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
Questions Covered:
10:38 – Why was the Ascension “necessary”?
13:05 – Some saints were said to have levitated. Will our resurrected bodies have abilities like levitation, telekinesis, etc.?
17:12 – What if the pope breaks the seal of confession? Is he excommunicated? Who would he be excommunicated from?
21:00 – Is the war in Israel/Hamas prophesied in the Bible?
24:06 – I’d like to know the church’s view on the union dock worker strike? Is it ok to stop working in this situation/what roles does the union play in society?
32:22 – After the bodily resurrection, do we live in Heaven, the new Earth, or some combination of the two?
33:14 – Hi Jimmy. Why were there guards stationed at the tomb of Jesus if Jews only believed in Resurrection at the end the world? Doesn’t this imply that the Jewish authorities at least thought Jesus’s followers believed Jesus could rise from the dead? Do you think His disciples believed he would rise after 3 days?
37:35 – Jimmy Akin. Do you think that Jesus received any grace when he ate the Eucharist? I know He is the source of grace, but He was strengthened by an angel in the Agony in the garden. Curious to hear your thoughts on what is happening in both of these instances, on a metaphysical or ontological level.
42:40 – Are there instructions or limits to cursing? My intuition is that it is bad… but Jesus did curse a fig tree and said woe to whom betrayed Him. Was it OK because He’s God? Furthermore, would it be bad to curse a war and what would be the effect?
51:09 – When death occurs suddenly and the incident is faster than the brain can comprehend (as in the case of a submarine implosion) does God give a grace of awareness to the victim, or is it possible for the soul to be confused at the judgment seat of Christ?
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Questions Covered:
01:30 – Do we need to fast on Holy Days of Obligation?
08:01 – Is it okay for Catholics to read the Left Behind series if viewed as Fiction?
15:11 – Why haven’t problematic catholic influencers been excommunicated?
28:55 – Is my confession valid if I am not given a penance or asked for the Act of Contrition?
35:09 – Can you explain the existence of the Serpent before the fall in Genesis 3:12?
50:00 – I’ve heard that only people who bear the mark of the Antichrist will be able to buy things in the end times. Is this true?
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Questions Covered:
11:46 – What does the Catholic church view as the main problems with to Martin Luther’s Ninety-five theses?
18:01 – Why do Catholics Baptize infants?
29:18 – Is it a permissible view Genesis 18 as a manifestation of the Trinity?
34:25 – I found $600 today, what should I do?
42:00 – What is the Catholic view of organ donation specifically when it comes to brain death?
48:30 – Why is it assumed that Mary died before she was assumed?
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Questions Covered:
03:27 – How can I get across to my confirmation students the importance of going to confession?
11:53 – How did the Magi know that the star of Bethlehem was leading them to the king of the Jews?
16:21 – Does Joe still hate cheesecake or have you repented of that sin? And is Cy going to release a full version of St. Irenaeus and the Goblet of Fire?
22:26 – I heard Catholics say that Scripture has a kind of primacy over Tradition. But that seems to contradict what I’ve read in the Catechism and Dei Verbum. Can you explain?
31:19 – The shroud of turin is one cloth, but one of the Gospels clearly says there’s a separate cloth for his head. Is that a problem?
34:33 – What is the Catholic position on embryos? Are they alive or just tissue?
43:44 – Can you help me explain the role of Mary in salvation history?
48:39 – How can we know God, and in what way is a person able to know God?
52:05 – How can be there different levels of approach to God in heaven? I’m uncomfortable with that idea.
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Questions covered:
05:28 – How do we reconcile parts of both scripture and tradition that seem pessimistic about many being saved with other parts that are more optimistic?
14:48 – Does infallibility produce an infinite regress?
20:48 – How would Joe’s argument against the Protestant view of scripture handle views of perspicuity that are more limited?
29:01 – How do we know that Matthew wrote Matthew and John wrote John and Revelation? We don’t have any other writings to prove that from.
36:01 – What does CCC 841 mean when it says we and Muslims together adore the one God?
47:38 – How do Isaiah 53 and Galatians 3:13 fit into the Catholic view of atonement as opposed to penal substitutionary atonement?
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