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!
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Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
02:22 – I heard this as an argument against the body and soul being distinct and advocating strict materialism, i.e. it’s all in the brain: If we consider that memories, emotions, reasoning, consciousness, personality, etc. are distinct from the body in the senses of sight, sound, smell, touch, taste then what accounts for the changes that occur when drinking alcohol or taking drugs for a temporary effect, or the habitual use of psychedelic drugs which cause a permanent effect? A spiritual soul should be unaffected by the chemical changes in the brain, but since behavior is changed passively from ingestion in this and not by an active decision, doesn’t that prove materialism and disprove a spiritual soul?
13:26 – I have asked multiple priest and exorcists about “perfect possession “and have yet to have anyone give me an answer. I have read about this characterization of complete possession of a person by Fr. Malachi, Martin, as well as a few other exorcists, but no thorough definition or had any current exorcist or priest confirm that perfect possession is true and possible. Could you please expand on this? It seems in these crazy times perfect possession would explain a lot of what we see in the church at large and the world. Example, people openly and flagrantly in the state of mortal sin able to go to mass, receive the sacraments, come into contact with holy objects, receive communion etc., without any adverse reaction or manifestations towards these holy things. I am hopeful and humbly asking that you will answer with clarity about perfect possession
22:25 – If aliens made of anti-matter showed up and wanted to become Catholic, how would we accomplish this when the sacraments like baptism, ordination, and the Eucharist involve contact with matter?
31:30 – Which, if any, pagan gods are real?
34:46 – Did Neanderthals have immortal souls?
44:02 – Why does time seem to go by faster as we get older?
47:26 – How tiny can the Blessed Sacrament be? Many years ago I once asked a priest to clean the paten better because I noticed some particles of the consecrated bread remained on it. He answered that my problem was that I believe that Jesus is present on each of those tiny crumbs. I was very indignant. I like a verse in a Corpus Christi hymn that mentions that Jesus is really present on each of the small pieces of the consecrated bread broken. Now, recently I was reflecting on that indignant moment, saying to myself well, Jesus is present as tiny as a molecule, atoms, fundamental particles or strings, if they exists… until I said wait a minute… at some point on those levels one cannot distinguish bread. There is even a theory that says that all the electrons of the universe are the same thing. So I think the limit is not scientific but philosophical: Jesus is present up to the point when one can still perceive the attributes of bread. But then… maybe that priest was not that wrong at all… Mr. Akin, is Jesus present in the crumbs and if so to which level of smallness?
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Questions Covered:
02:30 – Why was the early church so divided on things like the dating of Easter?
12:29 – Did Mary have a choice to say no since God had already made her without sin?
17:45 – Did the events of Joshua actually happen? If not, what consequences would that have?
30:20 – How do I defend the Marian Assumption to protestants?
36:17 – How do I remember and internalize epiphanies that I have during prayer?
43:37 – How do last rites and apostolic pardon tie into redemptive suffering?
50:07 – When are teachings infallible? How do we figure when something is open for discussion, like female priests?
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Questions Covered:
06:08 – How do I defend infant baptism?
13:28 – I’ve heard the Church has banned and burned books. Is this true? What is the Lesser Key of Solomon?
18:49 – What are your thoughts on options for fathers getting to veto abortions of their own children?
28:30 – According to science, a fetus is not alive till it gets the heartbeat. Which means comparing it to an alive grown human is wrong.
30:48 – Why does God tolerate our free will if he knows we pick things that are not good for us?
36:18 – Is it Simony to purchase a blessed item?
41:40 – Can Catholics be universalists?
47:34 – My friend asked, how could Mary hear our prayers if she is in heaven?
51:32 – How do I defend the faith against the Orthodox who claim we are inconsistent especially the filioque but yet doesn’t require eastern Catholics to say it?
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Questions Covered:
00:30 – What spiritual advice do you have for someone who is discerning Catholicism?
12:49 – Is it disobedient or sinful for us to receive communion kneeling if we’ve been requested to receive standing?
18:06 – If I’m given a heavy penance and can’t complete it before the next mass, can I receive communion?
23:26 – Is my marriage valid since I wasn’t married in the Catholic Church?
29:33 – How do I work in a family who is not Catholic? How do I celebrate advent with them?
36:17 – Was Jesus’ body always present before coming to earth?
46:01 – If our desire to sin evaporates when we are in the presence of God, then why does purgatory exist?
53:14 – What is the chronological order of, the presentation of Jesus, visit of the Magi, flight to Egypt and the massacre of the innocent?
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Questions Covered:
05:17 – How could Adam and Eve choose to sin if their nature did not include concupiscence?
15:26 – How do we determine whether the early Church was Catholic or Orthodox?
21:49 – How do you know when you are in a Calvinistic church?
32:49 – Can you go to heaven without the sacraments? Or if you die in the process of becoming Catholic.
35:30 – How do we properly deal with not feeling that our prayers have been heard?
47:35 – If good Mariology leads to good Christology where does the bodily assumption fit in?
52:53 – What spiritual advice do you have for someone who is discerning Catholicism?
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