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:
04:15 – I was raised Catholic but I was married in an Episcopalian church. I am wondering about the validity of my marriage.
06:16 – In the catechism there are smaller “non heaven or hell issues” that I disagree with. How much of the catechism (or doctrines of the Faith) do I have to agree with in order to be a Catholic?
17:00 – I was Reading about current Eucharistic issues and I read that abortion is an immediate cause for excommunication. Why are other forms/sins of murder not excommunicable?
21:18 – I’d like to know how the apostles knew about events of Christ’s life where it seemed like only Jesus would have been present (as in when Jesus was before Pontius Pilate or when he was fasting in the wilderness). How can we trust the validity of the gospels?
29:59 – The Bishops said that the president should not receive communion and I think that is crazy. The president is catholic shouldn’t he be able to receive communion.
51:12 – I have a question about the passage John 8:1-11 I listened to a secular podcast where they said that this passage was added later to the bible.
Resources Mentioned:
https://timstaples.com/2019/was-the-woman-caught-in-adultery-original-to...
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Questions Covered:
02:36 – I’m a 7th Day Adventist, I read KJV, but Catholics go to Church on Sundays, not Saturdays. I believe the Sabbath is Saturday.
12:00 – I’m not Catholic because I’m Oriental Orthodox, I reject the Papacy and the Council of Chalcedon.
29:00 – I am a Protestant considering the faith, but the language of the Catholic Church makes me feel like an outsider.
39:37 – I’m not Catholic because I’m Hebrew, and I don’t want to reject or change what I am.
47:07 – I’m a Southern Baptist looking at Annulment, and I’ve been married several times. What would I need to do in my current situation?
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Questions Covered:
10:50 – I find the Church to be unfriendly.
19:58 – “The Bible is a Catholic Book” gives me the impression that the Church put the Bible together, but many books of the Bible predate the Church. Why is the Bible a Catholic book, then?
29:12 – I am already a Christian, so what’s the point of being Catholic?
34:15 – I am not Catholic because I don’t want to go through the Annulment process.
47:03 – I’m Episcopalian/Anglo-Catholic, and I believe everything that Catholics do.
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It turns out that Catholic Answers Apologist Joe Heschmeyer is also a lawyer, so we asked him about the recent Supreme Court decision that allowed a Catholic social service agency to continue refusing to place foster children in the custody of gay couples. Is this discrimination? And what does this ruling suggest about the future of religious freedom?
Cy Kellett:
Is the Supreme Court letting Catholics get away with discrimination? Joe Heschmeyer, next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast, for living understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, yo…
Questions Covered:
00:45 – Has anyone tried to make a gospel that is a combination of the four gospels?
08:19 – At Pentecost the Holy Spirit came down and the apostles were able to speak many languages. When they went and preached to all the nations of the world were they still able to speak many languages?
15:43 – Why has the two source hypothesis theory for the synoptic gospels gained more popularity than the one source theory?
24:40 – I asked a Priest to bless my new Jerusalem bible. The Priest said it was not a real bible and that they normally don’t bless them. However he said some “sanctifying” words over it. Could I get some clarification on why it isn’t a real bible?
32:23 – Where do the nativity narratives come from in Luke and Matthew? It seems strange that Jesus would tell people and talk about His birth. How did the gospel writers hear the account of His birth?
39:00 – Why do newer translations of the bible have different words in place of words in older translations of the bible? I feel like important details are left out when certain words are changed.
44:22 – Joseph had a dream where there were eleven stars bowing down to him which represent his brothers and mother and father. But the bible also says that Rachel died at birth with Benjamin. How can this prophecy be true if his mother (Rachel) died?
51:06 – Is Matthias an apostle or not?
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