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:
24:16 – What’s the best way to defend the Church Fathers when they’re accused of being anti-Semetic?
30:00 – There is no reason to believe in the Marian dogmas.
34:27 – St. Anselm’s writings on universal salvation brought me back to the Church. Are those writings in line with the Church?
46:29 – What are your thoughts on challenges to the authenticity of the letters of St. Ignatius of Antioch?
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Questions Covered:
05:19 – I want to become Catholic but still live at home and my parents are opposed to this decision. What tips do you have for me?
17:14 – What do you say to people who use Church history for not believing in God? Ex. Saying Nazis and Fascists were Catholics?
28:28 – I’m a sidewalk counselor. Whenever I mention Mary people begin attacking me. How do I approach this subject?
34:44 – How would you respond to the claim of Eternal Security while using 1 Jn 5:13 and Mt 7:23 as evidence for it?
42:55 – How is purgatory good news?
48:20 – How do I address the sex scandal to a friend who constantly brings it up as a dig towards the faith?
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Questions Covered:
03:34 – What’s the scriptural proof for purgatory?
08:39 – Can you bless God?
12:23 – What does it mean to be made in the image and likeness of God? Are aliens also made in his image?
18:39 – My friend who survived the Bosnian war in the 90’s said she will never become Catholic because the Catholic and Orthodox Churches influenced the war. How do I respond to this?
24:30 – Is wearing Nikes a sin because the name comes from a pagan goddess?
30:43 – What is the difference between the gift of prophecy and words of knowledge? Does bone broth break a Friday meat fast?
41:00 – Luke described the baby Jesus swaddled and hands and feet tied. Is this imagery of the crucifixion?
45:03 – My husband is a convert and just joined the Knights of Columbus. I don’t know anything about them. Can you explain?
49:39 – What do we know about the state of the soul of a person entering dementia, and losing mental faculties etc.? What can they do to go to heaven?
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Questions Covered:
04:17 – Why would God allow sexual slavery as mentioned in Deut. 21:10-14?
13:14 – How do I respond to protestants who ask about the brothers and sisters in Christ?
23:58 – What is the Catholic teaching on cremation?
34:40 – Can you do a video on the 7 apocryphal books and talk about if there are connections to the New Testament? And if they were accepted by Jews?
38:16 – Can you create your own novena for a saint?
41:32 – During the petitions at mass they mentioned “equity for all people.” Am I overreacting in saying this is inappropriate for Mass?
51:07 – Do you think we are at the beginning of the tribulation considering all the civil unrest happening today?
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Questions Covered:
01:24 – Why does the Catholic Church downplay the deaths caused by Thomas More?
12:40 – Can the pope’s authority ever be invalidated?
21:50 – What exactly do Catholics believe about the assumption of Mary?
41:33 – If the Jewish faith accepts reincarnation, does the Catholic faith also accept the teaching of reincarnation?
50:36 – when you go to confession, is your absolution not valid until you complete your penance?
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