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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
It seems like Scripture is so solid, and Tradition is so ephemeral. Why should we trust that God has revealed himself to us in Sacred Tradition? And which traditions, exactly are revealed truths? Catholic Answers’ newest apologist, Joe Heschmeyer, explains.
Is Catholic tradition really trustworthy? 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. One of the things we Catholics have to defend is this idea that we’re taught almost from the beginn…
Questions Covered:
01:30 – As a new convert to the faith how can I be a strong Catholic witness in a predominantly protestant area?
06:55 – What are Trent’s thoughts on Liberalism and if it is reconcilable with Catholic social teaching?
16:50 – How the teaching on Indulgences changed, or did it?
21:28 – Are my sacraments valid if I was baptized in the western right but confirmed in the eastern right? How does the validity of rights translate? Do you need permissions? Which Church do I belong to according to Canon law?
28:58 – How can I defend Baptism to a friend who doesn’t believe in it?
35:29 – If Adam and eve were immortal and God told them they could eat anything in the garden why did they sin by eating the forbidden fruit?
44:20 – Why was the head covering on the Shroud of Turin never mentioned?
41:10 – Since the St. Michael the archangel prayer has been prayed for over 60 years how come its requests have not been completed- to cast all the evil spirits into hell?
46:50 – Since the early development of the sacrament of Reconciliation are all sins classified as grave since they may not have been considered grave in the beginning; and are they also forgiven under the once in a lifetime public penance?
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Questions Covered:
06:30 – What are Trent’s analysis Arguments for atheism today?
14:31 – How can God’s power be his intellect and does the trinity disprove divine simplicity?
21:22 – Why does the Catholic church make you wait until April/Easter to get baptized, and does that prevent salvation in the case of an accident or sudden death?
31:23 – Do humans have unique essential (not accidental) properties and if they do can that be the basis for free will? (& divine omnipotence)
45:30 – I am looking for clarification on Mark 13:30? Can Trent speak to how Muslim apologists claim Jesus’ prediction in this verse is embarrassing/invalid or shames Jesus’ divinity?
52:26 – Is marriage a moral or social agreement considering marriage did not come to be until hunter-gatherer societies became Agricultural societies?
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Questions Covered:
02:34 – How do you defend the Eastern Catholic Church against roman Catholics who say they are not part of the apostolic church?
15:08 – How do you defend your reposition if the person opposes you defines the same term differently?
23:26 – What other bible passages can I use to explain to my protestant friend that Mary is our mother?
28:40 – What are Trent’s top 3 book recommendations for someone who is just getting into apologetics?
33:23 – How do you defend the traditional Latin mass when it attacked often?
44:29 – How do you defend opposition to the saints?
52:08 – How do I approach my former catholic friend, who went to catholic school even throughout college who now claims she is Buddhist? How do I approach someone who has anger with Catholicism?
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Questions Covered:
06:55 – How do I explain to my brother why we can’t earn our salvation, but we can prevent it?
15:22 – How to defend human dignity when Christian prayer makes it seem like humans have no dignity in comparison to God?
24:33 – How do you better deal with scientism-the belief that science is the only form of truth?
34:45 – How to explain the Eucharist’s function historically versus how it functions in modern times?
42:15 – How to explain Marian apparitions to those who don’t believe in them?
48:10 – How do you discuss the arguments over faith alone or faith in works to protestants?
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