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:
03:35 – What advice would you give for starting a college apologetics club?
09:22 – Is there Mass in Heaven?
15:03 – What is your defense on John Henry Newman’s idea of doctrinal development?
24:45 – How can I refute once saved always saved and perseverance of the saints with scripture?
34:16 – How did Thomas receive the gift of the Holy Spirit since he was absent in John 20?
41:08 – In the 3rd letter of John, I have read different translations with Church or church. Would the lower-case c translation indicate John talking about a local church not the universal?
46:30 – Is snowflake adoption ethical?
51:59 – Does the long history of sexual abuse in the church make the church an apostate?
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Questions Covered:
03:02 – Why do Catholics have Jesus on the cross instead of just a cross. Also, are tattoos immoral?
16:01 – My wife and I were married in a Lutheran church. She is Catholic. She was told by her priest that she is not allowed to take the sacraments. Is this true?
28:45 – Often I hear complicated ideas when explaining Catholic doctrines. I find it hard to follow, and imagine others do as well. Do you have to understand these things to be Catholic?
44:15 – I’m considering Catholicism. I’m struggling with some Marian doctrines. Is it enough for me to become Catholic to assent to the Church’s doctrines, while not really being sure if I believe in them?
47:40 – What is the Catholic view on dispensationalism?
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Questions Covered:
03:48 – Could we employ some of your arguments against the Evil God Challenge against atheistic naturalism?
08:37 – I like the argument against sola scriptura that scripture doesn’t say everything has to be in scripture. But Protestants respond that Old Testament Jews didn’t have a magisterium, yet they still knew, more or less, what books were canon. If Old Testament Jews were fine with that, shouldn’t we be too? How do we respond to that.
17:17 – Are those who go to Hell likely to eventually go mad from all their suffering?
21:08 – In light of the recent story of the man declared brain dead from whom they were harvesting organs, but then the man showed signs of life: how should Catholics consider organ donation?
29:33 – Convince us that abortions are evil without using religion.
32:20 – Why is the purpose of the uterus disanalogy in the violinist argument successful in refuting it?
43:24 – Is 1 Cor 15:29 a good proof for purgatory?
50:18 – How do we answer the ethical dilemma: a robber comes to your house and makes you choose a family member for him to kill, or else he will kill your whole family.
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Questions covered:
14:42 – Some Protestants are telling me there was no centralized authority in the early church and the bishops of Rome weren’t popes. How would you answer that?
22:32 – What are the other possible interpretations of Isaiah 53?
25:14 – Is it licit to practice cranialsacral therapy?
32:21 – How does the Catholic Church justify what it did in the Inquisition?
44:23 – I think what goes on in my neighborhood during Halloween is demonic. They’re glorifying death.
50:49 – Can you tell me more about the Black Mass happening in Atlanta on Friday? What’s going on there and what should we do?
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Questions covered:
06:05 – Is the story of the rich young man the same story in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, or is it something that happened frequently enough that they all reported similar but distinct interactions?
15:29 – Exodus says half of the ten plagues didn’t impact Israel, but doesn’t say that about the others. Did they impact Israel, and if so, why?
21:15 – The physical human body is sexed male and female. Is the human soul also sexed masculine and feminine?
34:38 – Can you help me understand the Church’s new teaching on the death penalty?
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