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:
06:00 – Does the physical material (for example, bone or hair or tooth or whatever) of a given saint’s relic bear upon its Wonder-Working Providence?
11:56 – How can one better understand the trinity without falling into one of the many heresies there are? Why does it seem like there is a hierarchy when Christ says that the Father is greater than Him when all are equally God?
17:23 – Is God “complicated”? It has been bandied about that God has “His” time to call us home. Regardless… I’m not sure that I think this.
22:15 – When a new saint is canonized who identifies the attributes that one sees in depictions of that saint? This assumes that there is an actual selection, as opposed to a tradition arising that “sticks” by attrition as the years go by. Similarly, who identifies the patronages, if that’s a real word. Example: When St. Jimmy is canonized one day, who will decide that you’re always to be depicted wearing a cowboy hat, and that you’re the patron saint of philosophers from Arkansas?
28:48 – Protestants call certain parts of Scripture apocryphal and we call them deuterocanonical. I want to understand why. It seems to me there is one canon of scripture and when I looked up deuterocanonical, it means second canon. Why do we have a second cannon of scripture when there should be just one cannon?
31:50 – People advise people in difficult marriages to draw on the graces of the sacrament. For those with annulled marriages, were there any?
33:00 – I am having a discussion with a protestant who claims that power to forgive or retain sins was given to more than the apostles that night of Jesus’ resurrection. He bases this on Luke 24:33 (that says others were present) and John 20:19-23 being the same appearance. How do we know that these two appearances were not the same? Or were they?
41:45 – In Robert Hugh Benson’s book “Lord of the World” the Pope establishes the “Order of Christ Crucified” in which the goal of the members are to seek out martyrdom. Is there a sense in which seeking martyrdom can be contrary to the Faith?
47:27 – Why are Catholics seen as “haters” when we stick to our guns on items of faith, sacraments, and morals? I hate no one but I know there is a standard we are all held to
50:24 – Can a practicing Catholic go to a Protestant Mass with a friend who is of this particular denomination as a friendly gesture? I know that the Catholic Church would not recognize the Eucharist within a Protestant service as being properly consecrated and thus null. Also, I do believe it is against church teaching to say some Protestant prayers that go against Catholic teaching. Can I have some clarification and guidance in regards to wanting to be friendly and charitable but within the parameters of Catholic responsibilities?
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Questions Covered:
02:00 – Why do we believe that Mary is in heaven with her glorified body and not Moses and the Old Testament prophets?
08:03 – Regarding the prayer for the faithful depart, why do we pray for the “faithful” departed and not the unfaithful?
13:28 – Our Lord died for our sins but why do we still have to pay for our sins in purgatory?
20:00 – Why do we not have the same belief of the Eucharist as with Protestants? And why do we have the body and blood and they don’t?
28:53 – How do we know that guardian angels don’t leave them when they become adults? Do adults have them too?
34:34 – How do you address a non-Catholic on Catholic issues who only believes what’s written in the bible?
43:00 – Follow up on communion question: Can you receive communion at different non-Catholic churches?
46:07 – Why do we believe that at the end of time the Jews will come to the Faith and Catholics will leave it?
50:19 – If the Catholic Church is the one true Church, why is there a distinction between Catholic and Christian?
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Questions Covered:
04:32 – Why ask for forgiveness during prayer if absolution is only offered during confession?
15:35 – Why do we believe in the perpetual virginity of Mary?
20:07 – If God is all loving and merciful, why do we have to fear the punishment of sin?
23:33 – If you sin with the thought that you will just go to confession after, will you still be forgiven?
28:57 – Why Catholicism and not Greek Orthodoxy?
36:59 – Why do Catholics believe in guardian angels and is it obligatory for Catholics to believe in them?
44:06 – Why aren’t a wider range of Papal utterances protected by papal infallibility?
50:32 – Why is it necessary to be married in the Church, even for fallen away Catholics?
Resources:
https://www.catholic.com/audio/caf/fed-up-catholics-shouldnt-turn-to-ort...
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Is it really true that if you’re not angry you’re not paying attention? Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church Was the Catholic Church, explains why anger at modern problems is not always a virtue.
Cy Kellett:
Ever hear phrases like, “If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention?” Joe Heschmeyer challenges those ideas next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Joe Heschmeyer with us this time. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. We talk with Joe about anger, specifically …
Questions Covered:
05:38 – In Deuteronomy 22:28-29 It talks about a man lying with a virgin. What does it mean from the Catholic perspective?
16:12 – I’m a 2nd grade catechist. They want to know why God judged Adam and Eve so harshly? Why couldn’t it be just a teaching moment?
22:22 – What if a person holds back a sin due to shame before their wedding? Will that person’s confession and marriage be valid?
24:30 – Why did God direct the Israelites to kill the other nations who were occupying the promised land if we’re all God’s children?
35:43 – I’m blind and I just wanted to tell Cy thank you and I love your audio book.
41:25 – My protestant friend called me and told me that he was convinced that hell doesn’t exist. Could you explain if it does exist and how you get there? How could it exist if Jesus died for everyone?
48:46 – If the sacraments are efficacious should we expect a temporal manifestation of that grace?
52:22 – I feel drawn to become Catholic. How can I approach this with parents who are deeply opposed?
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