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
06:38 – Should a priest use the Church’s form in the words of absolution? What should I do if he doesn’t?
09:00 – Is the Kingdom of God or the Church a society?
12:30 – Why does God give the devil so much power?
14:42 – What would you identify as the most urgent need among Catholic leadership today?
18:00 – What should I make of claims like in “Infiltration” that secret societies are trying to take down the Church from within?
21:34 – Is there any part of scripture to read when fear is prevalent?
24:16 – Why is there so much controversy over the Latin Mass? What should the laity’s position be?
30:40 – Could you expand on the idea of slavery in the Bible and how it’s different from how we understand slavery today?
34:06 – What is the definition of the chosen people as given in the prophets, and how does that carry over to Christianity today?
37:20 – Why would cremation devalue a body, as opposed to burial?
39:25 – How should we approach interpretation of dreams?
42:32 – If someone has a same-sex attraction, does he need to include that detail when confessing sexual sin?
44:40 – What’s the Catholic teaching on tithing?
46:35 – Why are priests who say confusing things like Fr. James Martin not being reprimanded while others are?
49:28 – Why does suffering play such a significant role in God’s plan?
50:40 – How should I pick a confessor?
52:57 – Is it moral for me to receive the COVID vaccine?
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Catholic Scholar Christopher Kaczor finds a great deal to admire in Jordan Peterson and his followers. But is Peterson’s work a fully-satisfying body of thought, or is it more of a doorway to deeper satisfactions for the mind? We discuss Kaczor’s new book — Jordan Peterson, God, and Christianity: The Search for a Meaningful Life.
Cy Kellett:
Is Jordan Peterson leading people to Christianity? Christopher Kaczor is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answer’s podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett…
02:38 – I work at a renaissance fair that has vendors selling pagan merchandise. Am I participating in sin?
06:41 – If you’re good your whole life, but commit a mortal sin right before death and don’t go to confession, do you go to hell or to purgatory?
14:07 – If we eat the Eucharist, which is Jesus, are we cannibals?
17:35 – How can I explain to my son why a boy in my neighborhood is being dressed like a girl by his parents?
28:53 – Does the Church consider cosmetic procedures/surgeries to be vain and a sign of attachment to the world?
40:58 – What is a Norbertine? How are they different from other monastic orders?
46:55 – Is there any basis in the Bible for annulling a first marriage?
52:44 – Is the priest only in persona Christi during the consecration or for the rest of communion?
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04:51 – Why don’t we observe the Sabbath on Saturday?
12:44 – Can a Catholic assent to the idea that we all have unconscious biases?
21:08 – Why is living a moral life necessary if we can just have a deathbed conversion/baptism/confession?
31:28 – If I bring a non-Catholic to Mass and tell them not to go to communion, but they go anyway, what should I do?
36:20 – I’m dealing with scrupulosity and have a very long exhaustive list of possible mortal sins. If I were to go through and discern if each one was a mortal sin, that would take a really long time. Should I make a shorter list and confess those in order to take communion?
44:55 – Is there a good resource for keeping high school- and college-age adults engaged in the faith?
49:20 – If the male priesthood represents the maleness of Christ, why can men still be laity?
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Questions Covered:
13:29 – Many speakers say that action or inaction of the parents are the cause of these feelings in their children. Do they ever tell the parents that they are the cause of this and the children are the victims?
13:20 – How do you help loved ones find their identity in Christ when they identify as “they” and have same-sex attraction without shoving it down their throat?
30:05 – Why didn’t you use the term “love” in your comments about parents speaking with their children?
31:57 – My son was dating a girl for many years who broke up with him and later said she is gay. Is there any way he could have known that sooner? And how do we interact with her parents?
37:35 – My 15 year old granddaughter wants to change her gender and says that she can’t keep being Catholic. What does the Church teach?
45:18 – What is a good approach to leading a parent who identifies as gay or bi back to Christ? My parents divorced and my mom “married” another woman.
50:01 – As an Eucharistic minister, am I encouraged or discouraged from giving Communion to someone I know is living an active gay lifestyle?
51:51 – My friend’s two children identify as gay and she assumed because I was Catholic that I would reject her and her children. How do I tell her I still want to be friends without accepting that they are right?
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