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!
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Most Recent Episodes
John DeRosa debuts his new book, One Less God Than You.
If you have spent any time on Twitter, in a college quad, or at the dinner table with a freshman philosophy major, you’re probably familiar with the litany of slogans that religious skeptics employ in an attempt to rescue you from the foolish belief that God exists.
Even our public schools and mainstream media often can’t help but parrot the tropes and memes that seem to leave thinking people with no alternative but to embrace atheism.
How can a Christian respond?
You can ignore them—but then you miss a chance to evangelize and to strengthen your own faith. You can spend years mastering theistic apologetics before you reply—but that takes, well, years. Or you can let John DeRosa (Classical Theism) help. In One Less God Than You, he breaks down twenty of the most common atheist challenges, exposes their substantive and logical weaknesses, and shows you how to craft effective answers.
Atheism is more aggressive and widespread than ever before, so we believers have a crucial task before us. Read One Less God Than You and prepare yourself to respond with the joyful truth that God is real.
Questions Covered:
14:02 – If there’s more than one church with different beliefs, then which one should an atheist choose? Why should they join a church when people of faith are confused?
17:50 – Why don’t you use the argument of miracles to convince people about the existence of God?
23:15 – What is the best way to answer an intellectual atheist who talks way over my head?
30:16 – How can I respond to people who claim to be Catholic, but they don’t believe and follow Catholic teaching?
33:30 – How would you answer, “If God is all good and all powerful, then why does he allow so much evil and suffering?”
42:20 – I come from an atheist family. How can we go about evangelizing family when they seem apathetic to the question of God?
45:38 – My kids say evolution is truth and proven and faith is a myth. How can I respond?
48:45 – How do I deal with friends who are on the fence about faith in general? They don’t want to believe that God even existed, let alone that he died for us.
51:33 – Someone is marrying into our family who has no religion. How can I start a conversation about faith with him?
Resources Mentioned:
New Proofs for the Existence of God by Fr. Spitzer
5 Proofs for the Existence of God by Ed Feser
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What is the relationship between the soul in a state of grace and the Blessed Trinity? What does it mean to say that the Trinity comes to dwell in my soul? What is the evidence for the presence of the Blessed Trinity in the soul?
CK:
Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett your host and we welcome once again, our chaplain father, Hugh Barbour, Norbertine priest, former Prior of St. Michael’s Abbey in Orange County. Hello Father Hugh.
FHB:
Hello there.
CK:
Father, I feel like I understand almost everything, but there’s a couple of things I don’t un…
Questions Covered:
06:12 – Due to COVID-19, do kids who were supposed to get their First Communion this year still get to have it?
15:17 – When we receive First Communion, why do we have to go through all those classes?
19:13 – The churches are going to reopen in two weeks, but our dad doesn’t want us to go outside the house. Should we obey him or the church?
23:18 – What is the role of the Church in political life?
35:55 – Why did God make church?
44:13 – How can God exist all the time if nobody made him?
47:50 – Can a priest say that you can’t receive communion on the tongue?
50:24 – Why does God allow the riots?
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Questions Covered:
23:44 – My guardian angel has saved my life so many times.
29:36 – Churches have been shut down here for 3 months and I have really been struggling without the Eucharist. Why is the American Church reacting like this?
39:50 – With the trajectory of where this is going, do you think the Bible will be taken away from us or banned?
45:40 – In Denver, they did away with Columbus Day.
48:23 – I have been turning to prayer a lot more since the pandemic started and I see a lot of good coming from it.
51:51 – Why is there a contradiction sometimes in points of views within the Catholic Church when Catholic values should unite us all?
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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:
00:52 – How do you know God exists?
05:24 – Is there documentation or primary sources of Eucharistic miracles for a person who would want to read medical reports before believing in them?
14:59 – What is the Catholic teaching on tattoos?
21:27 – In Revelation 6:10, why are the martyrs so eager to have their blood avenged?
28:47 – What is the significance of the different vain sayings like, “Oh my gosh,” or, “Oh my God”? What is wrong about these?
40:40 – The NAB’s translation of the “Our Father” is different. Why don’t we recite the version that is in the NAB?
46:35 – How can I respond to a Protestant who says that veneration and treatment of the Real Presence in the Eucharist is modern and that the early Church wouldn’t have cared if some fell to the floor?
50:23 – Is Jesus the only mediator to God?
Resources Mentioned:
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World by Jacalyn Duffin
The Bible Is A Catholic Book
Teaching with Authority
A Daily Defense: 365 Days (plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church
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