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:
03:59 – What is purgatory?
13:35 – I want to know about the reach of papal infallibility and the limits to which it binds. Am I duty bound that it’s prudent to dogmatize its truths? Do we have to believe the 3rd and 4th Marian doctrines are all of the truth or can we be good Christians and believe in what Eastern Catholics say about it?
20:46 – What are the sacraments?
29:10 – Why does the Catholic Church find something substantial in Plato’s philosophy? Specifically St. Augustine has referred to it.
45:52 – Does one have to be in a state of grace for God to sincerely hear their requests or what they’re praying for?
49:24 – Have you heard anything about the “one world religion” that the pope is supporting? What are your thoughts on it?
52:16 – What is the definition of Hell?
Resources Mentioned:
Purgation Station
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Questions Covered:
03:17 – Why is the diocese of Rome not an archdiocese?
06:27 – Are there secular arguments for the existence of human dignity?
11:55 – Did Our Lady ever mention that we should pray for the souls in purgatory, or is it something that the church asks us to do? Is purgatory mentioned in the bible? If there’s no purgatory, where do we go?
16:00 – What is astral projection? What is the difference between bilocation and astral projection?
24:03 – Is it ok for extraordinary ministers to retrieve the eucharist from the tabernacle? Or should only priests do so?
29:29 – If St. Therese died on Sept. 30th, why is her feast day celebrated on October 1st?
32:06 – Is it morally permissible for someone to plan a trip that would take him away from the ability to attend mass? Particularly in the context of explorers and pioneers.
37:13 – Could you talk about general judgement, and why do people with near death experiences never talk about judgement?
44:10 – I’m a convert, former protestant. One of my old professors talked about the God of the Old Testament. He said the Jews were “henotheists” and not monotheists. What is the difference and does the Catholic Church have a stance on it?
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Questions Covered:
01:15 – What do Catholics believe about acupuncture?
05:55 – Why do Catholics say Catholicism stems directly from Jesus and Protestantism does not?
15:40 – Where did the idea come from that the fruit on the tree of knowledge of good and evil was an apple?
22:40 – Why did Isaac bless Jacob if he lied about it instead of his brother?
29:05 – How is it that we still have free will if God knows what we’re going to do already?
36:00 – Are there any boundaries on alcohol consumption for Catholics? Is there anything in scripture that talks about it?
43:40 – I heard lyrics of a song that said “the wrath of God will satisfy”, but don’t Catholics believe something deeper than that?
50:25 – Why do Catholics hold miraculous medals, the rosary, etc. as significant to our beliefs?
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Questions Covered:
06:20 – If from the moment God creates us, he knows we’re predestined to heaven or hell, how do we have free choice?
15:20 – Why do Catholics believe in Purgatory? Specifically, the Biblical evidence.
21:19 – Could things like having our temperature taken on our forehead, or carrying our phones around in our hands, be signs of the Mark of the Beast? And would God make it something like that, that we might do without knowing?
23:15 – Why does the Church keep and venerate relics and saints’ bodies?
34:00 – What does the Church teach about organ donation and cremation?
40:15 – Why do Catholics believe they’re not allowed to hold God accountable to his own moral system?
46:25 – Why do Catholics worship Mary and the saints?
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Being entirely objective, the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome is the best building in the world! We ask Duncan Stroik, the founder of the Sacred Architecture Journal, to explain why this is, and why churches, and other buildings today, don’t match it.
Why don’t we build churches like St. Peter’s anymore? Architect Duncan Stroik is next.
Cy Kellett:
Duncan Stroik is Professor of Architecture at Notre Dame University and the founding editor of Sacred Architecture Journal. And we had the great, good fortune of having a visit from him here at Catholic Answers. So we sat down to talk wit…
