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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!
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Most Recent Episodes
Today is for non-Catholics to ask any question about the Catholic faith!
Questions Covered:
04:12 – I enjoy the Catholic faith until about the Middle Ages. How do you reconcile with those bad times?
13:08 – Aren’t all presbyters and bishops the same?
19:31 – I read Behold Your Mother and love it. My question is, is Eve symbolic or real? If she is symbolic, how can Mary, who is very real, be the New Eve?
28:30 – I have been receiving the Eucharist at Mass for 30 years but am a baptized Protestant. I never went through RCIA or officially became a part of the Catholic Church. Am I going to go to hell for this?
34:02 – How can Catholics believe in justification by faith and works? It seems like Catholics are less forgiving.
41:22 – If the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one person, how do you reconcile that with John 17:3?
47:56 – Can you clarify why Catholics confess their sins to a bishop when that is God’s job to forgive?
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Today is for non-Catholics to ask any question about the Catholic faith!
Questions Covered:
06:22 – I was baptized a Lutheran but want to become Catholic. Will I receive all the sacraments at Easter? Can I have the sacraments at another time of the year?
14:41 – Out of the 10 plagues, which was the most effective?
16:56 – Do Catholics believe that all animals go to heaven?
28:37 – Why is it that the Catholics place so much focus on the Virgin Mary?
36:45 – How can I better understand Romans 3 and 4? Some use these as an argument against justification. Also, If the Catholic Church is seeking unity, then why would it deny the Eucharist to non-Catholic Christians?
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Questions Covered:
03:09 – How did the Church Fathers know when to take Scripture literally and when to take it figuratively?
07:12 – Does the name “deuterocanon” mean that those books are somehow less inspired than the rest of Scripture?
11:55 – If someone gets civilly divorced and has no children, can he get an annulment and become a priest?
17:00 – Does a divorced and remarried person (without annulment) automatically go to hell if they’re still remarried when they die?
22:05 – Why do people have such big problems with Vatican II?
34:33 – Since Hebrews says “The greater blesses the lesser,” how do we understand the Psalms when they say “Bless the Lord, O my soul”?
40:08 – How do we know that the Roman Catholic Church is correct instead of the Orthodox Church?
46:03 – How do I respond to someone who says that it doesn’t matter what religion we belong to as long as we all believe in the same God?
50:23 – How can I answer the charge that the Bible says there’s no Trinity?
Resources Mentioned:
The Twentieth-Century Apologetical Rollercoaster by Jim Blackburn
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Questions Covered:
04:03 – How can I reply to the charge that the passage in John 10, “My sheep hear my voice…no one shall snatch them from my hand,” proves “Once saved, always saved?”
07:15 – When Jesus responds to the question “who is my neighbor” with the parable of the Good Samaritan, he seems to be saying that only one person is our neighbor; yet the Catechism says the whole world is our neighbor. How do I reconcile these?
15:21 – The Council of Trent seems to change a teaching from the Council of Constance. How and why could it do that?
20:17 – If a Pope were to commit formal heresy, would he cease to be Pope?
24:39 – What are your thoughts on the Divine Mercy Chaplet? Do any of the private revelations seem a bit far-fetched?
33:32 – Can I attend my Bible study if I’m not in a state of grace?
35:40 I saw a YouTube video that said “Pope Francis declares the devil to be God.”
44:55 – What is the Church’s stance on Islam?
48:23 – Numbers 5 seems to sanction an abortive procedure for Israel. So why can’t we have our own separate sanctions on abortion in America?
Resources mentioned:
Teaching with Authority by Jimmy Akin
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The man who wrote the book Persuasive Pro-Life gives us a primer on how to share arguments against abortion. Use these effective techniques to move yourself and others closer to the truth about tiny, little, unborn people.
Pro-life boot camp with Trent Horn right now.
Cy: Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and in studio with me today, our good friend Trent Horn, author of many things, including a book called Persuasive Pro-life. We thought with Trent, we’d take this opportunity to do a little pro-life boot camp, get the basics about how …
