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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
What is happening in the Church today?
Questions Covered:
17:09 – Can you explain why the Pope has recently declared that Communion is the bread of sinners? He didn’t mention the need for confession when he said it.
21:38 – Why do you use the term pro-choice to describe Biden and other pro-abortion politicians?
30:12 – How concerned should we be about the Church’s future, especially considering all the problems we are seeing in Germany and other places?
…
Questions Covered:
03:00 – If you’ve lived a good life, but do something serious at the end of your life that could possibly be a rejection of God, will all be lost, and you’ll lose your salvation?
10:15 – What caused Protestants to form and split off from the Catholic Church? How close is the Protestant church to reunification with Rome?
16:45 – Are fetal cells lines still alive and united to a soul? Is there a soul present and animating those cells?
22:24 – If someone innocent was going to die and a priest steps in, offering his life instead, would that be suicide and a mortal sin? Would that priest go to hell?
33:20 – How can I be sure that I have really confessed and repented of all my sins?
40:50 – I am not Catholic. I consider myself to be a methodological naturalist. Why do Catholics claim that naturalism is false?
48:56 – Why should we choose the Catholic Church over any other church that does not hold to Sola Scriptura?
51:50 – Is it ever appropriate to stay the night, not in the same room, with a person that one is dating? I live in the same town as my girlfriend and regularly stay at her house, so I don’t have to make the 20-minute drive home.
…
Questions Covered:
03:22 – How do I respond to someone who says that in Vatican I, the Catholic Church officially named herself the Roman Catholic Church? I thought the term Roman Catholic wasn’t an official thing.
08:10 – Has the prophecy in Jeremiah 31:31-34 been fulfilled?
15:53 – Does a Catholic have to believe in human rights?
19:02 – The woman I have been dating has premonitions about future events that usually come to pass. Could this be a real thing? What would the Church say?
34:15 – Does the Church have an official teaching on organ donation?
47:21 – I am visiting my family for the first time in a while. We are all Protestant, but I am considering Catholicism. How can I broach this conversation with them?
52:22 – Did the Church ever have an official response to Dante’s Divine Comedy?
…
Questions Covered:
01:23 – Revelation 3:12 talks about ‘writing upon him a new name.’ What does that mean?
08:00 – What resources can I provide my sister with that would prove to her that the Catholic Church is the true Church? She just left the Mormon Church, believes in God, but is struggling with belief in the Bible.
16:00 – How can Catholics believe in a pope when the 7th Council of Carthage said that they didn’t think a bishop should have power over other bishops?
21:24 – I am a believer, but not a Catholic. When was the start of the relationship between Roman Catholics and Christianity?
37:20 – How do I respond to my orthodox friends who critique the Catholic Church because of the Crusades?
44:23 – I do manual labor and often listen to theological videos or podcasts while I am working. Can you recommend some less heady material that I could listen to that would draw me toward God but not be quite so intellectual?
50:28 – I have read some things in Exodus, Leviticus, and Joshua where God made someone’s heart hard or obstinate. Doesn’t this contradict the idea of free will?
…
Questions Covered:
13:40 – How do we debunk reincarnation, especially when people claim to have a testimony supporting it?
22:52 – How do ethos, pathos, and logos relate to the Trinity? How does kairos relate to the Virgin Mary?
31:43 – I have heard some orthodox claim that the infallibility of the pope and the papacy were invented in the 600s. Is that true? How can I respond?
35:45 – Where did the idea for evil even come from if God is all good and loving? How could he create evil?
44:49 – How do I get past the anger and disappointment I feel with the Church scandals and how they were dealt with?
…
