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:
03:53 – Is it okay to sing “Mary, Did You Know” before I am a Catholic?
12:07 – How does the Catholic Church determine which miracles or apparitions to investigate?
21:44 – I want to suggest to the President that he proclaim that all unborn babies are citizens of the United States. Do you think him doing that could solve some of the abortion issues?
28:54 – How can males be the bride of Christ after they get their bodies back at the Resurrection?
32:06 – Why do Catholics kiss the ring of a bishop?
36:20 – Is Latin the Church’s official language? How did that come to pass?
44:04 – I am thinking about going to Confession tomorrow and I am trying to get my mother to go with me, too. How can I explain the importance of Confession? Is it mentioned in Scripture?
48:55 – The Baltimore Catechism says, “We are unworthy to address God ourselves, so we ask our holy friends [saints] to pray to God for us.” Is it true that we are not worthy to pray to God?
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Questions Covered:
06:10 – Does Mary talk to you through the Eucharist?
12:59 – What was the first Church?
29:23 – Does the Big Bang theory suggest that all things are quantum mechanically entangled? If so, what does this imply?
36:55 – In the Bible, it seems like there are parts of Scripture that contradict the 10 Commandments. How can I reconcile this?
44:05 – Why doesn’t the Catholic Church baptize in Jesus’ name in the way that the Bible says to?
48:43 – How much certainty does the Church have that Adam and Eve exist? Is this an infallible teaching?
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Questions Covered:
06:08 – Why do Protestants reject the seven deuterocanonical books?
16:15 – My daughter’s boyfriend says that hell is not in the Bible, so he doesn’t believe in it. How can I respond to that?
21:55 – Is there anything in the Bible that points us toward the use of indulgences?
29:53 – St. John said when he baptized Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Later, he directs his disciples to ask Jesus if he was the Messiah. Isn’t this a contradiction?
36:58 – Why is it that of the people who asked Jesus for help, that Jesus called the Canaanite woman a dog?
45:05 – Why are there certain phrases in Scripture that are left untranslated?
49:12 – In Jonah 3:10, it talks about the people of Nineveh repenting and God does not do evil to the city. I thought God was not capable of evil, but the word is used here. Can you clarify this?
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Who were the Magi? What did the birth of Jesus actually look like? Find out here, with Steve Ray.
Questions Covered:
19:26 – What do you know about the Magi? Who were they? Why would they bring a baby gold, frankincense, and myrrh?
30:52 – Why is Jesus’ genealogy traced through St. Joseph?
35:13 – Did Mary suffer the pains of childbirth?
42:15 – When we hear the prayer, “Hail Mary,” I understand that comes from Scripture. Is that what the angel said? How would we know? Did Mary tell people? What does it mean when Scripture says, “Mary pondered these things in her heart”?
47:50 – Can we take the stories of Jesus and Mary’s life, and especially of the Nativity, as experienced by the mystics?
50:42 – Did the Magi make it there on time for the birth of Christ?
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The author of The Bible Is a Catholic Book reviews the biblical evidence for the Star of Bethlehem. What was it? How did the Magi follow it? Was it real or just a literary device?
Cy: What should we make of the star of Bethlehem? Next, Jimmy Akin. Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host. And today we discussed the star, the star of Bethlehem. What do we know about it? What do we believe about it? What are we obligated to believe and what might we possibly discover about that star?
Our guest is Jimmy Akin, senior apologist here at Catholic Answers and the …
