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
Some Christians miss or explain away the amazing gift that Jesus gave his Church when he told the Apostles, “Whose sins you forgive are forgiven…” This unique moment is given to us in John 20:23. Karlo Broussard joins us to explain why the most obvious reading is the right one — Christ gave the Apostles the power to forgive sins.
Cy Kellett:
Did Jesus give the church a sacrament of confession or not? Karlo Broussard is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy K…
Questions Covered:
01:13 – Is it alright to not thoroughly understand every single teaching of the Church and simply believe it on authority?
9:50 – What’s the morality of smoking marijuana, specifically when you don’t intend to get high?
17:04 – The Catechism of the Council of Trent seemed to say that Judas is in hell, but in the new Catechism it doesn’t declare that. If the Church is the pillar and bulwark of truth, how does that work?
22:33 – Why doesn’t the Catholic Church recognize Mormons as Christians? How do we get off saying that when other denominations say that about us?
31:33 – When Our Lady of Fatima spoke to the children, she called herself the Lady of the Rosary instead of the Mother of God, and seemed to demand that people pray to her instead of to Jesus. That seems kind of suspicious to me.
42:14 – If God already knows over all time who’s going to be saved in his plan, what’s the purpose of us trying to get to heaven?
49:43 – When Moses struck the rock twice, God said he wouldn’t enter into the land he was giving his ancestors. But in the beginning of the Bible, it says the land was always guarded, so how did others get in?
52:15 – What is the biblical evidence for purgatory?
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Questions Covered:
06:55 – Do I NEED to ask the help of the Saints and Mary?
14:53 – If the Church has the power and authority to give out indulgences, why is she so stringent about giving them out?
23:52 – Why can’t our parishioners receive the blood from the chalice since COVID started? If it’s truly the blood, and truly incorruptible, shouldn’t they have it?
31:09 – Why did Judas go to hell but the thief on the cross went to purgatory?
37:37 – I’m not sure how to defend the infallibility of the pope to my Protestant and atheist friends. They say that gives him supernatural power.
46:30 – My younger sister wonders why women can’t be priests because there’s plenty of holy women.
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Questions Covered:
03:17 – Do vaccine mandates contradict the Catechism?
11:48 – I heard a rad-trad argue that the Novus Ordo is spiritually harmful, even though it’s licit, by comparing the two forms of the Mass to the sacrifices of Cain and Abel. How would you respond to that?
19:25 – Where can I find evidence of Jesus in the Old Testament outside of the Psalms?
24:41 – contacted Tim a few years ago and he helped me dig deeper into my faith and I’m so thankful for his help.
29:23 – What’s the Catholic stance on asexuality (not being attracted to either sex)?
36:16 – What does one have to do to devote themselves to the Immaculate Heart of Mary?
43:50 – When the priest is consecrating the sacred elements, because he’s in persona Christi, is it right for us to understand that in that moment he’s actually Christ? If that’s so, is it accurate to understand his body as accidental and his substance as Christ’s, just like the Eucharist?
48:51 – How do we know that forgiveness of sins in John 20 is talking about sacramental confession and not just forgiveness in general?
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Questions Covered:
17:13 – How did confusion about gender and gender ideology start?
21:03 – How am I to deal with the transition of my relatives when God’s truth tells me not to accept their new names/pronouns?
29:23 – Would you agree that one way to embrace people trapped in gender ideology is to acknowledge their feelings and that they feel extremely out of place? That could disarm the invective around this and reach them better.
32:44 – I’m a nursing student and I’m concerned about how I’m going to have to talk to patients who present themselves as transgender. How should I approach that without endangering my livelihood?
37:12 – My children go to school with a young boy who now thinks he’s a girl. The school and the mom are both supportive but it’s causing problems. Who do I start talking to about this?
43:02 – At what point should a public school teacher, who is being told to teach gender ideology, walk away from the job?
48:08 – I think one thing that would put a stop to this right away is if, when people who transition get older and regret it, they sue their doctors. Is that a path we should pursue and encourage?
Resources Mentioned:
A Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology, by Bishop Michael Burbidge
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