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:
13:41 – What does it mean to have faith?
18:52 – How does God hear us?
22:47 – Can the Pope celebrate any eastern or western rite of the liturgy?
29:32 – What do Catholics mean when they say that priests are ‘another Christ’?
35:33 – How does one become a priest?
39:55 – Do lay people have the right to know what happened to a priest who was ordained in our area, but seems to have disappeared? Is it appropriate to ask about him?
51:02 – In Genesis 3, it says that the Lord banished Adam from the garden of Eden, but weren’t Adam and Eve banished?
53:07 – How can saints hear us and how can they hear multiple people praying to them?
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It’s a delicate time to talk about anger. There is a lot to be angry about. There’s a lot in the secular world to be angry about. There’s a lot in the church to be angry about, but we want to be giving an account of our faith that draws other people—most especially our children—towards the faith. Matthew Walther and Cy Kellett discuss how anger can ruin apologetics.
“Which brings me to my final point, the harshest of all the censures that I intend to present here. It is one that I hope will, literally speaking, hit very close to home. I am talking about what you are do…
Questions Covered:
05:03 – I find it difficult to come back to the Catholic Church because the community is difficult to connect to. I’m not sure I want to come back and not have a community again.
16:38 – I don’t see anything in the new testament about Jesus establishing the priesthood. Where is the evidence for it?
29:55 – I was born out of wedlock. Am I unacceptable in the eyes of God? Would this keep me from becoming a Catholic?
31:40 – Why shouldn’t I leave the Catholic Church for the Orthodox church?
41:35 – The Catholic Church teaches that the Eucharist is the flesh and blood of Christ, but John 6:35 says that the flesh counts for nothing. How do you explain that?
47:30 – If you have someone in your family who has dementia and can’t remember the Bible, how can you make sure that they’ll go to heaven?
50:55 – What does the Catholic Church believe about annulments? How are they different from divorces?
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Questions Covered:
09:17 – Did God create light millions of years ago? With the speed of light from stars, how do we understand the age of the earth?
16:07 – Is it okay that I believe in flat earth and the firmament if I am currently studying to be a Catholic?
30:32 – I’ve been told that non-Catholics are not allowed to receive the Eucharist. I am also told that Catholics cannot go receive communion in other churches. Is this true?
38:25 – A Protestant told me that the early Church was not Catholic, and that St. Athanasius was a born-again Christian, not baptized. Is that true?
44:50 – Do Catholics believe that Jesus died for our sins and we are saved by grace or do you believe his sacrifice was not enough, so people have to go to purgatory?
Resources Mentioned:
JAMW Ep. 68
A Daily Defense
The Father’s Know Best
The Apostasy That Wasn’t
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Questions Covered:
06:43 – When was Revelation written?
11:30 – I am not Catholic, but I have been watching Mother Angelica. I love how Catholics view suffering and a lot of other aspects of the faith. I was thinking about becoming Catholic but have paused because I see that there are some people in the Catholic Church who support abortion and same-sex marriage and a bunch of things I don’t agree with. What should I do?
18:28 – Do Catholics believe that they inherit a spiritual body when they die?
30:05 – What amount of time in Mass must be attended for the Mass to “count” toward the Sunday obligation?
33:59 – Are the Garabandal apparitions approved by the Catholic Church? What is the process to determine an apparition as valid?
43:23 – My dad is not Catholic, and he told me that I am not actually baptized because it was not in the name of Jesus. Is a proper baptism in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit?
50:40 – I bought a candle that had been blessed by a priest. Is that the sin of simony, since I bought it knowing that it was blessed?
52:05 – Why in the Old Testament were foods so strictly regulated, but Catholics do not restrict the types of food eaten?
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