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:
03:41 – What happens to tribes that are not exposed to Christianity?
18:36 – I’m a sponsor for a friend in RCIA. He has been donating to a Shriners hospital in honor of his friend. Is this a problem for him as he discerns the faith?
28:46 – What mechanism do you have to rationalize today being right compared to the Church being wrong in the past on topics like Geocentrism?
36:39 – Why does Mark’s gospel not mention Mary’s presence at the crucifixion?
45:04 – Why does Jesus have to announce our sins in the final judgment? Does purgatory exist after the final judgment?
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Questions Covered:
06:15 – Is it a good idea to use Acts 9:40 as proof for intercession with the saints?
13:40 – What’s the difference between, Redemption, salvation and justification?
25:14 – What is the state of a person commits a mortal sin, repents, dies but never had a chance to make it to confession?
32:11 – How do respond to the claim that since the Rothchilds family donated to the Vatican they have control over it?
35:59 – Why did they put baptism ahead of the wedding feast in the luminous mysteries?
51:15 – What does it mean to be out of God’s grace and that we can’t merit anything for ourselves?
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Questions Covered:
01:58 – Did Job commit blasphemy?
05:09 – How much do the errors of people copying the bible affect the inerrancy of scripture?
11:55 – John 6 What’s the proof that what he is saying is not just symbolic?
21:07 – Rev refers to the mark of the beast. Is there a correlation to the mark of the beast and the upcoming digital dollar? Are we living in the age described in Revelation?
36:54 – What is the Church’s position on God writing the law on the hearts of man? Was that just exclusive to the Old Testament?
42:51 – Was creation a literal 6 days?
46:41 – When did God reveal his name to mankind?
53:31 – How did Mary know he could perform a miracle at the wedding at Cana if this was his first miracle?
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Questions Covered:
04:01 – Did Jesus write five books that were not included in the canon?
08:50 – How do we make sense of 2 Sam 21? David avenging the Gibeonites.
15:53 – How do we interpret Matthew 5:20?
24:12 – In 1 Thessalonians 5:23 Paul mentions body, soul and spirit. What’s the difference between body, soul and spirit? Is one more important than the others?
30:55 – The bible says believe and be baptized. Is the intention of baptism important to the validity of the baptism? Does the pastor baptizing have to intend salvation?
35:35 – Is Judas betraying Christ correlated to receiving Jesus in grave sin?
41:12 – Is the story of the Witch of Endor in 1 Sam evidence that those in the afterlife can hear us, leading to evidence for the intercession of the saints?
49:37 – It’s really weird that Mary Magdalene washed Jesus’ feet with hair. Would it have been considered weird back then too?
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Questions Covered:
02:04 – Does priestly celibacy fall into the category of binding traditions that are not necessary?
08:24 – Where in the bible does it say we can pray to the saints in heaven?
15:40 – Did God create us to be sinful in light of Paul’s struggle with “the flesh”?
20:11 – I wasn’t raised religious and am looking into Catholicism. How do I reconcile my differences with the teachings of the pope if I want to become Catholic?
28:36 – What will be the outcome of the Synod on Synodality?
30:53 – How do I respond to my friends who believe 1 Peter 3:21 refers to Baptism of the spirit and not Baptism by water?
34:45 – Why can’t people break the law of physics when demons can?
41:20 – Why do some Catholic Universities have same-sex student unions or groups?
45:10 – Can you clarify the reference to Mary’s other children?
48:06 – Is the Sacrament of Baptism impacted if the parents are not Catholic, but influenced by extended Catholic family?
51:08 – Does Romans 4 teach that we are guaranteed Salvation?
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