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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
Netflix goes heavy Catholic in its series Midnight Mass. But does it get the Catholic view of death right? Apologist Joe Heschmeyer joins us for a discussion of the various takes on death presented in Midnight Mass.
Cy Kellett:
Catholic take on Netflix’s Midnight Mass, Joe Heschmeyer is next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and one thing that we know in this movie era, in this era of the moving image, the Catholic church looks good on film. And they did it again in a n…
Questions Covered:
01:19 – Is St. Thomas More’s “Dialogue of Comfort” consistent with the Catholic Church’s teaching on suffering today?
05:12 – Is everyone in heaven a saint?
07:14 – Is it safe to call St. Peter the Bishop of Pentecost?
12:20 – When the priest mentions “Those who sleep in Christ” during Mass, is that a different state from heaven, hell, and purgatory?
17:10 – I often read that some saints went to confession weekly. I thought you only went to confession when you committed a mortal sin. Does that mean these saints were committing mortal sins all the time, or is it ok to go to confession just for venial sins?
19:59 – Can thoughts be mortally sinful?
22:54 – How should I confront or correct priests who change things in the liturgy or teach things that aren’t correct?
29:01 – What can I do if I want to visit a seminary but they don’t want to allow exemptions for the COVID vaccine?
36:39 – How could anybody get the idea that Mother Teresa was a bad person?
44:23 – My non-Catholic family member was recently hospitalized. If he doesn’t make it, is there hope for him to reach heaven?
52:03 – What’s more important: theology or God?
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Questions Covered:
02:35 – Is it possible to sin in a dream?
05:47 – We know Jesus didn’t sin, but the Gospels say he matured. What does that mean?
11:39 – I read from Richard Rohr that Hell isn’t a real place, and that it isn’t so much a place as a state of being. What exactly is the difference between those?
18:59 – Why does the woman in Revelation wail aloud in labor pains if she was Mary and therefore born without sin?
22:23 – I’ve been told by Eastern Orthodox that they don’t believe in purgatory because of the treasury of merit. What is your take on that?
34:41 – How will we recognize when Jesus comes back?
37:17 – Are traditional indigenous dances allowed during Mass?
45:04 – Why is the Holy Spirit the third person in particular?
48:19 – Is it wrong to protest Nebraska Medical Center for not allowing EWTN on their televisions?
51:03 – Was Judas a sinner?
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Questions Covered:
01:33 – Genetics seems to refute Catholic dogma because it shows that Adam never existed.
09:43 – If James says Abraham was justified when he offered Isaac as a sacrifice, but then Paul says he was justified when he believed God, isn’t that a contradiction? How could you still believe in the inerrancy of scripture?
14:37 – Most scholars seem to accept that Mark is the oldest of the Gospels, and also accept that the end isn’t original. They also say that the epistles of Paul are older, but Paul never met Jesus in the flesh. If that’s the case, is the historical reliability of the New Testament in doubt?
21:57 – How do I best spread the faith while maintaining my duties as a public school counselor?
33:28 – How do I begin in the field of apologetics?
41:07 – What do “works” mean in the Catholic Church, and are they what save you?
50:50 – How would you respond to this argument: if it’s morally permissible to remove a clone from your body, then it’s morally permissible to remove a fetus. Therefore abortion is morally permissible.
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Questions Covered:
05:36 – Sam Harris argues that free will is debunked by our inability to find an origin for our own thoughts. What is Trent’s response?
19:25 – If Jesus, who is God himself, admits that it would be better if Judas had never been born, isn’t he admitting that he made a mistake? How could he be all-good?
23:45 – What’s the best argument you’ve heard against theism?
31:51 – If God is all-powerful, how come so many awful things happen?
38:12 – My uncle is arguing that if humans were special and created by God, they’d all look the same at the beginning of the process and be created at the same time. But since that’s not the case, he says there’s no God.
48:30 – I believe that the universe has a creator, but I think he’s so distant from us that he doesn’t really care for us.
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