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
Question Covered:
06:49 – Can you explain the concept of a new Heaven and a new Earth?
15:19 – How can I help my Christian Grandmother’s salvation without hurting her feelings?
21:19 – Can you explain what Paul meant by handing a sinner’s flesh to Satan so his soul can be saved in 1 Cor 5:5?
30:50 – Can you explain why temporal sinfulness can merit eternal punishment?
43:47 – How does Purgatory work and how can we get out?
47:19 – My priest wrote that the worst pain you can have is in purgatory, where in the bible might this be?
51:17 – Does Mark 14:7 excuse us from giving to the poor?
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Questions Covered:
06:29 – Can a believer who is not Baptized in the Catholic church go to Heaven?
13:51 – What was the first recorded miracle with a relic?
16:09 – When did people stop believing in Purgatory?
22:28 – What is the scriptural basis for purgatory?
32:46 – How can we explain ghosts or spirits on Earth if there are only three paths after death?
36:30 – My son died as a teen, but I didn’t Baptize him. Can he be saved since it was my choice?
43:48 – Why might a courtroom scenario be used to describe our final judgment?
50:16 – Is it true that only Jesus and Mary are in heaven?
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Questions Covered:
02:10 – How can I respond to claims that Matthew 4 and Jesus’s temptations prove Sola Scriptura?
06:31 – Can you explain the new and the old wine skin parable?
12:53 – When is the completion of the Eucharist on the Cross?
16:17 – What is a good response for any problematic study notes in the New American Bible?
22:25 – Was there any time in the Bible where the Eucharist looked like the Mass today or was it a communal dinner?
30:37 – Does Act 8:14-17 disapprove baptism by Jesus’s name only?
39:48 – When Matthais became an apostle there were 13 now, how does this impact the 12 seats?
44:36 – Is the italicized text in the Bible the word of God?
48:17 – Why don’t Catholics go by the Bible exactly?
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Questions Covered:
06:56 – Did the apostles receive the same Baptism of Jesus based on Act 19: 3-4 and Matthew 28:19?
15:15 – Does scripture rule out God being incarnated previously in another world?
16:58 – Based on the different descriptions in Isaiah, Daniel, and John are there quantifiable things in heaven?
22:22 – Was John 6 taken literally by those following Jesus?
31:56 – Why does Jesus take Peter, James, and John specifically in Mark 5, 6, and 14?
35:09 – Are there any recorded instances of people failing to receive communion properly as described in1 Corinthians 11:30?
38:51 – In Isaiah 11:2, why is piety missing from the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
41:59 – Did the New Testament authors realize their writing was divinely inspired?
51:14 – How do we know Peter was given greater authority than the other apostle?
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