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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
23:44 – My guardian angel has saved my life so many times.
29:36 – Churches have been shut down here for 3 months and I have really been struggling without the Eucharist. Why is the American Church reacting like this?
39:50 – With the trajectory of where this is going, do you think the Bible will be taken away from us or banned?
45:40 – In Denver, they did away with Columbus Day.
48:23 – I have been turning to prayer a lot more since the pandemic started and I see a lot of good coming from it.
51:51 – Why is there a contradiction sometimes in points of views within the Catholic Church when Catholic values should unite us all?
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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:
00:52 – How do you know God exists?
05:24 – Is there documentation or primary sources of Eucharistic miracles for a person who would want to read medical reports before believing in them?
14:59 – What is the Catholic teaching on tattoos?
21:27 – In Revelation 6:10, why are the martyrs so eager to have their blood avenged?
28:47 – What is the significance of the different vain sayings like, “Oh my gosh,” or, “Oh my God”? What is wrong about these?
40:40 – The NAB’s translation of the “Our Father” is different. Why don’t we recite the version that is in the NAB?
46:35 – How can I respond to a Protestant who says that veneration and treatment of the Real Presence in the Eucharist is modern and that the early Church wouldn’t have cared if some fell to the floor?
50:23 – Is Jesus the only mediator to God?
Resources Mentioned:
Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World by Jacalyn Duffin
The Bible Is A Catholic Book
Teaching with Authority
A Daily Defense: 365 Days (plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church
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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:
02:42 – Hypothetically, in the future, if there was a secular utopian future with no suffering, pain, or death, how would a Christian live through that environment?
05:54 – Why do Catholics venerate the saints and Mary?
16:11 – In Jesus’ time, how would they have referred to different parts of the Old Testament? Would they have listed chapter and verse?
21:04 – Can a Catholic be a Grateful Dead fan?
24:02 – Is it acceptable to play video games which have a god, magic, or violence if all the players are aware that it is not real?
32:10 – When were the four gospels written and how do we know?
43:33 – Why does the Church focus on Augustine more than the other fathers?
48:35 – Do we as Catholics have a responsibility to avoid public behaviors that may scandalize our non-Catholic brethren, though the action itself may not be wrong?
Resources Mentioned:
The Bible Is A Catholic Book
Teaching with Authority
A Daily Defense: 365 Days (plus one) to Becoming a Better Apologist
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church
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Questions Covered:
02:23 – How can I best speak to Protestants who speak about Jesus dismantling Jewish tradition and starting Christianity as this completely independent, separate, and different entity? They eschew the old and believe that this faith was completely new and unrelated.
12:47 – Why do Catholics confess to a priest when the Bible says to take sins straight to God? Where in Scripture do you have evidence for that?
33:40 – Why are there arguments that the Pope wasn’t officially recognized until way later past the third century?
42:00 – Protestants always ask about salvation. What is a quick way to explain the Catholic understanding of salvation?
48:28 – How do you explain the supremacy of the papacy?
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Questions Covered:
07:52 – Roman Catholics tell me that there is an increase of justification or faith plus works because of the loss of salvation due to mortal sins. If a Catholic never commits a mortal sin, then does that mean they are living Sola Fide, without works?
17:08 – How do Catholics know that the way they are electing popes is the way the early Church did it?
22:24 – I am a Protestant. Where do Catholics get the theology of redemptive suffering?
33:48 – In talking with a Baptist friend of mine, we spoke about the papacy and the original Church being the Catholic Church. She challenged me saying that there are many religious orders within the Catholic Church, just like the denominations in the Protestant world. How can I respond to this?
42:25 – My family is becoming Catholic. I have family members who say that the early Church was not Catholic until Constantine. How can I respond to them?
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