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
Questions Covered:
16:29 – Could you share more information about your work?
23:44 – How can I explain to people that men and women are different? Why is that a good thing?
29:26 – How do we charitably defend our womanhood in a society that says womanhood is malleable?
48:17 – I’m a 1950’s wife and it’s good to have some support and reassurance!
51:03 – Do you think women should be required to register for the draft?
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Questions Covered:
04:30 – Are there any questions that Catholics can ask Protestants instead of always being on the defense?
04:30 – Are there any questions that Catholics can ask Protestants instead of always being on the defense?
12:30 – How do I respond to my friend who asked me why Catholics believe vasectomies are wrong?
20:52 – Does God have love for people who ultimately choose hell?
29:43 – How do I respond to a Protestant friend when he brings up the 7 Churches in Revelation in response to the Catholic Church is the one true Church?
35:28 – How does the Catholic Church prove that Jesus founded the Catholic Church?
45:13 – How do I respond a Protestant arguing for Sola Scriptura. I was stumped with 2 Peter 3:15. Can you help clarify?
52:54 – Follow up to your response that God does not grieve like us. I don’t think I can use that defense because it contradicts scripture. Can you expound on your argument?
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Questions Covered:
34:05 – I met my wife when I was 50. None of us can have kids but both of us willed to be together. She now has dementia, but I visit her every day at the home she lives at now.
37:40 – I’m someone who’s trying to take the Faith seriously, but my partner is not. We are in the process of getting our civil marriage blessed by the Church. How can I present the faith to her in a sympathetic way?
45:00 – Can you speak on the Church’s official teaching on people who want to get married but can’t have kids because of age?
48:28 – How do we reconcile the Catholic view of marriage with other cultural views that exist?
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Questions Covered:
01:45 – How is it remotely right that annulment due to canonical form means that a person who was baptized Catholic but left the church in their teens and was married in a protestant church isn’t really considered married by the Catholic Church and they could get it annulled if they came back? How does this actually work and what am I misunderstanding because I don’t see how that’s remotely justified
10:42 – What would you say to a protestant who doesn’t see the need to go to church on Sunday?
15:03 – Is it wrong to address the Angel Gabriel as “archangel”? I have learned from Wikipedia that he is an archangel 2nd in command. Is it a Catholic teaching to acknowledge Gabriel as archangel, what is the difference between the two?
18:48 – Since the LXX was the basis for our current Bible, why weren’t all of the LXX’s books included in the Bible?
21:15 – Question 1: When are Catholics required to give their full assent to the teachings of the Church? I heard an apologist mentioned that we do not have to follow Pope Francis’s teaching on the death penalty since he was making a prudential judgment.
23:15 – Question 2: Since the Latin Church is in communion with Byzantine Rite Catholic Churches. Does that mean that Rome has implicitly canonized the Saints in the Eastern Church that were Orthodox since these saints were after the Great Schism like Gregory of Palamas?
24:28 – Jimmy, how do you respond to non-Catholics who ask about the number of Catholics who publicly criticize the Pope – they question our claim of unity.
31:58 – Please shed light on what this is about. Matt 27: 52-53. the tombs also were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his
35:00 – Can you explain purgatory in adult terms.
41:58 – What is transubstantiation? Is there a good example of change in substance in anything besides Eucharist that would help people understand Eucharistic transubstantiation?
47:43 – If (or when) we welcome the Eastern Orthodox Churches back into the fold – what could that mean for the Table of Contents for our Bibles? What books could plausibly make the cut, so to speak? 3 Maccabees but not 4 Maccabees?
51:55 – I know of holy water and blessed salt to protect my family from evil. What else should parents know to protect their families?
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