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!
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Most Recent Episodes
Karlo Broussard, author of Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church, answers the common Freudian objection to belief in God—It’s just wish fulfillment.
Cy Kellett:
Is religion just a coping mechanism. Karlo Broussard is next. Hello and welcome to focus. The Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. We’ll do a little defending today against the accusation that religion is all about a psychological need we have, to be comforted, most especially to be comforted in the face of the fact that we know that we…
Questions Covered:
02:23 – Since Adam and Eve were supposedly the first two people on the earth, how could they be the parents of everyone? Wouldn’t there have to be another family at least?
06:33 – I am Protestant and am wondering, since idolatry is a mortal sin, does that mean that those who committed idolatry in Maccabees did not go to purgatory?
16:23 – Should the Church have Eucharistic ministers or should the priest be the only one to distribute Holy Communion?
20:50 – Does social media bring us closer to God or further away? In your opinion, has social media been a positive influence in evangelization?
28:54 – How do you respond to Protestants about Judith and the deuterocanonical books being historically inaccurate?
36:08 – I am going through RCIA. In speaking with my Protestant dad about confession, he says you shouldn’t confess to a man, but to Jesus Christ. He doesn’t think the authority of the apostles extends down to priests today. How can I defend the sacrament of confession and apostolic succession to my dad?
44:49 – What is the difference between Final Judgement and particular judgement?
50:10 – Recently you wrote about Pachamama and Pope Francis, saying that what happened at the Vatican was not idolatry. How can you defend that?
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Questions Covered:
04:01 – How strong is the argument of the incoherence of nihilism in proving the existence of God?
12:14 – It seems clear that the Holy Spirit is not only in the Catholic Church, but moves and works in other Christian denominations, as well. How can we say there is a need for a united Church, therefore?
17:45 – My wife and I are expecting. Does the baby receive the grace of the Eucharist through her reception of it?
21:40 – Do people in the afterlife have free will?
29:05 – Did St. Paul have any letters that he wrote which did not make it into the Bible?
32:00 – How can we address the atheistic objection that there were multiple forms of Christianity from the beginning, so it can’t be true?
43:04 – How do you get from “an unborn fetus has a right to life” to making abortion illegal? I have not heard a good defense of making it illegal.
50:50 – My friend asked how it is just that God makes the laws of morality and then judges people based on those laws. Are the laws of morality set in stone? Is there a possibility that there are other moral laws that are correct?
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/st-pauls-big-magic-trick
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Can a Catholic Be a Feminist?
Questions Covered:
19:24 – For women who financially need to be in the workforce, how are they expected to balance that with motherhood? Should we still expect equality in the workplace? Is feminism in the workplace a good thing?
35:14 – Do you not think that some Catholics go a bit too far to submitting to the modern fundamentals of feminism, failing to defend the traditional view of women? Why do you think people are afraid of the traditional view of women?
42:37 – Do you think women should be required to register for the draft?
48:22 – How exactly is feminism defined? There is so much confusion about what that means.
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Questions Covered:
00:55 – Tim comments on the recent changes to canon law.
06:53 – How can I respond to someone who says that there is no merit or holiness gained from abstaining from sin? Do I have an obligation to respond?
18:43 – If God told Ishmael that he would make of him a great nation and that nation is now Islam since Mohammed is descended of Ishamel, then how can we say that Mohammed was a false prophet?
22:28 – If the orthodox reunited with the Catholic Church, would the Vatican acknowledge all their books of the Bible as a part of the canon and valid?
24:52 – Does Galatians 3:13 teach penal substitutionary atonement?
34:35 – Why should we appeal to natural law in moral debates?
42:32 – Since the Church doesn’t recognize gay marriage, if a person receives a civil marriage to a person of the same sex and then realizes they’re not gay, do they need an annulment before they can marry someone of the opposite sex in the Church?
47:00 – I am a revert to the faith, very eager to evangelize to my Protestant in-laws. My fiance says I am too eager. How can I strike the right balance with this?
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