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:
07:35 – What is Marian Consecration and how do I go about doing it?
14:40 – How do I explain the sign of the cross to a 4-year-old from a different faith background?
20:19 – Considering the Church calls abortion evil, why hasn’t the Church sanctioned Catholic politicians who are vocally pro-abortion?
31:52 – Where do Catholics get the idea of honoring Mary in the rosary?
41:19 – Why is it that it takes ordained ministry to celebrate most sacraments but not marriage and baptism?
45:17 – Why is it that we are seeing a spike in celebrity conversions?
51:58 – Could you clarify what you mean by visible Church and invisible Church in your book Pope Peter?
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Questions covered:
02:17 – It seems like a lot of non-Catholic religions in which people speak in tongues. Why don’t Catholics do that? And what is the Catholic position on speaking in tongues?
11:49 – What must one do to be saved?
16:49 – What are the rewards that we can obtain in heaven?
19:29 – Why are we still split with the Orthodox over the filioque when Greek is no longer the dominant language in the Church?
24:53 – Can you help me understand the Church’s current teaching on the death penalty in relation to its older teachings? It seems like it’s done a complete 180, not a development.
44:32 – If someone knowingly votes for a person who supports abortion and then dies before confessing, does he go to hell?
49:59 – Why is an infertile person allowed to be married but an impotent person is not?
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Questions covered
09:19 – Why doesn’t the New Testament refer to priests with the Greek word hiereus?
18:06 – Why are so many people fascinated by exorcisms, especially in horror movies?
18:06 – It seems like there are so many things you have to do and rules to follow in Catholicism.
41:01 – if everything happens according to god’s will/plan, which is what it says in the bible, then people have no freewill.
46:49 – Why do Catholics revere relics?
49:30 – In Luke, the word kecharitomene is rendered “full of grace” and I always thought Luke made up that word. Someone told me the same word in the masculine is used in Sirach and it’s translated “gracious.” Why is it translated differently?
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Questions Covered:
01:36 – I’m a Baptist. If I attend a Catholic service why can’t I receive communion?
17:16 – How do we harmonize intercession of the saints and purgatory?
41:10 – It’s hard for me to get over the idea of the Eucharist being the body and blood of Jesus as a nondenominational Christian, because I feel like I would deify the wafer. How can I get over this hurdle?
51:41 – I was told that some of the saints may be pagan gods and goddesses like St. Brigid. Is this true?
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Questions Covered:
08:03 – My wife and I aren’t confirmed yet. Does practicing do anything yet since we’re not fully initiated into the Church?
25:25 – I’m Jewish. What is the Catholic interpretation of Psalm 110?
36:47 – Why can’t we have premarital intercourse?
50:29 – Why does the show prompt there’s a non-optional requirement to be Catholic? Why does the Church think that it bears any weight in an individual’s relationship with God?
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