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
Jimmy Akin, senior apologist at Catholic Answers, selects from weird and wacky questions submitted via the internet and tackles them head-on in this episode of “Weird Questions.” If you have a mysterious, fantastic, or otherworldly query, please email it to radio@catholic.com.
Questions Covered:
03:11 -I was watching a sitcom on one of the major networks. In this episode, a teenage character was trying to win over a girl by pretending to be as religious as she was. The female character had decided to be baptized in a Baptist church and the young man joined her hoping that the gesture would ga…
Dr. Ray Guarendi shares with Cy his reflections on the peace of the Holy Family, as well as his best tips for maintaining peace in the modern world.
Questions Covered:
29:30 – My daughter has stage 4 colon cancer. My daughter acts very angry toward me when I offer my sympathies but seems to accept sympathy with grace from others who offer it. How can I handle this?
33:39 – How can I help the anger that I have toward my wife for having an affair?
42:48 – How do you bring family together when they don’t accept what you offer to them?
46:22 – How would a person handle 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:
05:22 – In the early Church, we hear that there was public confession. How were these people absolved? How do we know this?
10:16 – My mother was going to be accepted into the Church by the profession of faith but was interrupted by surgery. Does she have to wait a whole year to join now?
15:22 – Why do Catholics think that Matthew 16:18 is support …
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:
07:00 – Are cancer or hurricanes evil things? Didn’t God create the natural world, so these things are good?
15:30 – I know people who are having premarital sex. Are these people going to go to hell?
22:14 – My daughter came out as gay. Is there hope for her salvation?
29:03 – What is the Dominican Mass like in comparison to the Roman rite?
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We focus on pastoral concerns but welcome any question callers would like to ask a Catholic priest as we are joined by the Catholic Answers chaplain, Norbertine Father Hugh Barbour.
Questions Covered:
08:10 – I will be a new convert this year and am trying to live a Catholic life in the meantime. What are the requirements for living a good Catholic life?
15:00 – What are the seven deadly sins? How can I know if a sin is mortal or not?
21:08 – Does the Catholic Church ever need someone who is a lawyer and a priest?
28:36 – Can only Catholics go to heaven?
32:17 – …
