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:
12:15 – Why do Catholics abstain from meat and fast on Fridays?
15:21 – Who rules over purgatory?
17:01 – What are the Catholic arguments for the existence of God?
29:11 – Why does the Catholic Church not allow the spreading of a deceased person’s ashes?
36:45 – What does the phrase “the sacrifice of the Mass” mean?
43:35 – What does the Catholic Church teach about unbaptized persons and purgatory and salvation?
48:35 – Why does the Church use the phrase “like the dewfall” in the 2nd version of the Eucharistic prayer?
50:43 – Why does the second paragraph of Nostra Aetate, from Vatican II, say that Buddhists can attain perfection?
Resources Mentioned:
5 Proofs of the Existence of God by Ed Fesser
Aquinas’s Way to God
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John DeRosa, author of One Less God Than You, explains what classical theism is, why the Catholic Church embraces it, and how to defend it against less noble visions of the divine.
Cy Kellett:
Does classical theism still work? John DeRosa 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.
Cy Kellett:
One of the things we have to defend is the existence of God, but it’s not just that we believe that God exists and we have to defend that. There are things that we can say …
Questions Covered:
05:14 – Why do Catholics light candles in front of saints or Jesus in their church?
11:41 – What is the limit to culpability to sin? If you pay money to a college that doesn’t uphold Catholic values, how culpable are you in their sinful behavior?
17:45 – Can a Catholic read the King James bible?
30:33 – It seems like Moses changes God’s will in Exodus 32:14. How are we supposed to understand that as Catholics?
36:24 – How are we meant to understand what Jesus said to Mary and John when he was on the Cross?
43:45 – How did Jesus fulfill the prophecy about Jesus gathering the lost tribes of Israel?
50:02 – How can I explain to someone why we pray the rosary?
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Questions Covered:
06:29 – How do you respond to a Protestant who believes in soul sleep? When I present the story of Lazarus and the rich man, they say it’s purely symbolic.
16:50 – My uncle is divorced and remarried. Could this be valid? How should I behave toward his family?
22:40 – In what order did the Annunciation, Visitation, and Joseph’s dream happen? Did Joseph accompany Mary to Elizabeth’s home?
28:36 – How can we best understand the mark of the beast?
33:18 – Can a baby be baptized still in the womb in an emergency?
36:15 – I have heard people mention a break in the Trinity. What is that? It is evidenced by Jesus saying God has abandoned him on the cross.
43:45 – If Mary did not know that she was immaculately conceived, then what did she mean by calling God her savior in Luke 1:47?
50:22 – I am a new convert and I don’t understand what a plenary indulgence is. Can you explain it to me?
Resources Mentioned:
Ep. 138 – JAMW
A Primer on Indulgences by Jimmy Akin
Myths on Indulgences by Jimmy Akin
Pope Paul 6th Indulgentiarum Doctrina
The Drama of Salvation
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Questions Covered:
04:32 – How does a Catholic deal with some of the hard passages of scripture like 1 Samuel 15:3, in which God seems to be advocating genocide?
15:57 – What do Catholics mean when they talk about a “broken world?”
22:22 – Are video games that include things like demon hunting okay to play?
24:07 – Does the Bible ever use false images to represent the truth?
28:45 – Based on Genesis, wouldn’t every animal in paradise be a vegan?
33:48 – What’s the Catholic stance on fasting?
42:47 – What’s the difference between the deity of Christ and the divinity of Christ?
44:18 – What is the Catholic view on predestination?
48:48 – What happens when a Catholic receives the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin?
Resources Mentioned:
jimmyakin.com/fast
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