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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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Most Recent Episodes
Cy interviews two of our favorite women religious about their work sharing the love of God with others, and how we gain confidence in the love of God.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and today we tackle a question that is close to the hearts, sometimes closer to the heart perhaps than to the mind. How do we know that God loves us?
One of the ways that we can explore that is with people who share the message of God’s love with other people. We have two of our favorite guests here with us today, Sister Maris Stella and Sister Mic…
Questions Covered:
• 03:26 – Is it possible that we are made in the image and likeness of God due to the Grandfather Paradox of Jesus assuming human flesh to begin with?
• 08:48 – My friends came up with a fun weird question for the next show: If I am transporting the Eucharist in my car, can I use the carpool lane?
• 13:43 – Do frozen embryos make their guardian angels wait with them?
• 15:08 – Will the bodies of people in hell (or heaven for that matter) need to eat and drink? Will our bodies just, subsist without sustenance?
• 19:38 – How was the holy house of Loretto transported from Nazareth to Italy.
• 22:00 – What happens to a person who can’t remember their sins through memory loss from, say, an accident, aging, or a disease like Alzheimer’s? Do they cease being culpable for their sins if they can’t remember them to repent and ask for forgiveness and reconcile with God?
• 29:22 – What could the physics of the “new heavens and new earth” (new creation) be like, such that this would no longer disintegrate due to entropy, etc.?
• 35:32 – If the Star Trek style transporter kills the person and creates a clone with that person’s memories, would a person who gets transported in such a manner have to be baptized or confirmed again? Would a priest who gets transported have to be ordained again? What about confession? What if you commit a mortal sin, then get transported, would the clone with your memories have to go to confession?
• 42:18 – If hell is complete and final separation from God, and God is necessary for existence, how do people and angels exist in hell? Another one – is the devil in hell yet, and if not, are the people in hell waiting for him to get there or are they all waiting until the end and judgement to enter hell?
• 47:41 – What are the spiritual and perhaps biological implications of combining human and pig or cow DNA? Besides having no justifiable health consideration and being seriously wrong for tampering with trying to create previously non-existing life forms, is it possible that a cow or pig could come to the realization that it will wind up as steak or bacon? If it is well known that trauma from violent wars can be passed down and sudden unknown memories which seem like deja vu do happen, is there enough information here to make human/animal chimeras unequivocally illegal? Who do we call?
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Questions Covered:
• 19:10 – I work at a large corporation that has a big Pride celebration each year. Every year it seems it gets more forced upon the employees. How do I handle this? If I decline to wear a sticker I get dirty looks.
• 23:57 – Thank you for your work at Courage. How can I get parishes in my area to cooperate with Courage?
• 31:35 – My parish seems to support homosexuality. What if a gay person wants to join the Church? They would join with a false idea of what the Church teaches.
• 41:26 – I recently came back to the Church after an active homosexual lifestyle. Why do the bishops condone Fr. Martin’s actions and not support Courage more?
• 49:23 – I have a gay friend who asked me to help him make some T-shirts for Pride Month. How do I stick to my values and maintain our friendship?
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Questions Covered:
• 15:00 – I heard that there is a story or diary of Mary’s life before Jesus was born. Is this true? Also, Cy — what is your favorite Joan of Arc movie?
• 19:29 – Is sinning on Sunday different or worse than sinning on any other day? And in Confession does one need to confess the results of a particular sin? For example, if I overeat and experience pain as a result of that, do I need to confess that pain?
• 23:40 – Does God sometimes use numbers to communicate to people through signs?
• 28:40 – Is Catholicism compatible with Socialism?
• 2. Elijah… Des Moines Iowa… YouTube… 40:55 – I hear some people say they don’t believe in Vatican II. How can they say that and be Catholic? What about Vatican II do they reject?
• 48:25 – The Bible (I think Corinthians) says that Jesus went back to Heaven because he came from Heaven. But if we humans began here, and not in Heaven, how can we go to Heaven?
• 50:54 – Which is the way of the Catholic Faith when one stands at the gates of Heaven?: “I didn’t commit a mortal sin,” or “I have nothing to give you but I entrust myself to your mercy.”
Resources Mentioned:
20 Answers: Catholic Social Teaching
Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?
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Question Covered:
• 06:45 – What resources would you recommend for someone trying to learn Latin?
• 12:55 – I’ve been offered a position as a board member to a Catholic school. The oath of fidelity mentions things like “Christian obedience” to what a bishop will “declare and establish.” Can you help me understand the oath of fidelity?
• 12:55 – I’ve been offered a position as a board member to a Catholic organization. The oath of fidelity mentions things like “Christian obedience” to what an ordinary will “declare and establish.” Can you help me understand the oath of fidelity?
• 18:30 – If God is all-merciful why did Jesus say about Judas, “better that he had never been born”?
• 28:37 – I have a hard time believing in God, but the fear of Hell keeps me scared straight. What would you or the Church say about someone like me?
• 33:11 – Is it true that the primary mission of the Church is to save souls?
• 35:10 – Why is the Catholic Church so against left-wing politics but not right-wing?
• 44:12 – Was it okay for me to put my parents on hospice? They passed a couple years ago and we had them on hospice at the end. Now I’m wondering if that was the wrong decision.
• 49:43 – In Acts 5:29, Peter and the apostles are persecuted for preaching the faith and they say, “we are not subject to men but to God.” How does that mesh with Church authority?
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