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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
Will they or won’t they overturn Roe v. Wade? All the focus on the Supreme Court life cases means lots of media spewing confusion about abortion. Who can answer all of this confusion? Well, you can, by keeping things honest and simple as Apologist Joe Heschmeyer explains in this episode.
Cy Kellett:
An extremely simple pro-life argument. 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.
Cy Kellett:
We’ve been doing a lot of programming on pro-l…
Questions Covered:
02:28 – Why didn’t the pope and the Catholics take more of a hard stance against Germany in WWII?
08:00 – Where is the Trinity in the Bible?
14:20 – One of my friends has a hard time with confession. He wants to know if he’s still forgiven if he doesn’t feel sorry for his sins, but he wants to feel sorry.
21:20 – How do we distinguish between sinners and righteous people, like the Bible talks about in the story of Sodom? Isn’t there a lot of gray area?
29:40 – Why isn’t there an official Church teaching on the existence of aliens, or at least a clarification on whether they might be angels or demons?
41:58 – Why would God create the dinosaurs if he knew they would be killed?
48:20 – Whenever I talk to my friend about Catholic teaching, he says “I’ll pray about it and God will tell me if it’s right.” Is there anything fallacious about this thinking?
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Questions Covered
06:58 – Is the legal doctrine of adverse possession immoral?
14:03 – Do we have proof that Jesus walked on earth?
18:42 – Is Elijah the same person as John the Baptist? If so, how is that different from reincarnation?
21:02 – We were talking about baptism in RCIA, and one of the candidates says he thinks that original sin is a stain on the soul, but concupiscence is more psychological. Is he on the right track?
29:41 – What’s the difference between the extraordinary and ordinary magisterium?
32:30 – Can you respect the position of the papacy and still disagree in some aspects with the pope?
37:10 – Why didn’t the Apostles eat Jesus’s body after he died, since he called himself the bread of life?
45:05 – What does Jesus mean in the anointing at Bethany when he says “For the poor you have with you always; but you do not always have Me” (Mt. 26:11)?
51:08 – What’s moral and not moral when it comes to investing?
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Questions Covered:
12:00 – I don’t feel a very good connection to our Lord. How can I make that connection deeper?
17:03 – Does the devil or anything evil make miracles like Jesus?
22:12 – I teach CCD and my student asked, “If God is all knowing and knew that Judas was going to betray him, why did he choose him as a disciple?”
29:03 – What are your book recommendations on building our relationship with God?
13:47 – I had a priest tell me that the particles of the Eucharist don’t contain the real presence of Jesus. Is this true? He was referring to the video of the priest that had a mystical experience at mass and said their church wouldn’t be receiving on the hand anymore. He took it in a negative direction.
40:17 – How do you help get youth to have a relationship with Jesus? I work specifically with teenagers.
43:08 – How can we be as perfect as Jesus?
45:02 – I’ve been on a journey of “sainthood” and in the midst of 2 years, I feel like I haven’t gone anywhere. I think what I’m missing is that relationship with Jesus. I don’t know how to have one. Can you help me?
48:54 – How important is it to spend some time with Jesus every day to develop a friendship?
51:20 – A good friend said, “Don’t say God, say Jesus”. Is there something I can do to promote that closer friendship to the triune God? Are we supposed to refer to one person more than the others?
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Questions Covered:
05:10 – How do we talk to people about defending the lives of those on death row?
12:20 – If God is sovereign, why would the fetus be born in the first place if he knows they’re going to hell?
19:18 – How would you respond to someone that says, “A fetus is an innocent aggressor, therefore killing it is justified”?
31:15 – One of the arguments from pro-choice people is the verse in the bible that states that the soul enters the child’s body at some point in the middle of pregnancy. They argue that abortion is ok up until that point. How would you respond to that?
36:04 – How do you respond to someone that says that since the heartbeat starts at 6 weeks, it should be ok to stop it before that point?
43:46 – Do we know if aborted babies go to heaven?
47:55 – With so many self-esteem issues, how do you explain the value of life to someone that doesn’t think they should live? Since they don’t think their life has value, they also don’t see the value of a fetus in the womb.
52:00 – I have a friend who was previously pro-life and then had the potential of becoming pregnant and switched to being pro-choice. I ended up pushing her away with my reaction to her viewpoint. What are some of your thoughts on how to keep your emotions out of conversations on this topic?
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