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
Trent asks listeners why they support abortion and answers by explaining the truth about the dignity of life.
Questions Covered:
13:48 – I am pro-choice because bodily autonomy comes before anyone’s right to life.
29:41 – I am pro-choice because I don’t see that life is in inherent in human beings. There is nothing more special about me than there is about a cow. I don’t think people are that special.
43:08 – I am pro-choice because I think making abortion legal will endanger women and cause back-alley abortions.
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Guest host, Chis Check, asks Fr. Hugh to defend praying for the dead. Fr. Hugh explains why praying for the dead is every Christian’s duty.
Cy Kellett:
What are Catholics doing when we pray for the dead? Father Hugh Barbour is next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your usual host, but we’ve got a guest host today, Chris Check, in conversation with Father Hugh Barbour.
Catholics, as we’ve said on an earlier episode this month, pray for the dead all throughout November.…
How can spouses bring Christ into marriage?
Questions Covered:
17:00 – What are practical ways to pray with a husband who is agnostic?
29:00 – I am getting married in 3 weeks. Do you have any tips for how to make Jesus the center of our relationship?
35:14 – When my husband wasn’t onboard with the faith, I began praying as a family with my children out in the open and he was drawn into prayer with us.
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God created the heavens and the earth. How did He do it?
Questions Covered:
14:37 – What is the official Church teaching on creation and evolution?
23:08 – It’s known that the universe works according to the laws of quantum mechanics, which has no beginning or end. How does this fact work with the Catholic position on evolution?
29:40 – How can it be possible that we are descended from one man and one woman, Adam and Eve?
33:51 – I am teaching fifth grade science right now and I am wondering if you have any idea as to how I can introduce the idea of evolution to them without completely confusing them.
40:29 – I think the Eastern orthodox believe that Earth was established as paradise, and man in it as the pinnacle of creation, and space as evil, as the devil’s. What are your thoughts on this?
44:32 – I am a born-again Christian. Is it true that you are saying that there could be multiple Adams? In that case, were there multiple Eves?
50:10 – I don’t think it has been made clear that Catholics are not required to believe in evolution.
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Questions Covered:
03:23 – Station of the Cross…What is the biblical evidence for Mary’s perpetual virginity?
14:05 – What is God?
17:57 – Are all religions and denominations equal in God’s eyes?
23:02 – Why is it fair for people to go to heaven who live bad lives and then confess their sins at the very end?
28:45 – If Muslims are worshipping the same God as us, do Muslim prophets ever speak to Jesus? If so, why doesn’t he tell them that Islam is not true?
34:50 – Why wasn’t Jesus accepted in his own town when so much was miraculous about his birth and mother?
41:46 – I teach CCD. How can I answer them when they ask if there was incest at the beginning of creation?
43:42 – Why don’t Catholics talk as much about the second pope, Linus?
48:41 – How could God keep Mary from sinning but also preserve her free will?
51:11 – If a priest is living in mortal sin, how does that affect the sacraments?
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