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:
05:00 – If evolution is true, were the first humans imbued souls immune from physical death?
07:00 – What do Catholics believe about the clarity of Scripture, particularly the Old Testament?
14:40 – Does the Church teach that abortion should be illegal?
19:53 – Can Jesus, as God, in his resurrected body, change?
33:05 – I have a boyfriend who is a Protestant who is interested in the Catholic Church. I feel a lack of confidence in sharing the faith with him, especially about free will and predestination. Can you help me to improve on this?
36:10 – Can the evidence of Christ’s empty tomb and His appearances after the Resurrection be proved wrong by simply saying that the apostles made those things up?
46:30 – Do Catholics and Lutherans agree on justification?
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Questions Covered:
17:03 – Before I reverted to Catholicism, I used to go to gay clubs because my best friend is lesbian but, I am afraid to set a boundary with her now because I don’t want to hurt her feelings. How do I set the boundary without hurting her?
2. Alexandria…. Mansfield, TX…910 AM…17:03 – Before I reverted to Catholicism, I used to go to gay clubs because my best friend is lesbian but, I am afraid to set a boundary with her now because I don’t want to hurt her feelings. How do I set the boundary without hurting her?
22:58 – I am struggling to set boundaries with my in-laws. My wife and I separated for a few months and now her family shuns us because of it even though we are back together living out the catholic faith. Do we cut them out? Do we ignore the issue?
32:28 – My college kids are home this summer and I had the expectation that we would all attend church together, but my kids said because they are adults they do not have to come, and my husband stands by them in this. How do I enforce the boundary while remaining a good mom and wife?
46:35 – In the context of marriage how do you set boundaries with the friends of the opposite sex. In other words, how do you respect your spouse and have friends of the opposite gender? Where do you draw the line?
48:28 – How do you set boundaries with family members who have stolen and have been dishonest. In other words, how do I use boundaries to protect my relationship with my family who have overstepped them in the past.
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Questions Covered:
06:07 – I am not religious because I felt pressured to be so. Also, the thought of eternal life scares me.
14:58 – My sons think that the Catholic Church is a joke because they don’t see Catholic leaders living the faith. How can I respond to them and explain that the faith is still worth having, even with people not living up to their roles in it?
20:07 – I am not religious because I have a lot of things to do, and I focus on the earth and the things that I can see. I don’t see a need for religion in my life.
30:20 – I have a problem with the word religion because it’s not in the Bible. I believe in relationships.
42:05 – I am not religious because I have outgrown religion as a cultural idea. It was a first attempt as a cultural identity, but our society has now outgrown it.
51:22 – I am not religious because of prayer and how I don’t see the logic behind communicating with God and not just talking to ourselves in our heads. I am mainly looking for catholic answers to strengthen an atheist argument.
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In his new book, Love Never Fails, Madison Wisconsin Bishop Donald Hying helps Christians to take up the adventure of living in Christ, even in the modern world, every day. We asked him if we Catholics have taken on too much of the culture and lost our distinctiveness.
Cy Kellett:
The daily struggle against assimilation. Bishop Donald Hying 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 among the many problems that we face as Catholics in the modern world is the need t…
What does the Church teach about same-sex attraction? How can we best love one another as Christ commands?
Questions Covered:
14:11 – How do you explain to people how and why transgenderism is not a part of God’s plan for people and not what the Church teaches?
20:40 – What do you do about family members who are living a same-sex lifestyle when you want to show you care but can’t support some of their choices?
31:20 – I have a transgender nephew. We are all Catholic. I am struggling because he wants to be addressed as a female, but I don’t want to cause scandal for my kids and nieces. How do I meet him where he is but also do the right thing?
41:35 – Do you think that some people feel drawn to the gay lifestyle because the heterosexual lifestyle has become too painful and complicated?
48:35 – I have been struggling with people asking me at work to call them by different gender pronouns. I see a lot of fluidity in gender in nature in animals. How do you know that this gender fluidity is wrong and not what God wants?
50:28 – I was chatting with someone and didn’t know they were gay. I spoke about the pain and trauma that can sometimes cause people to explore different gender identities and this person was horrified that I thought trauma made them gay. I did not know how to best respond. How can I answer them?
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