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:
17:19 – If the Holy Spirit gives the gift of tongues, how is babbling building up the body of Christ?
23:16 – Why is there a need for confirmation if a baptized child has already received the Holy Spirit?
33:12 – Is Acts 2:1-11 and Jn 20:19-23 the same event of the descent of the Holy Spirit?
36:03 – When did it go from Holy Ghost to Holy Spirit?
41:45 – My priest friend said the charismatic movement is a bad idea. What are your thoughts?
47:41 – How does the Church regard speaking in tongues? And also speaking in tongues in protestant churches?
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Questions Covered:
17:56 – I employ young people. They need to be exposed to something that goes against the culture.
22:41 – I had a daughter who was very involved in the faith and then is now extremely anti-Catholic. Its exactly the process that you’re talking about.
33:49 – I’ve heard it said that the way the devil attacks our children is through victimhood.
39:10 – How can one defend yourself against these ideologies especially for someone who spends a lot of time alone?
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Questions Covered:
06:14 – Did Mary ever die? Wouldn’t there be a record of that?
10:07 – Why does the Church promote the use of hospice care? It feels like mercy killing.
19:04 – How can a Catholic best explain Pentecost and the birth of the Church to a Protestant?
24:10 – I’m taking a college course and there’s a group of people who are taking the course in not a good direction. How can I as a Catholic be charitable to them while trying to keep us on track?
30:20 – When is typology the legitimate exercise in pattern recognition?
34:47 – What is the great war in heaven mentioned in Rev. 12, going to look like?
40:38 – In relation to the earlier call on hospice. How does Terri Shaivo innocent look from the Catholic perspective?
46:00 – Pope Francis allegedly made a comment saying that homosexuals live the gift of love. Is this true?
49:06 – Do we have to pray aloud to Mary?
50:40 – Does faith/believe or repentance need to be present for baptism to be valid? If it does, how is infant baptism valid?
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Questions Covered:
02:48 – a gym that I want to join does yoga and reiki. Is it ok for me to join even if I wouldn’t partake in those activities?
05:38 – Why does our Lord tell us to pray and ask him for what we want but also tell us to radically surrender to him? This seems contradictory.
10:10 – Regarding your debate alongside Trent on salvation. What are you depending upon when it comes to salvation?
18:38 – Is there biblical proof for different levels of heaven?
23:53 – Regarding the infallibility of the pope. Should we never question what the pope says or does?
29:20 – My friend asked why we pray to saints. How do I reply?
33:03 – How do we find out what is actually Church teaching vs what’s just popular opinion?
35:25 – How can the Catholic Church view Orthodox weddings valid if there is no exchange of vows during the liturgy?
41:22 – What’s the Church’s teaching on if Mary had knowledge of Jesus’ divinity?
44:35 – How does sanctification fit into the conversation of justification?
48:42 – When we talk to Protestants, what should be the approach to a lifelong Protestant vs a convert from Catholicism?
51:06 – Germanus of Constantinople said we did not need any other mediator besides Jesus. What’s the Church’s response to this?
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Questions Covered:
03:08 – Regarding Mary’s bodily death, is it a valid theology opinion or position to take that she did not die but was assumed without dying first, given its not part of the dogma itself?
05:46 – I heard a priest say that even an atheist can get to heaven, is this true?
16:52 – Why does the rosary have ten Hail Marys in a row? Is there a significance to this?
22:28 – Do rights exist or are rights just something that came out of the enlightenment period?
35:13 – Can the verse Act 8:16 and Acts 19:1-6 be used in an argument for the efficacy of Baptism?
44:35 – Is there any connection of “That which dwells” from the Old Testament to the Holy Spirit?
52:47 – Why are the Gospels written in third person?
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