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:
02:05 – I was raised Baptist and we were given an “altar call” in our services. Christ says we must be “born again” but Catholics don’t have “altar calls” at their Masses. We need to “offer up an invitation” for Christ to enter our hearts but Catholics never seem to do this.
14:20 – I have a difficulty with what is presented as “catholic social teaching” and Catholic doctrine. I go to a school that is very progressive but they bear a Catholic name. Horribly progressive teachings are taught under the guise of “catholic social teaching” and I’m confused as to why these don’t line up with Catholic dogmas or doctrine?
29:30 – The bible says that the dead will be risen when Christ comes again. How can Catholics pray to saints when they are not in Heaven yet?
39:16 – How do Catholics see grace? Is it created or uncreated? Where does grace come from?
45:55 – If Mary is the Immaculate Conception was she the only person that didn’t cause Jesus to suffer on the cross?
51:08 – I heard that when Mary married Joseph she intended to be a consecrated virgin even before the angel appeared to her. This doesn’t sound like a Catholic marriage but it doesn’t seem to be pro-life which is what I thought a Catholic marriage had to be?
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Question Covered:
11:42 – I’m not a religious person at all. I think a lot of religions “sell you a dream” but when you look into the history of the Catholic Church and see all the sexual abuse, slavery, killing etc. it is hard to see what the Catholic/Christian Faith actually stands for. How do you reconcile darker events in Church history with what the Catholic Faith teaches?
33:47 – I’m planning on going to RCIA but I am not catholic yet. I was baptized protestant. I believe I am a “born again Christian”. A Catholic woman I was talking to said “you cannot be born again and pray to Saints” but I thought this is what the Catholic Church teaches?
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How on Earth could it really be a mortal sin to miss Mass? This seems so harsh! Catholic Answers Apologist Karlo Broussard takes up a hard challenge as he defends the Catholic requirement to participate in Sunday Mass. There are exceptions, of course, but as Karlo makes clear, missing Mass is not a thing to take lightly.
Cy Kellett:
Seriously, it’s a mortal sin to miss mass? Karlo Broussard, next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and everybody’s got to…
Questions Covered:
04:15 – Can you explain why some translations in the DRB are missing from other Catholic Bibles?
13:30 – How do you explain to a Catholic that the Novus Ordo was not a change in form?
22:53 – I received advice from a Priest that it is permissible to experiment to decide whether some things are near occasions of sin. Is this true?
29:00 – How do I respond to the rumor that Benedict XVI is still the Pope?
33:45 – Do I have to believe in Marian apparitions?
37:30 – Why is it important that Mary is a perpetual virgin?
49:30 – What is the difference between the Catholic and Protestant views on substitutionary atonement?
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Questions Covered:
43:15 – What is it that changed after Vatican II that caused such division within the Church in the first place?
43:00 – Has Pope Francis considered the abuses in the Novus Ordo?
Resources Mentioned:
Sacrosanctum Concilium
Summorum Pontificum
Traditionis Custodes
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