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
Questions Covered:
01:23 – Revelation 3:12 talks about ‘writing upon him a new name.’ What does that mean?
08:00 – What resources can I provide my sister with that would prove to her that the Catholic Church is the true Church? She just left the Mormon Church, believes in God, but is struggling with belief in the Bible.
16:00 – How can Catholics believe in a pope when the 7th Council of Carthage said that they didn’t think a bishop should have power over other bishops?
21:24 – I am a believer, but not a Catholic. When was the start of the relationship between Roman Catholics and Christianity?
37:20 – How do I respond to my orthodox friends who critique the Catholic Church because of the Crusades?
44:23 – I do manual labor and often listen to theological videos or podcasts while I am working. Can you recommend some less heady material that I could listen to that would draw me toward God but not be quite so intellectual?
50:28 – I have read some things in Exodus, Leviticus, and Joshua where God made someone’s heart hard or obstinate. Doesn’t this contradict the idea of free will?
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Questions Covered:
13:40 – How do we debunk reincarnation, especially when people claim to have a testimony supporting it?
22:52 – How do ethos, pathos, and logos relate to the Trinity? How does kairos relate to the Virgin Mary?
31:43 – I have heard some orthodox claim that the infallibility of the pope and the papacy were invented in the 600s. Is that true? How can I respond?
35:45 – Where did the idea for evil even come from if God is all good and loving? How could he create evil?
44:49 – How do I get past the anger and disappointment I feel with the Church scandals and how they were dealt with?
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Karlo Broussard, author of Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel, and the Church, answers the common Freudian objection to belief in God—It’s just wish fulfillment.
Cy Kellett:
Is religion just a coping mechanism. Karlo Broussard is next. Hello and welcome to focus. The Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. We’ll do a little defending today against the accusation that religion is all about a psychological need we have, to be comforted, most especially to be comforted in the face of the fact that we know that we…
Questions Covered:
02:23 – Since Adam and Eve were supposedly the first two people on the earth, how could they be the parents of everyone? Wouldn’t there have to be another family at least?
06:33 – I am Protestant and am wondering, since idolatry is a mortal sin, does that mean that those who committed idolatry in Maccabees did not go to purgatory?
16:23 – Should the Church have Eucharistic ministers or should the priest be the only one to distribute Holy Communion?
20:50 – Does social media bring us closer to God or further away? In your opinion, has social media been a positive influence in evangelization?
28:54 – How do you respond to Protestants about Judith and the deuterocanonical books being historically inaccurate?
36:08 – I am going through RCIA. In speaking with my Protestant dad about confession, he says you shouldn’t confess to a man, but to Jesus Christ. He doesn’t think the authority of the apostles extends down to priests today. How can I defend the sacrament of confession and apostolic succession to my dad?
44:49 – What is the difference between Final Judgement and particular judgement?
50:10 – Recently you wrote about Pachamama and Pope Francis, saying that what happened at the Vatican was not idolatry. How can you defend that?
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Questions Covered:
04:01 – How strong is the argument of the incoherence of nihilism in proving the existence of God?
12:14 – It seems clear that the Holy Spirit is not only in the Catholic Church, but moves and works in other Christian denominations, as well. How can we say there is a need for a united Church, therefore?
17:45 – My wife and I are expecting. Does the baby receive the grace of the Eucharist through her reception of it?
21:40 – Do people in the afterlife have free will?
29:05 – Did St. Paul have any letters that he wrote which did not make it into the Bible?
32:00 – How can we address the atheistic objection that there were multiple forms of Christianity from the beginning, so it can’t be true?
43:04 – How do you get from “an unborn fetus has a right to life” to making abortion illegal? I have not heard a good defense of making it illegal.
50:50 – My friend asked how it is just that God makes the laws of morality and then judges people based on those laws. Are the laws of morality set in stone? Is there a possibility that there are other moral laws that are correct?
Resources Mentioned:
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/st-pauls-big-magic-trick
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