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
In his new book, Love Never Fails, Madison Wisconsin Bishop Donald Hying helps Christians to take up the adventure of living in Christ, even in the modern world, every day. We asked him if we Catholics have taken on too much of the culture and lost our distinctiveness.
Cy Kellett:
The daily struggle against assimilation. Bishop Donald Hying 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 among the many problems that we face as Catholics in the modern world is the need t…
What does the Church teach about same-sex attraction? How can we best love one another as Christ commands?
Questions Covered:
14:11 – How do you explain to people how and why transgenderism is not a part of God’s plan for people and not what the Church teaches?
20:40 – What do you do about family members who are living a same-sex lifestyle when you want to show you care but can’t support some of their choices?
31:20 – I have a transgender nephew. We are all Catholic. I am struggling because he wants to be addressed as a female, but I don’t want to cause scandal for my kids and nieces. How do I meet him where he is but also do the right thing?
41:35 – Do you think that some people feel drawn to the gay lifestyle because the heterosexual lifestyle has become too painful and complicated?
48:35 – I have been struggling with people asking me at work to call them by different gender pronouns. I see a lot of fluidity in gender in nature in animals. How do you know that this gender fluidity is wrong and not what God wants?
50:28 – I was chatting with someone and didn’t know they were gay. I spoke about the pain and trauma that can sometimes cause people to explore different gender identities and this person was horrified that I thought trauma made them gay. I did not know how to best respond. How can I answer them?
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What is happening in the Church today?
Questions Covered:
17:09 – Can you explain why the Pope has recently declared that Communion is the bread of sinners? He didn’t mention the need for confession when he said it.
21:38 – Why do you use the term pro-choice to describe Biden and other pro-abortion politicians?
30:12 – How concerned should we be about the Church’s future, especially considering all the problems we are seeing in Germany and other places?
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Questions Covered:
03:00 – If you’ve lived a good life, but do something serious at the end of your life that could possibly be a rejection of God, will all be lost, and you’ll lose your salvation?
10:15 – What caused Protestants to form and split off from the Catholic Church? How close is the Protestant church to reunification with Rome?
16:45 – Are fetal cells lines still alive and united to a soul? Is there a soul present and animating those cells?
22:24 – If someone innocent was going to die and a priest steps in, offering his life instead, would that be suicide and a mortal sin? Would that priest go to hell?
33:20 – How can I be sure that I have really confessed and repented of all my sins?
40:50 – I am not Catholic. I consider myself to be a methodological naturalist. Why do Catholics claim that naturalism is false?
48:56 – Why should we choose the Catholic Church over any other church that does not hold to Sola Scriptura?
51:50 – Is it ever appropriate to stay the night, not in the same room, with a person that one is dating? I live in the same town as my girlfriend and regularly stay at her house, so I don’t have to make the 20-minute drive home.
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Questions Covered:
03:22 – How do I respond to someone who says that in Vatican I, the Catholic Church officially named herself the Roman Catholic Church? I thought the term Roman Catholic wasn’t an official thing.
08:10 – Has the prophecy in Jeremiah 31:31-34 been fulfilled?
15:53 – Does a Catholic have to believe in human rights?
19:02 – The woman I have been dating has premonitions about future events that usually come to pass. Could this be a real thing? What would the Church say?
34:15 – Does the Church have an official teaching on organ donation?
47:21 – I am visiting my family for the first time in a while. We are all Protestant, but I am considering Catholicism. How can I broach this conversation with them?
52:22 – Did the Church ever have an official response to Dante’s Divine Comedy?
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