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:
02:20 – In Numbers 16, it says people were sent to Sheol. Were they killed or sent to Sheol?
05:40 – What should Christians do if empirical science rules against us in every instance?
13:30 – Is Matthew 19:14 not about limbo or the state of the unbaptized but instead about not teaching children about Jesus?
21:35 – Why in Genesis are some of the things that God created good and others not?
28:45 – Why is Eve’s sin called the sin of Adam?
36:30 – How are suffering and sacrifice different in the Catholic Church than in the secular world?
44:01 – Why is Jesus called the King of the Jews if Jewish people don’t believe in him? To Enya? The Bible is a Cath Book?
47:30 – How do the saints hear our prayers?
50:45 – It is okay for Catholics to use mindfulness for anxiety and depression?
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Questions Covered:
01:36 – What is the point of praying the Hail Mary prayer when you can pray the Jesus prayer?
11:12 – How do Catholics understand hell? I don’t ever hear about it in my church.
15:40 – What is the substantiation for Catholic sacred tradition and theology?
21:44 – Can the pope change Catholic doctrine?
34:22 – How can Catholics believe in purgatory?
45:43 – Are St. Paul’s letters (or other letters) infallible? How can we know?
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Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel and the Church
Meeting the Protestant Challenge: How to Answer 50 Biblical Objections to Catholic Beliefs
Why God Still Matters
The Bible Blueprint for the Priesthood
The Bible Blueprint for the Mass
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Questions Covered:
11:43 – How can the Church accept annulments when Christ said divorce was wrong?
20:28 – How can the Church teach that NFP is acceptable as a contraceptive?
31:10 – How can the Church allow indulgences? Isn’t that made up and corrupt?
35:50 – How can I explain the infallibility of the papacy?
44:45 – Didn’t Jesus pay our debt? How could we still have something to “pay”?
Want more from Karlo Broussard?
Prepare the Way: Overcoming Obstacles to God, the Gospel and the Church
Meeting the Protestant Challenge: How to Answer 50 Biblical Objections to Catholic Beliefs
Why God Still Matters
The Bible Blueprint for the Priesthood
The Bible Blueprint for the Mass
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Best known for trying to catch Jesus in logical traps, the Sadducees had some strange beliefs for first century Jews. Why do they seem so tricky in their dealings with Jesus? And what can his interactions with them teach an apologist?
Who is this mysterious group who challenges Jesus on the resurrection, but believes in God? We’ll tackle the Sadducees next with Jimmy Aiken. Hello, and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we’re in the midst of three conversations with Jimmy Akin on some of the movements in the Jewish world of Jesus’s time. …
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:
06:45 – Is baptism by desire valid in the Church’s eyes?
13:25 – A priest told me that I cannot be absolved for my sins. What can I do?
20:26 – How does Lucifer tie into the book of Enoch?
28:35 – What is required in order to become a saint of the Church?
35:10 – Who was Annas. the high priest?
39:47 – Does getting Last Rites guarantee that you’ll go straight to heaven?
44:23 – How does the Magisterium view Catholics praying with non-Catholics?
47:44 – There are people saying that the Novus Ordo is not valid and that all people who attend it are liberals. Who are these people and why do they say this? Is this a new schismatic movement?
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Want more from Tim Staples?
Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines
Jimmy Swaggart Made Me Catholic
Catholic Answers to Common Objections
The Sword of the Spirit: Defending Six Central Catholic Teachings
Living Bread (CD)
Last Call: The Catholic Teaching on Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell
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