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:
03:45 – My priest tends to make jokes to families during Baptism, is this proper?
08:00 – Does the Spirit of Truth from John Chapter 16 apply to every believer or just the magisterium?
12:40 – Does a Catholic in a civil marriage who is married to a non-Catholic need to get an annulment?
17:45 – Did Jesus wash the feet of Judas on Holy Thursday?
22:20 – When praying the Divine Mercy Chaplet how can I say I offer the body, blood, soul, and divinity?
29:30 – When they divided Jesus’s clothing, they were also called priestly garments. Do we know the ancient name or today’s equivalent name of the garments?
32:15 – Where in the bible do we get the criteria for proper marriage or an annulment?
36:10 – Is it appropriate to ask a priest for the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick before an open-heart surgery?
44:05 – How can I tell my adult children about getting an annulment?
52:10 – What is the best way to offer Mass for souls in Purgatory?
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Questions Covered:
09:30 – How do you respond to the argument that banning abortions will actually make them increase?
15:00 – Is forcing someone to continue a pregnancy conceived in rape a continuation of the original crime?
20:35 – When I change someone’s mind on abortion, how do I keep them from going back to being pro-choice?
23:30 – What should we say about women who are in tough pregnancies due to poverty or abusive partners?
28:45 – How do you respond to the claim that children born from unwanted pregnancies would become criminals?
32:15 – Is abortion ever medically necessary? Are cases like ectopic pregnancies real?
36:50 – When abortion rates started decreasing, did adoption rates start increasing?
43:00 – If one day we could fully grow a fetus outside of the womb, what would be the Catholic position on that?
50:15 – Is there a moral difference between a two-year-old and an unborn child? I don’t know if the Church teaches that.
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Questions Covered:
48:21 – I’m so glad you guys finally said this out loud! We don’t need to poke the bear!
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Questions Covered:
08:30 – Roe V. Wade document Leak
47:33 – I’ve been in the prolife movement since 1985. You’re right, most people in the movement are religious and those that are not, burn out quickly. Stigmatizing abortion helped to keep it in the spotlight. It showed what it really is.
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Questions Covered:
09:48 – How do I explain to my Catholic friends that when we pray to Mary, we are not taking glory away from God?
15:35 – I’m not Catholic but I’m trying to find in the bible that you will be blessed more if you give more. Where can I find that?
20:45 – Would it be reasonable for the Church to assert a lawsuit for plagiarism against those who teach heresy?
32:24 – Why does Mary have her own power? Why does she ask for shrines in her name?
41:45 – Is it ok to receive communion on one knee?
48:17 – After I apply a plenary indulgence to a departed soul, do I no longer have to pray for them?
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