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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
Questions Covered:
01:00 – Do we need an absolute standard as grounding for ethical norms? If so, how can we assert that absolute standard as the Christian God?
17:30 – A Protestant friend thinks that God predestines the Elect to Heaven in such a way that we have no say in the matter, that we cannot in any way merit our salvation. Of course it’s all God’s grace and we cannot merit final perseverance from what I’ve heard, but we do merit and truly participate in our salvation. Is there an easy way to argue against this, and any Bible quotes that make it clear?
29:00 – The entire Old Testament seems to depict the people of God continually failing and until the coming of Christ, which is the end of all these failures. There is a continual cultural failure as they succumb to pagan cultures around. Looking at this today, how much are we to engage with this earthly culture? Is there a better option than a strictly “Benedict option” response? How do we naturally stand apart from the culture, genuinely offering a plausible alternate narrative?
45:00 – There are many today who are not convinced that the Catholic faith is relevant. How can we prove the utmost importance of the faith when the Church itself doesn’t exhibit that faith? For example, in the wake of covid, many parishes and clergy have acted like the things of this world are more important.
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Questions Covered:
07:27 – I have a question about Judas and predestination. I feel like I know the short answer is no predestination, but I can’t seem to reason my way to what sounds like the correct answer. If Jesus’ omnipotent knowledge of Judas’ betrayal does not equal causation, did not Jesus seek out Judas and consequently put him in a position to betray him? If He had not sought him out to join the apostles, Judas would not have been able to betray him. It almost seems like entrapment.
17:00 – Many people claim that women in the bible seem to be treated as second-class citizens, for example, in Leviticus 12, the mother who gives birth must be purified for twice the amount of time for having a female child, rather than a male. Even in the New Testament, 1 Timothy 2, St. Paul seems to suggest that the fall was Eve’s fall rather than Adam’s. He says that wives must be submissive to their husbands for this reason. How do we explain?
43:25 – How are we as Catholics supposed to react and respond to scientific claims being made by politicians and scientists who make claims that are contrary to Catholic belief? Should we reject them, consider them, etc.? How do we approach science, which is so anti-God at this point?
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Tim Staples returns to Focus with a question taken from his School of Apologetics course “Evidence for the Church“: Did Jesus really give his authority to a human institution?
Cy Kellett:
Did Jesus found a church to have his authority and power? Tim Staples is next.
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I am Cy Kellett, your host. I emphasize Catholic really hard right there because we’re going to defend the Catholic faith today.
Every Christian would say Jesus came with authority, teaching with…
Round One
Contestant One
1) In Luke’s Gospel, upon returning to Nazareth, Jesus reads in the synagogue from which prophet? (Luke 4:16)
b) Micah
b) Jeremiah
c) Isaiah
2) How many miracles of healing did Jesus perform? Matthew 4 23-24
a) Seven
b) 40
c) We don’t know, but a whole lot
3) In the Gospels, we never see Jesus actually perform:
a) An exorcism
b) A baptism
c) Any miracles other than feeding and healing
Contestant Two
1) According to the Book of Hebrews, Jesus was a priest of the order of:
a) King David
b) Melchizedek
c) Moses and Aaron
2) Jesus was worshipped by the Apostles:
a) Only After His death
b) During his earthly ministry (Matthew 14:33)
c) Not until after Pentecost
3) During his earthly ministry how many people do we know that Jesus raised from the dead? (Not including himself).
a) Seven
b) Only one
c) Three Jesus raised the widow’s son at Nain (Luke 7:11-17), Jairus’ daughter (Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:21-43; Luke 8:40-56), and Lazarus (John 11:1-44).
ROUND TWO
Contestant One
1) Where does ordinary time” get its name?
a) From being less important than the great feasts and seasons of the Church
b) From the method of numbering its week’s using ordinal numbers.
c) From the tradition that ordinations can take place during these periods but not during the other seasons
2) An annulment is:
a) A declaration by the Church that no sacramental marriage took place.
b) A declaration by the Church that no civil or sacramental marriage took place.
c) A declaration by a married couple that their marriage was defective.
3) Whenever it becomes practically impossible for a married couple to live together, the Church teaches:
a) the couple can physically separate and choose to no longer be husband and wife.
b) the couple can physically separate, although they remain husband and wife.
c) they must stick it out regardless of the hardship
Contestant Two
1) Who are the Sons of Thunder? (Mark 3:17)
a) Peter and Paul
b) James and John
c) Herod and Pilate
2) Which best describes the Church Jesus founded:
a) It is an invisible union of all those who follow Jesus.
b) It is a communion of believers with a visible structure.
c) It has no invisible features but is a set of visible structures.
3) Which image does Jesus use for the Church in Matthew 16:18-19:
a) a sheepfold
b) a kingdom
c) a body
FINAL JUDGMENT
1. F Jesus is two people, one divine and one human.
2. T The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are all equally God.
3. T In God there is no potential, only pure act.
4. F At the time of Jesus all Jews accepted the Torah, the Prophets, and the Psalms as Scripture.
5. F All of the Pharisees rejected Jesus.
6. T Christians accept Moses as a true prophet of God.
7. F The basics of the moral law are only known to humans because of God’s revelation in the Bible.
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Questions Covered:
22:20 – Why were Eucharistic ministers brought into the Mass when they don’t have consecrated hands? Why was receiving in the hand instituted?
36:10 – Every time the Blessed Sacrament is exposed, it’s only the Body of Christ and not the Blood. Why is that?
37:38 – I am a cantor at Church. I receive Communion and then have to start leading music right away. How can I make that time sacred since I can’t just kneel and pray?
44:22 – At my Church, they play music the entire time during the reception of the Eucharist. Should there be time for silence?
47:05 – What is the ‘Sanctus’ for and what does it signify?
49:31 – The way that the centurion approached Jesus was beautiful and humble. How can soldiers, law enforcement, etc. channel that humility in our approach to Jesus today?
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