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
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:
02:55 – If a Catholic couple is struggling with infertility, can the man provide a sperm sample to a fertility specialist in a moral way?
04:47 – As Catholics, do we believe that Moses and Elijah are going to return before the final Judgement?
11:48 – Regarding the spread of Christianity in history, why did Catholicism not spread in the mid-East as it did in other parts of the world?
14:08 – A lot of people claim that reality has a secular liberal bias. How would an apologist combat this?
19:59 – Judges 11:35-26 talks about a human sacrifice. Did this really take place?
28:48 – What historical proof is there of Peter being the first Pope?
35:35 – What is papal infallibility? How exactly is it defined?
43:55 – In the book “Antiquities of the Jews” by Flavius Josephus he refers to James as the brother of Jesus. Would this mean brother or could it mean “cousin” as well?
48:37 – Are Christians allowed to listen to metal music and, if so, what kind?
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Karlo Broussard tackles questions about life after death, particularly heaven and the saints.
Questions Covered:
04:20 – Will it bother you in heaven if your family members are in hell? Will you still feel sorrow for their absence from heaven?
13:48 – How can there be room for everyone in heaven?
20:27 – Can near-death experiences when people claim to see those in heaven be true if they haven’t received their judgment or have gone to heaven?
28:55 – Will we maintain the same bonds in heaven with our loved ones?
34:57 – Will heaven and earth come together after the Last Judgement and end times?
39:43 – Is it true that someone could do good their whole life, commit a mortal sin before they die, and go to hell? How is that right?
46:30 – Why do you pray to the saints? Isn’t this sinful?
51:58 – How do we know anything about levels of heaven? Is there anything in Scripture to support this?
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Karlo Broussard tackles questions about life after death, particularly heaven and the saints.
Questions Covered:
13:55 – What is the difference between particular judgement and final judgment?
20:44 – Isaiah talks about heaven being a place where the lion lays down with the lamb. Does this mean my seeing eye dogs might be with me in heaven?
32:03 – What specifically happens to our guardian angel after we die? Do they go to heaven with us or are they assigned another person?
36:50 – Will we see our family members in heaven?
44:50 – How could a good God allow hell? How is an eternity of hell fair when we live less than a hundred years on earth?
50:51 – What is the order of people in heaven? What does it mean to be “higher” in heaven?
Resources Mentioned:
Spe Salvi
magiscenter.com
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Yes, the earliest Christians celebrated the Mass, and they did so in ways that are impressively similar to today’s Mass. In fact, the Church lived as a liturgical community from the very moment of its birth.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host. We’ve been having some conversations in recent weeks with Tim Staples, Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, about the early church and some of the things that are said about the early church. And trying to dig into what’s true about the life of the …
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:
02:50 – Is heaven in the realm of time?
12:27 – How many apocryphal books are there?
17:09 – What does Galatians 3:24 mean?
19:11 – What was the Church’s stance on liberalism pre and post-Vatican II?
39:55 – Is it possible that God is more than three persons, but that he has only revealed three?
47:30 – Was the wine alcoholic at the Wedding at Cana and the Last Supper?
50:16 – When the Protestants removed the 7 books from Scripture, it left them with 66 books. I explain that 7 and 3 have special value in Scripture, while 6 does not, so 66 could not be the total number of books in the Bible. Am I off base here?
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