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:
06:31 – Is there a specific thank you prayer to say to the Lord when he answers your prayers other than just saying “thank you”?
11:50 – What does Jesus mean in Matt 23:3 by “call no man father”? Don’t we call priests “father”?
10:05 – Is the ancient practice in Leviticus of the priests offering grain to God by raising and waving it high in the air the origin of why the priest lifts the Host during the Consecration?
20:28 – I know that the saint statues in my house are not God, but what led the ancient Israelites to believe that the statues they made (the golden calf for example) were actually God? Why did they worship/believe that their idols were God?
23:35 – I’m a revert to Catholicism and I don’t understand why the Church makes you get married in the Church. The Church will accept baptism from other churches, why don’t they accept marriages from other churches?
35:50 – I don’t understand why God allowed men in the OT to have multiple wives and now is against that. If God is an unchanging God, why did He “change His mind” on this?
47:53 – How does Mary reconcile with Romans 3:23 and doesn’t this contradict the Immaculate Conception?
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Questions Covered:
19:35 – How do we reconcile the perpetual virginity of Mary with Mt. 1:18 and 1:25?
35:15 – Why don’t Catholics believe in sola scriptura?
45:45 – How is it fair that Adam and Eve and Mary were exempt from original sin but no one else is?
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Questions Covered:
09:30 – Do Jews think the Son of Man in Daniel is also the Messiah?
18:41 – Are we supposed to treat the Eucharist as a spiritual booster shot or as something more?
34:17 – If God’s omnipotence means he can only do things that are logically possible, then which came first: logical truth, or God?
44:11 – How can I respond to the dispensationalist claim that Paul’s letters are only directed to the Gentiles, and everything else is for the Jews? (“Rightly dividing the Word”)
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Questions Covered:
05:35 – Why do different translations of certain Old Testament books seem to have larger wholesale differences between them than in the New Testament?
16:00 – What is the Church’s stance on secular democracies and the relationship between Church and state?
22:23 – Why will God come back?
33:13 – What magisterial documents can I read that talk about substance and accidents in the Eucharist?
42:27 – How can I talk to a loved one who has joined the Jehovah’s Witnesses?
48:50 – Can you clarify “Anihu” and “Yahweh”? Are they the same?
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08:55 – What did the Church Fathers say about perfectionism (the idea that we can be perfect in this life)?
15:20 – My friend is completely against the death penalty and all wars because he says they don’t give someone the chance to repent. But couldn’t God see into the future and see whether someone would repent or convert if given the chance?
30:10 – Is it acceptable to use a Greek Orthodox prayer book?
34:45 – Do we eat the accidents of Christ in the Eucharist? If not, what do we make of Eucharistic miracles?
52:30 – What’s the difference between the free will of 1) Lucifer, Adam and Eve, 2) the Virgin Mary, and 3) everyone else in heaven?
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