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
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:
06:35 – When can you disagree with the state and cease obedience?
16:24 – If a person commits serious crimes against children and commits murder, then suicide, is there any chance that he could be in purgatory?
20:36 – What is the role of Church councils?
28:33 – What is the difference between a soul and a spirit? Are they the same thing?
39:55 – I thought that if we received communion and had confession by Divine Mercy Sunday, our sins and the eternal punishment would be removed from us. Is this true?
49:03 – Can a Catholic be a vegan?
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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:
06:10 – What does the Church teach about dreams and interpretations?
15:13 – How can I defend Mary’s Immaculate Conception to a non-Catholic?
24:22 – Is a soldier committing a mortal sin if they kill someone in battle?
37:17 – How can Catholic people claim to have objective morality?
49:38 – If you go to confession and die right away, do you still have to go to purgatory, or do you go straight to heaven?
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Why is the Church so defensive about marriage even when it is not sacramental? Why does the Church insist on the goodness of natural marriage? What does this say about sacramental marriage?
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And today, we take a look at marriage with Father Hugh Barbour, Norbertine priest. I know the temptation is killing you right now.
Fr. Hugh Barbour:
What temptation?
CK:
You know what I’m talking about. I could see the word forming in your mouth.
FHB:
No. No, absolutely not. I don’t know what you…
