinking about what the mind is, and explains what a Catholic can, and cannot, accept.
Cy Kellett:
What is a mind anyway? Jimmy Akin is next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, very glad you are here with us. Hey, right up front, let me just say if you could maybe like and subscribe if you’re watching on Yo…
Questions Covered:
02:33 – I am evangelical and I have a question for Mr. Staples about apostolic succession.
15:46 – Ever since the Pope’s letter came out, I have been trying to find the “new” (Novus Ordo) mass in Latin, but I can’t find one. Why isn’t this form of the Mass being promulgated?
26:33 – I have a family member who does not believe in the divinity of Jesus because there is only one God. How do I answer him?
34:35 – I’m getting ready to start RCIA and I wanted to know what the Catholic Church teaches about “binding and loosing”. I also had my kids dedicated. I know it’s not the same as baptism, but does it hold any weight?
44:27 – Does Romans Ch. 7 negate mortal sin and turn it into venial sin?
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Questions Covered:
1:42 – Bishop Barron questions if anyone is in hell and he says there is no church teaching on who is in hell. Are there people in hell and can we know if there are?
11:48 – Can Tim help me formulate an answer to the pro-choice argument that pregnancy is extremely dangerous and so therefore abortion is okay?
23:29 – Why does the Pope come out with the Motu Proprio but not come down strongly on politicians who are pro-choice and still receive communion?
39:44 – Why should I be Catholic?
44:29 – How do I answer the claim that St. Augustine was a Calvinist made by my protestdent friends?
46:20 – I’m an orthodox Christian and I’m discerning marriage with a Roman Catholic girl. I really cherish the tradition we have of infant baptism, confirmation, and communion happening all at the same time. Why doesn’t the Roman Catholic church have this tradition? How can you claim the fullness of the faith without doing this?
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Questions Covered:
14:40 – How would I respond to a friend who keeps sinning and going to confession as a “ticket out” (and not stopping sinning)?
20:40 – What can you do about confession if you’re not yet a Catholic?
32:11 – A few times when I went to confession I forgot my penance. Is my confession valid?
36:35 – Why do we have to confess mortal sin and not venial?
42:00 – When did we start having private confessions?
48:19 – I had not gone to confession in over 40 years and went earlier this year. But then I remembered additional mortal sins after I had gone to confession. What do I need to do?
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