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:
12:55 – My 3 adult children are nowhere close to marriage. What can I as a parent do to help them?
20:10 – If a potential spouse wants to use artificial contraception, how should one proceed?
38:44 – How does one navigate local traditions and the traditions of the Church leading up to marriage. In my culture the parents blessing is important, and my parents do not believe I’m ready yet?
49:20 – I think it’s more complicated for kids now especially due to dating post pandemic.
53:19 – I disagree with your comment on older individuals’ difficulty entering a vocation due to being set in their ways.
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Questions Covered:
13:31 – Regarding Rev 12. How do I respond to a JW that the woman in Rev 12 is not Mary but the Kingdom God? How do we properly interpret it?
19:56 – Can we view the papal authority the same as we would see a person who wrote a book of the bible? A sinner but with authority?
30:35 – If a protestant asks us how we know that we are interpreting the teaching of our infallible Church, how do we respond?
37:41 – How do we explain that Jesus gave authority to his apostles to forgive sins in John 20:22-23?
44:10 – Is the teaching on Mary’s perpetual virginity based on the bible or is it just a tradition?
50:35 – Is there any strategy we could use to implement the scripture when talking to atheists?
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Questions Covered:
05:30 – I’m protestant. What did the Church Fathers believe about Mary’s assumption?
11:31 – Why is the Church not receptive to canton marriages?
15:53 – How would you respond with my reason for not returning to the Church? I won’t return because of how the priest sex scandal was handled.
21:18 – Why do we have to go right up to the borderline of worshiping the saints?
33:08 – What’s the logic on assigning day to indulgences?
38:35 – Is there salvation outside the visible Church?
47:57 – Is the Protestant bible missing any book from the canon?
52:54 – I heard your story on the Journey Home. Could you repeat the story of your mother.
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Questions Covered:
06:41 – Why did only Mary need to be conceived without sin?
12:34 – Why are people hating on Mary and the Medjugorje apparitions, especially with so many conversions?
17:05 – Why does the woman in Revelation 12 have a dual interpretation as being Mary and Israel?
20:46 – What is your opinion of Our Lady of Lourdes and what is the Church’s official teaching?
24:09 – Did Mary live out her natural life before her Assumption?
32:42 – How is it that some protestants deny Mary’s assumption but accept a pre-tribulation rapture?
35:47 – How does one reject the Immaculate Conception if God dispense grace according to his will and purpose before time eternal as said in 2 Tim 1:9?
38:12 – My wife is considering Catholicism. She wants to know where in the bible it says to pray to Mary?
43:31 How do you respond to the claim that the bodily assumption and that Mary is mother of the Church were inventions by the Catholic Church?
47:12 – Regarding the Song Mary Did You Know. How much did Mary know and how did she know?
51:05 – My Protestant husband can’t understand how Mary can be the mother of God?
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Questions Covered:
01:16 – It sounds like they are worshiping Judith in Judith 15:9-10. How do I understand this verse?
05:04 – Regarding Daily Defense Day 70. I disagree that abortion is not a religious issue. Abortion violates the commandments.
11:28 – Is there a teaching on what our age would be in the next life?
16:18 – Are you familiar with the criticism that the bible doesn’t have a basis for the immortality of the soul? If the soul is not immortal would this erase the need for hell?
29:04 – How do we explain animal death before the fall?
35:20 – Does the Church have an official stance on Medjugorje?
42:07 – Since the Church expanded the understanding of salvation outside of the boundaries of the physical Church, would a person in those times who believed our current interpretation, be in good standing?
49:36 – When the pope does an action, is he saying ‘this is good, do this.’ For example, Pope John Paul II kissing the Quran.
52:53 – Why are masons not allowed to be Catholic but other organization members like Alcoholics Anonymous can?
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