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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
If I do not know who I am, I cannot know what to do or even what will make me happy. Joe Heschmeyer explains why Christ has the definitive answer on each person’s identity, and how meeting him settles our identity questions.
Cy Kellett:
Is it possible to know yourself without knowing Jesus? Joe Heschmeyer right now on Focus.
Hello and welcome to Focus, Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and these are without question confused times and among the things that we’re confused about, and this is kind o…
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:
01:15 – I heard your debate with James White on sola scriptura. Can you clarify your defense of the Church hierarchy?
06:39 – Does the Catholic Church believe that the devil is a tool to provide temptations so that people truly have free will?
16:48 – How do you know if God is real?
22:25 – How do you explain the importance of the sacrament of Confirmation to kids who don’t like or understand coming to CCD?
35:40 – God says in the Bible that if you confess your sins, God forgets them. Why then, do we still have purgatory?
48:10 – Is the Body of Christ that Peter received at the Last Supper the same Body of Christ that we receive at Mass, post-Resurrection?
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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:
11:53 – My daughter is living with her fiancé. How can I maintain a relationship with her but also speak the truth to her?
19:29 – Is it permissible for a priest to tell his congregation that they must support the Black Lives Matter organization?
29:09 – How do we know that we are doing the will of God the Father? How do we discern his will in our life?
35:12 – My son is agnostic and says he hates the Catholic Church’s teaching on slavery. He says that God condoned slavery in the Old Testament and Jesus never condemned it. How can I respond?
49:53 – Catholics say that all people are children of God, but the gospel of John says that only those who are baptized are children of God. Which is it?
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A recent survey is heartbreaking for those who know Jesus is God come among us. Larger percentages of Christians no longer believe this. Karlo Broussard explains why we can be confident that Jesus is, in fact, God.
Cy Kellett:
American confusion over the person of Jesus. Karlo Broussard with us next.
Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I’m just going to read you the first line or two of a story from Newsweek magazine that all of us around here found a bit disheartening and …
Catholic Answers’ staff joins Cy and Tim for two hours of open forum.
Questions Covered:
06:18 – From Dave Matheson (Director of Development) – What is the difference between papal supremacy and papal primacy, and why is “supremacy” is favored over “primacy” in the Catholic Church?
17:20 – From Jimmy Akin (Senior Apologist) – How do you memorize Scripture? How do you select the passages that you’ve memorized?
31:13 – Donna Barrack (Director of Marketing) – What do I say when a friend, now a former Catholic, talks about “earthing” or “what the universe is doing for her”? It’s not like she’s asking a question, she’s simply sharing the way she looks at the world.
45:00 – From Chris Costello (Director of IT) – Since Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven, why does her appearance vary in Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe, etc?
50:03 – From Marie Bates (Assistant Producer) What will heaven be like? What will our glorified bodies be like?
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