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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
What if my conscience says one thing and the Church says another? The Catholic Church clearly teaches that I must follow my conscience at all times while also teaching that the Church has authority over me. Joe Heschmeyer offers some help for those who are confused about conscience.
Does conscience trump doctrine? 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 and a listener, Jason K, sent us a suggestion for an episode and we thought it was a perfect epis…
Questions Covered:
03:25 – A Protestant told me that the Church made up the priesthood, especially using Hebrews 10:11 to say that priests can never take away sins. How can I answer this?
13:20 – What is Catholic teaching on the relationship between Church and state? Should Church and state be combined?
16:45 – What are the practical steps to becoming a saint?
30:00 – How does the Catholic Church understand the spirit and the bride in Revelation 22? How do they view God “the mother”?
41:20 – Catholics claim that Jesus rose bodily from the dead, which is a scientific impossibility. How do they defend that?
45:39 – What is the difference between doctrine, dogma, and teaching?
50:02 – What is the power of the [papal] keys? Does Peter exhibit this power in Acts when he has a vision of clean and unclean things?
52:12 – What does Revelation 3:16 mean?
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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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