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
Today’s show is set aside for atheists, agnostics, Protestants, and anyone else who is non-Catholic to call in with their questions about the Catholic Church.
Questions Covered:
01:47 – What is the Catholic understanding of the imputation of righteousness as opposed to the impartation of righteousness?
14:49 – Mary is my major stumbling block. How could she possibly be omnipresent?
22:11 – I am reading Rod Bennett’s book, The Apostasy That Wasn’t. My Protestant pastor says the early Church went off the rails almost immediately. What is true?
28:41 – I am a part of the Church of Christ. How is Communion in my Church different from the Eucharist in the Catholic Church?
32:17 – I was supposed to be baptized and come into the Church at Easter, but everything was canceled. Can I be baptized by a Protestant preacher? No one in the Catholic Church seems to know when I’ll be able to be baptized.
41:35 – I am concerned about the use of medals, rosaries, and scapulars. Do you pray to them? Do they give you power? Why are they mandated by the Church?
52:17 – What are your thoughts on the animal sacrifices that continued to take place in Ezekiel and Zechariah, when Jesus is the true sacrifice?
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Today’s show is set aside for atheists, agnostics, Protestants, and anyone else who is non-Catholic to call in with their questions about the Catholic Church.
Questions Covered:
10:00 – I am agnostic but very curious about the Catholic Church after listening to your show recently. What should my next step be?
23:55 – Why was the Latin Mass suppressed in the USA?
35:40 – I was looking for a way to take RCIA online but cannot find anything. Can you help me?
41:50 – Where do I go from here? I have done lots of research and read some books. Also, what is a resource for me to learn about the early Church Fathers and their teachings?
46:23 – How can Catholics believe that going to confession will save or not save someone?
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Fr. Hugh Barbour and Catholic Answers’ president, Christopher Check, acknowledge the struggles that people are experiencing during this challenging time of coronavirus lockdown. They address how we, as Catholics Christians, can best react and deal with the loneliness, anger, sadness, and other feelings that such a crisis has generated.
Christopher Check:
Welcome to Catholic Answers Focus. My name is Christopher Check. I am president of Catholic Answers, sitting in for your usual host, Cy Kellett. Catholic Answers Focus is our podcast here at Catholic Answers, where we don’t take c…
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:
13:17 – Aquinas asserts that an infinite series can not exist, that there must be a first cause. In math, there can be infinite series. Does this disprove Aquinas’ theory?
21:26 – How were moral truths created? Atheists say that our brains and nature evolve our nervous systems to create moral truths.
28:52 – Does Thomas Aquinas differ from the Catholic view on predestination?
42:45 – Why don’t debaters use Revelation 5:13 as evidence for Mary being able to hear multiple prayers?
47:50 – Mother Teresa encouraged people to pray, “Mary, Mother of Jesus, take away all sin from my life.” My Protestant mother wants to know, how can Catholics pray this when it is Jesus who takes away sin?
52:07 – I am a member of the Church of Christ, but I’m married to a Catholic. She has told me that the communion at the Church of Christ doesn’t mean anything, that the Eucharist in the Catholic Church is the real thing. How can I better understand this and how can we talk about this? How is my communion different from the Eucharist?
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Rose Sweet helps Catholics to navigate spousal separation and to understand the Church’s teaching on marriage.
Questions Covered:
16:52 – I have a son who is getting ready to file for divorce. He is married to an abusive woman who is on drugs and there are 3 kids involved. How will the Church view this?
21:55 – Is Rose Sweet available for private advice?
23:23 – I was previously in the marine corps and was married, but things didn’t work out. I wasn’t religious at that time. Will it ever be possible for me to have a wife again?
30:50 – When is it okay to realize that divorce is the right answer? My dad was sexually abusing my mom and me and she finally left him and got a divorce once it affected me.
34:39 – I have been separated from my wife for 8 years. I don’t think either of us intends on getting married to anyone else and we may get back together someday. She just filed for divorce. Will we still be married in the eyes of the Church if we divorce?
42:38 – My husband and I are separated. I have my stuff in the car because I just left him. We still love each other, but we’ve had so many complications. What can I do? I am not a Catholic.
46:45 – What is a justification for getting an annulment? My wife already married someone else.
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