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:
01:02 – Can someone tell me what verses talk about saints in heaven interceding for us?
09:55 – How can we be sure that the Catholic Church is the one true Church when the early church seems more conciliar like the Orthodox?
28:26 – My Eastern Orthodox friend argues that there’s 3 Petrine sees, and Rome does not have a right to override the others. How do I respond to that?
43:47 – I was raised Catholic and can’t get past the bible verse saying call no man father. What’s the answer?
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Questions Covered:
06:29 – Can I attend a wedding of protestant family members?
16:33 – Does a priest have to touch the host during the consecration for the mass to be valid?
30:14 – Why does Jesus say that divorce is allowed only during infidelity in Matthew 19?
44:15 – Mt. 27:9. Is it true that there are ancient rabbinical documents that quote one prophet but attribute it to another prophet?
50:56 – When I talk to my protestant friends about a sacrifice at the mass they say that they have a sacrifice of praise. How do I respond to that?
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Questions Covered:
06:42 – Is it possible to reconcile Young-Earth Creationism with findings of science that appear to say the earth is much older?
13:55 – During the apostolic age, was a mustard seed considered a weed or a harvestable crop?
19:11 – Did Jesus have an elemental soul like humans do?
22:43 – I’m having a lot of problems with two dioceses. They’re restricting my ministry and not telling me what’s wrong. What’s the next level I can go to to try and sort this out?
33:36 – How do the Catholic observances of holidays and seasons and feasts reconcile with Mathetes’ Epistle to Diogenetus, which seems to say that holidays and seasons are not Christian?
41:07 – With all the suffering in the world today, has anyone proposed that purgatory might be this world?
47:31 – Is it okay for Catholics to use supplements for your mood like adaptogens?
49:49 – What are some good sources I can read concerning typology of St. Peter in the Old Testament?
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Questions covered:
13:53 – How do we respond to scientific theories like the special theory of relativity that are based on thought experiments that seem to contradict Christianity?
18:16 – Alexis Carrel was a Catholic biologist who studied eugenics for the country of France. Can his profession be reconciled with his Catholicity?
29:54 – In our modern era, science is viewed as objective truth that matters more than faith; but also there’s a modern philosophy that everyone has their own truth. As a scientist, how do you use your profession to bolster your faith within that odd philosophical framework?
35:06 – What evidence is there that we have a soul that is rational and has intellect?
41:40 – How do you compare the difference between an atom being self-aware and a cell being self-aware?
45:15 – Can you recommend any reading or viewing material on how faith and science are complimentary?
47:28 – How should I teach chemistry from a Catholic worldview?
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Questions Covered:
01:27 – What is the history of the use of the tetragrammaton/divine name in worship, particularly as it relates to Jehovah’s Witnesses?
07:44 – I heard your show where you mentioned a study in India on near death experiences where the people in India would see some spirits that were either good or evil spirits. Christians see angels, good or bad. So non-believers could argue that the fact that people don’t see the same thing is proof that these visions are due only to chemical reactions of a dying brain. How would you respond?
13:52 – What would be the best way for us as Catholics to answer some Protestants who claim what’s happening in Israel right now has to do with the 2nd coming of Jesus that in there minds is gonna happen soon or at any moment?
17:49 – Which allegedly evidential NDE do you think is the strongest?
23:57 – If the Pope has the keys to heaven and hell, could the Pope/Church canonize someone that God would not have allowed into heaven by ordinary means, but since the church/pope utilized the authority of those keys they now get in? what about the reverse a just person going to hell because the church invoked the keys of authority to condemn them?
28:25 – From what I understand, the Jesuits are not allowed to hold positions of Authority or power. Is this true? And if so, did it change to permit Pope Francis to be Pope?
29:55 – Maybe better for a weird questions episode but I recently had several blessed, holy objects go missing around the house and it occurred to me, if it WAS demons, is there
34:53 – From my 15 year old : Is God alive both scientifically as well as theologically?
39:30 – From my 13 year old: In the Skinwalker Ranch episode of Mysterious World there were three wolf- like activities and one of them was a wolf-like creature running around in the horse pen. One thing that I realized was that the description for the wolf was almost the same as the beast of Gevaudan. Do you think the beast could have been a skin walker? They were both red, had poofy tails, head like a wolf, heyena like bodies and boar like legs. I’d like to hear your thoughts.
43:51 – I remember a very helpful episode where you discussed the career of Dr. Steven Greer. I have been very curious about what you know about the legitimacy of the UAP claims by Bob Lazar and David Grusch?
48:56 – How can we better understand the word “Belief” with regards to God and our faith, and do Catholics and Protestants (specifically Lutherans, understand this idea of belief in God differently). Is it just about saying you know of God’s existence and profess to others that you know and understand of his existence; or, is there a deeper understanding of “belief in God” which also calls us to act or respond to this understanding of “belief” in Him. If there is a deeper understanding (or action) of belief, where do we find this ( in history, in scripture, or in the actual definition in or meaning of the word)?
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