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
Listeners sent in their questions to Jimmy Akin to be answered during this pre-recorded Open Forum.
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Questions Covered:
07:18 – Can the souls in purgatory pray for the living souls on earth?
11:50 – How many days would a person stay in purgatory and is it as harsh as I’ve heard it is?
16:34 – How can we know when a soul has moved on from purgatory? If this is in eternity time is that quick, how does that relate to earthly time?
19:31 – How is free will maintained in the afterlife?
29:18 – I’ve heard at the final judgement, everything we’ve ever done will be revealed, does that count for things we’ve already confessed and been forgiven for?
36:45 – I was taught that if someone dies after they’ve gone to mass and confession directly after divine mercy Sunday, that they are absolved of all forms of their sin. Is that true? I was also told that this is the equivalent of how clean your soul is after baptism, is this true?
40:30 – In the New Testament letters they speak about heaven offering justice, peace and joy. I understand peace and joy in heaven but what about justice. How and why does justice exist in heaven?
47:16 – What’s the purpose of purgatory if you can have an indulgence prayed for you when you are near death and you can make it to heaven? 47:16 – What’s the purpose of purgatory if you can have an indulgence prayed for you when you are near death and you can make it to heaven?
51:30 – I have a three-year-old son, and we had a recent death in the family, how can I help him see and understand death without just saying the family member is just in heaven?
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Questions Covered:
05:00 – How do you know if Plenary indulgences work?
14:00 – Why do we have to earn our salvation if Christ has already died the ultimate death for our sins? More specifically, can you offer clarification on purgatory in scripture when it seems contradictory to what is proclaimed in the gospels?
22:30 – How has the church’s teaching changed from the Counsel of Lawrence regarding hell? Council of Lawrence?
34:29 – What is the basis for purgatory in the bible?
42:06 – Have any of the saints spent any time in purgatory?
45:39 – How can the Saints or Mary hear our prayers from heaven and answer them?
50:55 – Purgatory was abolished years ago, can you offer clarification about when St. Christopher had his help removed.?
01:12 – Station of the cross radio…Karlo just mentioned the good thief being able to go to heaven immediately, was that Jesus’ way of showing us how we could offer our worldly suffering in union with him so that can avoid purgatory or hell?
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What if my conscience says one thing and the Church says another? The Catholic Church clearly teaches that I must follow my conscience at all times while also teaching that the Church has authority over me. Joe Heschmeyer offers some help for those who are confused about conscience.
Does conscience trump doctrine? Joe Heschmeyer is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host and a listener, Jason K, sent us a suggestion for an episode and we thought it was a perfect epis…
Questions Covered:
03:25 – A Protestant told me that the Church made up the priesthood, especially using Hebrews 10:11 to say that priests can never take away sins. How can I answer this?
13:20 – What is Catholic teaching on the relationship between Church and state? Should Church and state be combined?
16:45 – What are the practical steps to becoming a saint?
30:00 – How does the Catholic Church understand the spirit and the bride in Revelation 22? How do they view God “the mother”?
41:20 – Catholics claim that Jesus rose bodily from the dead, which is a scientific impossibility. How do they defend that?
45:39 – What is the difference between doctrine, dogma, and teaching?
50:02 – What is the power of the [papal] keys? Does Peter exhibit this power in Acts when he has a vision of clean and unclean things?
52:12 – What does Revelation 3:16 mean?
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