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:
03:30 – Was Mary perfect before she gave birth to Jesus?
07:00 – Why did Vatican II happen?
17:18 – Why are Ouija boards sinful?
21:53 – How should I respond to a person who is transgendered and asks me to use incorrect pronouns?
31:00 – Why did Joseph and Mary abstain from sexual relations?
50:05 – Did Jesus have a guardian angel, and could he see that angel
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Questions Covered:
05:30 – What is Free Grace theology and why is it unbiblical?
15:05 – Would it be wrong to recommend a video game to my friend who believes they are immoral?
22:15 – Is it true that Abraham never saw Sara after he went to sacrifice Isaac?
29:01 – How dark and gruesome can my writing get before it’s immoral?
36:00 – How can a person’s mental illness persist despite his receiving the Sacraments?
42:30 – What is the morality of literature and games that contain elements of magic, witchcraft, and fictional gods?
48:45 – What is the church teaching regarding tattoos?
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What does the Church teach about the human body?
Questions Covered:
18:32 – If a person’s soul leaves his body, is it still the same person? Is that body a different person at that point?
34:12 – Besides DNA, human bodies are made up of the same elements, one of them being water. How does the Church determine the uniqueness of each person, besides seeing that their DNA is different?
44:50 – I think there are some people in the secular world making the same realizations about sexual ethics and the human body that the Catholic Church has already established. I think if they investigate further, they will find that the Church is teaching the same things that they are discovering.
Resources Mentioned:
What is a Human?
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Jerry and Debbie tackle the questions that have arisen as the pandemic restrictions lift and life starts heading back to normal. How can people best re-enter relationships and society after such a long and challenging year?
Questions Covered:
08:00 – Post-covid, I have been seeing life really opening up here in Washington. I have been enjoying seeing the changes.
13:35 – I am still afraid of the virus and don’t feel it’s over yet. I still wear masks. I have been afraid to go to Mass. This is really wearing on me.
20:01 – I work in healthcare with patients who are immunosuppressed and have been struggling with the dichotomy of strict masks and regulations at work and now, nothing outside of work.
24:45 – How do I get my autistic children not to be afraid anymore?
35:07 – In states that have very low vaccination rates, people with chronic illness are feeling very vulnerable and still having to wear masks.
46:25 – It seems like some people are so vigilant about wearing masks and enforcing them for other people that they are so angry in their interactions with others. People have not been content with individuals making decisions about their personal health.
52:52 – I don’t think the covid restrictions were that big of an inconvenience, since it saved lives. I enjoyed spending so much time with my wife over the last year or so.
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You can hardly tune into a Catholic podcast or read a Catholic publication these days without someone complaining about the lack of manliness. But is a lack of manliness the problem, or a lack of Christianity in men? We asked the world’s most manly man, Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, to help us get to the roots of the manliness panic.
Cy Kellett:
Recovering a Christian image of manhood. Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers 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 and today we talk a l…
