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:
07:17 – How can I best support non-Catholic girlfriend who is learning NFP for the first time?
10:50 – My friend thinks that under certain circumstances, he can offer the Eucharist for himself, as a layperson. How can I explain to him how wrong this is?
22:13 – What is the proper interpretation of Matthew 5:18? Some people use this verse to say that we should still be under the Mosaic law.
33:20 – I was speaking with a Protestant family member who thinks that the gospels only apply to Jewish people, and the Pauline letters only apply to Christians. How can I respond to her on this?
44:24 – What does it mean when the “two become one flesh”? If a person has had a sexual partner prior to marriage, how can they become one flesh when they do get married to someone else?
47:20 – What does the Church teach about the salvation of the patriarchs, like King David and others like him?
50:43 – What happens to all the souls who were not granted Masses or Catholic burials because they died of suicide? I know that now the Church will bury them.
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Questions Covered:
20:37 – Is it the Red Sea or the Sea of Reeds in the Old Testament of the bible?
28:43 – How early did Christians start praying to Mary?
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Questions Covered:
13:18 – Why is the sacrifice of the mass so important to Catholics?
20:09 – How would Steve respond to non-Catholics who say “keep doing this in remembrance of me not in sacrifice of me” from Corinthian’s 11:24?
30:55 – What is the difference between the consecration of the bread versus the wine. For instance, when the priest holds up the host and says, “this is my body which will be given up for you and for many,” why is that different from when the wine is held up and he says, “this is my blood given up for you?”
34:31 – Why do many parishes not offer the cup to drink during communion, and how is that scriptural according to John 6
41:13 – Does Steve have any suggestions on how to teach children on the sacrifice of the mass?
46:34 – How can we as Catholics, who accept Jesus in the holy sacrifice of the mass as our lord and savior, be able to evangelize our secular and Pagan world by being tabernacles of his presence?
49:27 – Steve, how have we separated from our Protestant brothers and sisters over the sacrifice of the mass and how can we help them understand the truth of the consecration?
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Karlo Broussard, author of Meeting the Protestant Challenge, takes on a common challenge to the Catholic priesthood. If Peter says all Christians are priests — and he does — then what need have we of a Catholic priest?
Why have priests if all Christians are priests? 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 Kellett, your host. A common challenge that’s made to Catholics from our Protestant brothers and sisters, we don’t need the priesthood. Pete…
Questions Covered:
03:03 – Is the death and resurrection in baptism meant to mirror the death and resurrection of Jesus?
11:16 – Who are the Rephaim mentioned in Genesis 14 and Joshua 12? Are they in some way related to the Nephilim?
18:36 – In Hebrews 4:14-16, I wonder, how can a sinless God man relate or understand at all the sinner?
22:45 – Is the talk of veiling in 1 Corinthians 11:10 referring to the book of Enoch and the fall story and angels lusting after long hair?
29:56 – John 20:23 Jesus tells the apostles that the sins they do not forgive will be retained. Which sins are these?
32:10 – What did St. Joseph do for his work when Jesus was a child? Does the bible really tell us that Joseph was a carpenter, or could he have been a stone worker?
39:25 – Is there a biblical prophet who probably lived between 560 BC and 460 BC, when Confucius lived?
44:55 – 91.9 FM St. Joseph Catholic radio…Why did Jesus call the Canaanite woman a dog?
48:45 – What is the Catholic view of Christ’s kenosis in Philippians 2:5-11?
51:46 – Is the Joseph that married Mary the same Joseph of the Old Testament who became powerful in Egypt? If so, how old must he have been?
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