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
Embracing the salvation that God offers means striving to live a life of sainthood. How? Find out here, with Devin Rose.
Questions Covered:
14:29 – I live by myself and it’s hard for me to avoid temptations of the flesh. What advice can you give me?
19:45 – How do you make a perfect act of contrition if you can’t go to confession?
29:42 – How can anyone be a saint today if they don’t believe in healthcare for all?
36:02 – I really appreciate your answer about confession!
42:22 – What is the process to canonize people as saints?
Resources Mentioned:
Lionheart Catholic by Devin Rose
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Sometimes the post-Vatican II push for lay participation can become onerous. What is really needed to be fully Christian? Does everyone need to be a theologian, liturgist, and apologist?
Cy Kellett:
Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. And this time, an apologetic defense of a simple life of faith, I guess that’s how we could put it, a defense of a simple life of faith, or a life of simple faith, or just simply being faithful. We’ll go with any of those. Our guest, Father Hugh Barbour. Hello, Father.
Fr. Hugh:
Hello, hello.
Cy Kellett…
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:
19:05 – There are inconsistencies in the gospels. How can we understand this?
25:04 – When we go to confession and receive penance from our priest, can an indulgence do away with the penance?
33:37 – Why does the Catholic Church consider the apocryphal books to be canonical?
41:29 – What’s the meaning of Easter?
45:12 – Did Satan ever sit on the throne of God?
47:50 – Are Old Testament people considered saints?
49:55 – Did Lucifer have the beatific vision before he was kicked out of Heaven?
52:40 – Why is baptism necessary for salvation?
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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:
04:33 – Are Micah 3:3, Psalm 27:2, and Isaiah 49:26 symbolic?
08:13 – Why doesn’t the Church fund more scientific investigations of miracles in the Church so that more atheists would come to believe in God?
21:38 – Are the fruits of intercessory prayer spiritually productive?
29:40 – Was Judas present at the Last Supper and if so, did he receive the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the Eucharist in a state of mortal sin?
32:48 – In Mark 6, when Jesus says whoever is not for me is against me, does this mean that all Christians are of equal knowledge?
41:00 – What does the Catholic Church believe about Islam?
50:22 – How can I understand the seemingly wrath-filled God of the Old Testament and the merciful Jesus of the New Testament?
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Are you at a loss for defending a part of the Catholic faith? Trent Horn is here to help.
Questions Covered:
04:19 – Why do we never hear in the Church about how we can lose our salvation?
15:30 – Why is the story of Lazarus being raised from the dead only in the gospel of John? Also, is Gehenna hell?
20:47 – How can I explain to my anti-Catholic friend how Catholics obtain salvation even though we don’t go through a dramatic “saving” like in Christian churches?
28:20 – How can I explain to a friend that Jesus transformed and built up a Church, rather than just destroying the Jewish faith?
31:00 – I keep getting chainmail messages on my phone. Are these messages credible or can I disregard them?
37:21 – How do we know that Mary was assumed into heaven?
43:05 – Where in the Bible is the papacy?
48:32 – How can I explain why Christ descended to the dead to a Protestant?
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