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
15:35 – How can I introduce the faith to people who have no previous experience or reference to it?
21:08 – What’s the best way that I can continue to catechize my children? I’m taking them to church but they don’t really participate and they’re bored.
29:28 – A logical exercise for parents who feel guilty about their children leaving the faith.
33:44 – My daughter married a man with two kids and they’ve had two more. I want to tell her she should focus on the two kids she’s had and let the father discipline the older ones. Is that the right thing to say?
36:47 – In the business world “systems thinking” is when we go beyond the “what” and try to look at the “why.” It ties in beautifully with what Dr. Ray is saying.
52:12 – I was kicked out of my parents’ house because they didn’t want to talk to me about the faith. How can I reconcile with them?
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Questions Covered:
01:28 – Was St. Thomas Aquinas excommunicated? Why?
14:37 – What is your opinion on the ethical framework of God asking Abraham to sacrifice his son?
24:21 – I heard Jimmy say it is better to exist even if you end up in Hell. How can I compare this to Jesus saying, “The one who betrays me it was better for him not to be born”?
34:42 – What is your opinion on Dousing?
44:35 – Who did Jacob wrestle within the Old Testament?
51:47 – How do blessings work with lay people versus priest?
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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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