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:
12:00 – How can I explain to my brother that he needs to be married in the Catholic Church for it to be a valid marriage?
18:45 – Why would you have to have apostolic succession to validly consecrate the Eucharist?
31:10 – I heard that Catholicism is more “mystical” than other branches of Christianity because Catholics have things like intercession of the saints and the apocryphal books. Why does that matter?
46:06 – How should I talk to my Protestant parents about my interest in Catholicism?
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Questions Covered:
04:50 – Is it a more accurate translation to call Mary “full of grace” or “favored one”?
13:35 – How can we clarify the poor side effects that unintentionally came out of Vatican II to those who dislike the council?
19:32 – How can we defend the Real Presence of the Eucharist, especially when there’s so much proof from the early church that people reject?
24:00 – How can God have free will if he’s not capable of sinning?
33:57 – What would you say to someone who says the Church Fathers were too focused on philosophy instead of Scripture?
41:35 – How can I respond to the charge that the Catholic Church killed thousands of Protestant martyrs in England?
47:20 – What’s the best way to start talking to my Hindu friend about Catholicism?
52:16 – When we come to our resurrection, how will humanity all fit on earth? Will there be enough space?
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Questions Covered:
01:10 – Joshua 10:12-13 doesn’t make any sense, because we know that the sun doesn’t move.
16:22 – Why did Jesus change the names of the apostles?
22:33 – Why don’t Catholics learn the Bible like other denominations do?
29:00 – Why does Jesus call himself the good shepherd? Didn’t a lot of shepherds eventually slaughter their sheep?
38:15 – Since Jesus will come to judge the living and the dead, does that mean some people won’t die before going to heaven?
40:30 – Why wasn’t it a sin for Jesus to stay in the temple for three days?
43:20 – Are angels boys or girls? If neither, why is Michael called a boy?
45:54 – The Bible and Jesus seem to talk about so many different ways we can fall into sin. How does that square with the Catholic teaching that we can only go to heaven if we’re in a state of grace?
49:43 – Was Adam the first man or were there other humans before him?
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Questions Covered:
04:57 – How can only the Father know, in Mark 13:32, “the day or the hour”?
11:40 – When John the Baptist says to “repent and believe in the gospel,” what is he referring to? I thought the gospel was Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
17:30 – What point is Jesus making in Luke 11:24-26 when he says that after an unclean spirit leaves a person it comes back with seven more?
21:33 – How do you reply to the objection against Mary’s sinlessness that says other people in the Bible are addressed in the same way as the angel addressed her?
28:37 – Why did women stop wearing veils in Church when the Bible clearly says they should?
33:45 – How do I study Revelation from a Pentecostal background?
36:36 – Where is the idea of Holy Orders found in the Bible? And does the Bible ever address why we can’t receive the sacraments validly apart from Holy Orders?
44:22 – Why did God stop Abraham from sacrificing Isaac but didn’t stop Jephthah from sacrificing his daughter?
48:28 – Where is it said that suffering is an “amoral evil,” as I once heard a priest say?
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Questions Covered:
05:10 – It seems like there’s an apparent contradiction between the value of women in the book of Sirach and in the rest of the Bible. It talks about daughters being a liability, divorcing your wife, and the wickedness of man being better than the righteousness of women.
14:25 – Since there were bishops from the East who became popes before the East-West schism, isn’t that an argument in favor of the papacy?
18:10 – How should I talk to my friend about the hierarchical structures of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches? He seems to be leaning more Orthodox on this point.
29:00 – In my theology class we were talking about whether a traditional family (only father works + stay-at-home mom) or a non-traditional family lifestyle (mother works, or both parents work) is more beneficial. Is there a definite answer?
33:05 – What is the treasury of merit and how does it play into the theology of indulgences?
40:25 – How do you defend the Church against someone who believes it has pagan beginnings and that the Vatican is shaped like a dragon?
49:00 – I believe that since the second person of the trinity became a man, not a martian, that means there are no aliens. What is Jimmy’s best response to this?
41:40 – Is acupuncture approved by the Church?
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