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:
02:04 – How should we interpret 1 Cor 4:1-5? It sounds like it’s going against the authority of the Church to declare someone a saint.
11:23 – What is the Church’s stance on book-burning?
16:55 – Did St. Thomas teach that God loves some people more than others?
22:00 – Is the book “Mary Magdalene” by Anne Catherine Emerich an accurate book?
35:37 – What is the third secret of Fatima?
43:20 – In light of the scandal about the priest who was invalidly baptized, how do we know the apostles were baptized correctly?
45:30 – If baptism removes original sin, and both parents are baptized, how is it transmitted to their children?
47:30 – Jesus once said he came to save the Jews. When did that change to saving the gentiles too?
50:30 – Why did the apostles receive the Holy Spirit if they weren’t baptized?
Resources Mentioned
Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World
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Questions Covered:
04:13 – When the Church says Mary was free from sin, does that mean she was free from objective sin or subjective sin?
06:52 – Is it a problem for me to start a school for classical education when my diocese doesn’t want me to?
14:29 – When is it appropriate to watch certain news topics around people with morally incorrect opinions who might be scandalized?
20:04 – Leviticus 25 says Israelites shouldn’t be enslaved but foreigners can be. How can I talk about this?
24:39 – How true is the description of “devouring flames” in purgatory?
33:23 – Could the number of the beast represent a lack of the sabbath day?
44:21 – My brother was cremated but not buried. Are we supposed to bury him? If so, how should I bring it up to my family?
50:08 – Should we pray the Luminous mysteries if they weren’t revealed by Our Lady to St. Dominic?
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Questions Covered:
13:38 – Why do Catholics place such emphasis on confessing to a priest?
22:41 – Why do Catholics believe in the concept of lost salvation?
31:00 – When you lose your salvation, how can you get it back?
34:40 – Aren’t we saved just by believing in Jesus? Wouldn’t works come from being in that state of salvation?
48:20 – What is the problem with Christian Mortalism?
53:19 – When Protestants object to purgatory because “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord,” is it theologically sound to say that in purgatory we actually are present with the Lord?
Resources mentioned:
The Immortal in You by Michael Augros
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Questions Covered:
22:35 – I had a nondenominational friend who helped me grow closer to my faith.
34:35 – My ex-Catholic evangelical sister is marrying another evangelical. Can I attend their wedding?
43:30 – I was helped in my faith by two famous Protestants who got me to read the Bible and by the charismatic movement that was both Catholic and Protestant.
47:35 – I was helped by a book “Christian Secret to a Happy Life” by a Quaker, Anna Smith. It seems useful to every Christian, but I want to see if Mark’s heard of it.
49:30 – My protestant friend helped me back to my Catholic faith.
52:29 – I was helped to the Catholic faith by the Salvation Army.
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The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls changed the way modern scholars view Judaism in the time of Jesus. John Bergsma, author of Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Revealing the Jewish Roots of Christianity, joins us to explain some of the ways the scrolls shed light on the gospels.
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. One of the things we have to defend our Catholic faith against is the idea that modern scholarship debunks the Gospels, or somehow shows them not to be leg…
