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
Fr. Hugh Barbour and Catholic Answers’ president, Christopher Check, acknowledge the struggles that people are experiencing during this challenging time of coronavirus lockdown. They address how we, as Catholics Christians, can best react and deal with the loneliness, anger, sadness, and other feelings that such a crisis has generated.
Christopher Check:
Welcome to Catholic Answers Focus. My name is Christopher Check. I am president of Catholic Answers, sitting in for your usual host, Cy Kellett. Catholic Answers Focus is our podcast here at Catholic Answers, where we don’t take c…
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:
13:17 – Aquinas asserts that an infinite series can not exist, that there must be a first cause. In math, there can be infinite series. Does this disprove Aquinas’ theory?
21:26 – How were moral truths created? Atheists say that our brains and nature evolve our nervous systems to create moral truths.
28:52 – Does Thomas Aquinas differ from the Catholic view on predestination?
42:45 – Why don’t debaters use Revelation 5:13 as evidence for Mary being able to hear multiple prayers?
47:50 – Mother Teresa encouraged people to pray, “Mary, Mother of Jesus, take away all sin from my life.” My Protestant mother wants to know, how can Catholics pray this when it is Jesus who takes away sin?
52:07 – I am a member of the Church of Christ, but I’m married to a Catholic. She has told me that the communion at the Church of Christ doesn’t mean anything, that the Eucharist in the Catholic Church is the real thing. How can I better understand this and how can we talk about this? How is my communion different from the Eucharist?
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Rose Sweet helps Catholics to navigate spousal separation and to understand the Church’s teaching on marriage.
Questions Covered:
16:52 – I have a son who is getting ready to file for divorce. He is married to an abusive woman who is on drugs and there are 3 kids involved. How will the Church view this?
21:55 – Is Rose Sweet available for private advice?
23:23 – I was previously in the marine corps and was married, but things didn’t work out. I wasn’t religious at that time. Will it ever be possible for me to have a wife again?
30:50 – When is it okay to realize that divorce is the right answer? My dad was sexually abusing my mom and me and she finally left him and got a divorce once it affected me.
34:39 – I have been separated from my wife for 8 years. I don’t think either of us intends on getting married to anyone else and we may get back together someday. She just filed for divorce. Will we still be married in the eyes of the Church if we divorce?
42:38 – My husband and I are separated. I have my stuff in the car because I just left him. We still love each other, but we’ve had so many complications. What can I do? I am not a Catholic.
46:45 – What is a justification for getting an annulment? My wife already married someone else.
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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:
01:45 – How do we apply the teachings of the Bible to our lives, practically? I am not Catholic, but I want to be living my faith in a real way each day.
13:19 – There’s a strange rumor going around that if Israel’s population were to become at least 50% Catholic, the second coming would be near. Is there any truth in this?
17:06 – Is it possible that there was human death before the fall? Is this compatible with Catholic teaching?
22:47 – How do we know that Mary was lifted into heaven at the Assumption?
29:14 – How are all people made equally by God when some people are made with mental or physical disabilities?
34:10 – How is true that Mary could be conceived without original sin?
40:30 – How did the people’s feelings toward Jesus change so quickly, from Palm Sunday to the Crucifixion?
46:20 – Are we reducing Christ’s suffering by praying about the Passion?
49:45 – What is the process of the particular and general judgements after you die?
52:04 – What is the Illumination of Conscience? Is this a real thing that will take place?
Resources Mentioned:
JimmyAkin.Com
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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:
03:00 – Since we have unconsecrated hosts at our house, can we bring them in front of the live Mass to consecrate them?
05:18 – How do you know that a valid ecumenical council is one that is recognized by the pope? Couldn’t it be one that was recognized by the five ecumenical patriarchs?
08:29 – What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
23:42 – What is meant by the term “Godhead”?
29:39 – How can you find someone to help with exorcism and possession when you need help? I have tried to seek out help in the Church and never found help.
34:00 – Do you have an opinion on the 3 days of darkness?
40:15 – Can you help me to understand Luke 11:27-28?
43:34 – If a penitent intends to but is not able to say all their mortal sins because the priest must leave and ends the confession, is the penitent absolved of their sins?
46:00 – When we pray, are we supposed to ask for things or just pray for God’s will to be done? Does our prayer change God’s mind?
49:50 – How can I explain the infallibility of Tradition to Protestant family members?
Resources Mentioned:
JimmyAkin.Com
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