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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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Yes, the earliest Christians celebrated the Mass, and they did so in ways that are impressively similar to today’s Mass. In fact, the Church lived as a liturgical community from the very moment of its birth.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host. We’ve been having some conversations in recent weeks with Tim Staples, Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, about the early church and some of the things that are said about the early church. And trying to dig into what’s true about the life of the …
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:
02:50 – Is heaven in the realm of time?
12:27 – How many apocryphal books are there?
17:09 – What does Galatians 3:24 mean?
19:11 – What was the Church’s stance on liberalism pre and post-Vatican II?
39:55 – Is it possible that God is more than three persons, but that he has only revealed three?
47:30 – Was the wine alcoholic at the Wedding at Cana and the Last Supper?
50:16 – When the Protestants removed the 7 books from Scripture, it left them with 66 books. I explain that 7 and 3 have special value in Scripture, while 6 does not, so 66 could not be the total number of books in the Bible. Am I off base here?
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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:
02:25 – What is the difference between Pentecost in the Old Testament and the New Testament?
14:27 – How can a Catholic educate themselves so they can defend the Church from people who say it is the whore of Babylon?
19:56 – Are 7th Day Adventists Christians?
29:26 – Is 1 Corinthians 15:23 evidence that Mary was not assumed into heaven?
37:00 – Does the devil think he’s doing the right thing?
49:21 – Is it true that you must promote the Black Lives Matter movement to be pro-life? It seems like they are pro-abortion.
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Questions Covered:
03:33 – There is a young man telling me that Jesus overturning the tables at the temple gives Catholics authority to publicly acknowledge and punish people for their sins. How can I respond to this?
17:21 – How do I respond to people who say there is no purgatory so we shouldn’t be praying for the dead? Is it right for me to tell them that the souls are more alive in heaven?
22:50 – What is the Church’s teaching on using the Lord’s name in vain and how can I defend that teaching to others?
43:35 – Do you have a secular defense of why Catholic adoption agencies won’t place children with same-sex couples?
50:00 – How do I introduce God to people without seeming too pushy?
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Questions Covered:
16:47 – How can I defend the Catholic Church as the one, true Church?
20:45 – I explained Aquinas’ first way to my biology professor who is an atheist and said there must be an unmoved mover who began this universe and world. She didn’t accept. How can I talk to her about this?
35:54 – How can I answer a Protestant friend who believes that Jesus came to give us our best life now, and that if we don’t have good things, we are not believing hard enough? She loosely believes in a prosperity gospel.
47:20 – How can I respond to Protestant objections to justification?
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