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:
06:08 – How do I defend infant baptism?
13:28 – I’ve heard the Church has banned and burned books. Is this true? What is the Lesser Key of Solomon?
18:49 – What are your thoughts on options for fathers getting to veto abortions of their own children?
28:30 – According to science, a fetus is not alive till it gets the heartbeat. Which means comparing it to an alive grown human is wrong.
30:48 – Why does God tolerate our free will if he knows we pick things that are not good for us?
36:18 – Is it Simony to purchase a blessed item?
41:40 – Can Catholics be universalists?
47:34 – My friend asked, how could Mary hear our prayers if she is in heaven?
51:32 – How do I defend the faith against the Orthodox who claim we are inconsistent especially the filioque but yet doesn’t require eastern Catholics to say it?
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Questions Covered:
00:30 – What spiritual advice do you have for someone who is discerning Catholicism?
12:49 – Is it disobedient or sinful for us to receive communion kneeling if we’ve been requested to receive standing?
18:06 – If I’m given a heavy penance and can’t complete it before the next mass, can I receive communion?
23:26 – Is my marriage valid since I wasn’t married in the Catholic Church?
29:33 – How do I work in a family who is not Catholic? How do I celebrate advent with them?
36:17 – Was Jesus’ body always present before coming to earth?
46:01 – If our desire to sin evaporates when we are in the presence of God, then why does purgatory exist?
53:14 – What is the chronological order of, the presentation of Jesus, visit of the Magi, flight to Egypt and the massacre of the innocent?
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Questions Covered:
05:17 – How could Adam and Eve choose to sin if their nature did not include concupiscence?
15:26 – How do we determine whether the early Church was Catholic or Orthodox?
21:49 – How do you know when you are in a Calvinistic church?
32:49 – Can you go to heaven without the sacraments? Or if you die in the process of becoming Catholic.
35:30 – How do we properly deal with not feeling that our prayers have been heard?
47:35 – If good Mariology leads to good Christology where does the bodily assumption fit in?
52:53 – What spiritual advice do you have for someone who is discerning Catholicism?
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Questions Covered:
1:00 – Why are the people attending the Latin Mass starting to lean towards denying the pope and those in the Novus Ordo leaning towards affirming him?
22:27 – Who writes the footnotes in the bible? Is it the Magisterium?
32:28 – In John 3:16 the Protestant translation says, ‘should not perish’ but in the Catholic version it says, ‘might not perish.’ Which is more correct?
37:05 – My best friend and I both left the Church and now I’m making my way back. How do I approach her especially on topics like salvation when she doesn’t seem to care?
48:09 – I work for a company that sells Plan B and occult items. I have no say in the selling of these items. Should I look for another job?
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Questions Covered:
03:23 – Why is Orthodox communion valid?
11:59 – I’m Protestant. How do you process that God calls people to practice as ministers in protestant church?
34:02 – Why isn’t Mt 27:52-53 more attested in history?
46:12 – where do you think, presumably, are we in the eschatology timeline?
52:24 – Psalm 72 seems to reference that it was the last Psalm of David. Is it a Psalm written by Solomon to David or from David to Jesus?
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