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
Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
01:39 – Why did the Catholic Church in the counsel of Laodicea in AD 36 transfer the solemnity of the sabbath from Saturday to Sunday?
14:33 – In the Eucharist are the accidents of bread and wine attached to Christ’s substance or absent of it?
16:42 – What do I say to someone who thinks God is responsible for all the suffering they have in their life?
20:00 – the rapture- one will be taken, and one will be left- what is the catholic response to the protestant belief on that?
28:44 – My Protestant friend thinks that we only should help other Christians. What is the Catholic Response to this claim?
33:25 – I am engaged to someone who is born Muslim and my fiancé asked me to pronounce my belief in the Muslim faith- is that okay to do for my happiness? What should I do?
41:15 – I would never eternally punish my child, I don’t understand how God could do that? I know I am not as merciful as God but I don’t understand. Can you explain?
48:44 – Prior to Vatican two, were there rare exceptions to non-Catholics receiving Communion?
51:17 – In Acts 5:38-39: what about other religions like Hinduism and Islam? Why are they still around even if they are of men and not of God?
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Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
03:41 – God uses pain to punish bad people- but why does he allow natural disasters?
11:14 – What does apostolic succession look like and is it about geography or about doctrinal agreement?
16:23 – Is epistemological solipsism a form of heresy fideism?
22:35 – In Mathew 6, the master says, “You reap what you did not sew.” Can you explain that and what that means?
28:28 – Do you have an alternate suggestion as far as the food pyramid is concerned?
35:33 – Is animal cruelty a sin?
43:44 – How do you prove that Aliens are demons?
51:45 – How old was Jesus when the Magi arrived in Bethlehem and why did Mary and Joseph not return to Nazareth yet?
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Questions Covered:
02:08 – Following up on work ethic discussion – I’m not a Protestant, but from my studies, it seems that the thought behind the Protestant work ethic is that God favors you with earthly success as a sign of your being saved.
08:18 – What is the theological significance of the doctrine of Mary’s perpetual virginity?
16:38 – Why do Catholics celebrate the sabbath on Sunday instead of Saturday?
21:10 – Why does the Catholic Church have a hierarchy instead of everyone having a personal relationship with Christ?
29:33 – My son is starting to fall away from Catholicism because he’s getting ideas about what Jesus did when he was growing up–like he might have been drinking, partying, having sex, etc.
42:07 – Is it possible that the Protestant work ethic developed because they weren’t taking off the feast days that Catholics were taking off?
46:30 – Why is the Protestant Lord’s Prayer different from the Catholic one?
49:16 – Is there a difference in how Catholics and Protestants view guardian angels?
51:15 – How do Catholics interpret “six days shall you work”?
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Questions Covered:
07:28 – Why do Catholics say that Protestants have fewer sacraments when, in one way or another, they do have some form of all of them?
21:20 – What authority is passed down by the apostles through apostolic succession?
29:14 – How would you respond to the Protestants who consult the Bible for every single question they come across?
35:42 – How should Catholics react when we see a non-Catholic wearing a rosary as a piece of jewelry?
42:50 – If you’re a practicing Catholic but you can’t believe in certain dogmas of Catholicism, does that make you a Protestant or Orthodox?
50:30 – Is the Protestant work ethic (seemingly placing a higher emphasis on work than Catholicism does, resulting in higher affluence) real? And what is the Catholic perspective on it? – that’s a little better.
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People today live in physical proximity to one another even as they occupy very different worlds. Father Robert McTeigue, author of Real Philosophy for Real People explains how we got here, and some possible cures.
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 one of my heroes is Walker Percy, who once said, “In the modern world, you can have 20 people sitting on a bus, a city bus together, and none of them are occupying the same world.” And this is the problem …
