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
What is the proper role of the Church in the debate over marriage? Is sacramental marriage different than natural marriage? And what is the role of governments in this debate: to determine what marriage is or to discover and protect what marriage is?
Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And this is the second part of a conversation we’re having with Father Sebastian Walshe, a Norbertine priest of the Abbey of St. Michael in the Diocese of Orange, California, about marriage, something that had always seemed, at least in our cultu…
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:
00:47 – What is the basis for the understanding that animals have souls that are not immortal?
14:02 – How did you go from breaking bread and passing it around to a single manufactured host?
22:47 – Is Genesis 40 a reference to purgatory?
28:46 – How do we defend the seal of Confession?
43:10 – In the Creeds, it says that Jesus desc…
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:
03:40 – What are your thoughts on the idols being removed from the Church at the Vatican? Do the ends justify the means in this case?
14:33 – Can a priest who is permanently mute still administer the Sacraments?
19:38 – When the innocent baby boys were murdered by Herod in his attempt to kill Jesus, was John the Baptist in danger of his life?
22…
Fr. Paul Check and Catholic Answers president, Christopher Check, discuss the meaning of God’s strength found in human weakness.
Questions Covered:
22:23 – How do we keep strong when we see so many people in the Church failing to follow Church teaching?
31:18 – I go through a lot of intense physical suffering and I have a family to raise. I am struggling to accept the suffering as a part of God’s plan. What can I do?
36:35 – I had an interesting conversation about the Crucifixion with some Jewish friends and this topic of strength in weakness came up.
44:50 –…
Jimmy Akin takes all questions pertaining to Scripture.
Questions Covered:
13:27 – In, Genesis 6:1-4, it seems like the first few verses seem to talk about other creatures having relations with humans and then God ends it. How can we understand this passage?
18:56 – Do Christians have to believe in the Old Testament or only the new?
29:59 – Who baptized the apostles? Does Scripture tell us?
34:07 – In the book of Luke 21, when Jesus says, “This generation will not pass away,” who is he referring to?
39:40 – A lot of the Bible seems to say astrology is bad, bu…
