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:
03:14 – What exactly was the Enlightenment and how does it relate to church teaching?
10:22 – Why does each diocese sets the age to receive confirmation? Why do some parishes take it even further to require activities and hours to attain the sacrament and other parishes within the same city do not?
13:59 – Can God love one person more than another? Does God love St. John more than St. Thomas, for example?
19:14 – What exactly did the Council of Trent declare about the Latin Vulgate? Should all Catholics assume that the Latin Vulgate is more accurate and is “superior” than the New Testament in the original Greek?
29:11 – I’ve been led to believe that a natural marriage is more than just mutual permission to perform the “marital act” but involves the intention on both parties to form a union oriented toward the procreation of children. A union formed for merely economic or legal reasons (with no procreative intent) would not be a true “marriage”. That said, one traditional view of Mary and Joseph’s union was that she was entrusted to him for protection and provision in what was intended to be a sexless, childless union. This seem irreconcilable with our natural law understanding of marriage. Is it acceptable to think that the union of Mary and Joseph was a “marriage” on in the legal sense? Sufficient to pass on inheritances (like inheriting the kingship of David), but otherwise not a true natural marriage?
37:33 – I thought Jesus and the Father were equal. In John 14:28 You heard me say to you, ‘I go away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I go to the Father; for the Father is greater than I.
43:12 – If Jesus submitted his DNA to Ancestry.com would it prove that he shared DNA with Joseph? With Mary?
46:47- Is it “ok” to consider that the great flood was brought about by the end of the last ice age, thus fitting many of the world’s culture’s take on flood legends?
53:27 – Why and when did Saint Peter go to Antioch and Rome?
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Questions Covered:
13:30 – Is there any possible way to completely avoid purgatory after death and go straight to heaven?
19:18 – I know that we should pray for the souls that are in purgatory. Can we do this for the souls in hell so that they can go to purgatory, then heaven?
23:13 – Where is purgatory?
28:40 – How does a prayer affect someone in purgatory?
35:07 – Is purgatory a metaphysical place or a process?
42:38 – How can I explain to my Protestant family why we believe in purgatory? I want a short and concise way to explain it.
47:22 – Is purgatory guaranteed? I heard recently that it is not.
52:15 – I am Protestant and I do not believe in purgatory. I have a friend who does deliverance ministry and he doesn’t believe in purgatory, but he has experienced people caught between heaven and hell. I do think there is something there.
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Questions Covered:
06:11 – Is it true that Mary remained a virgin? In the gospel of Matthew, it sounds like she had relations with Joseph after Jesus was born.
16:55 – I got married in the Presbyterian church but was raised Catholic. Am I in mortal sin because I am no longer Catholic?
23:14 – I have trouble with the God of the Bible. Why would God make the universe so large and time so vast?
40:58 – How do you know if God is speaking to you or if it is just your own thoughts? How can you discern when the Holy Spirit is speaking?
46:11 – Why don’t Catholics believe that the new Jerusalem of the Bible is a physical place? What do they believe about this?
51:22 – Did the Magi visiting Christ as a baby or the other spectacular events of his childhood affect his ministry as an adult? We don’t hear any reference of these stories when he is an adult.
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