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:
3:53 – Moral argument objection: He either has some reason for commanding what he does, or he doesn’t. What is God adding to this scenario?
14:25 – What are your thoughts on Pope Francis’ Spanish tv interview, that Homosexuality is a sin but not a crime. But it’s a crime in African countries, would that mean that the Church should be exempt from this issue in those countries?
20:40 – Does the Eucharist become the body and blood of Jesus in all Churches?
23:50 – Regarding the Mass, the priest usually gives an intention before the mass. Are the merits for that intention the same as the merits for our intentions that we bring?
29:30 – When will we receive from the chalice at mass again?
33:53 – Why does the Annulment process for Catholics who marry outside the Church consider their marriage lack of form?
39:20 – Why are prayers to Mary efficacious?
46:04 – What makes a Catholic mass have a real presence while others don’t?
48:22 – Why were Jesus’ healings more physical and not so much emotional healings?
50:40 – Does the Church teach anything about the morality of dancing?
52:35 – What would my brother in his marriage have to do to have it blessed by the Church?
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Questions Covered:
15:42 – Why doesn’t the Church try to mend a marriage instead of immediately going forward with the annulment process?
18:34 – I’m in an irregular relationship and am working on it. Do I have to confess it every time?
22:53 – You’re focusing on the irregular part but can you discuss the union part? Is it really a union?
31:35 – How does one explain the current issues on irregular union blessing to a protestant?
40:40 – If a lesbian marries a man, is that grounds for annulment?
43:00 – Why are priests not bringing more clarity on this topic?
47:15 – Can you give us the 6 A’s again. I couldn’t write them down?
49:22 – My husband’s annulment has been suspended and has not received any guidance from my parish. What should I do?
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Questions Covered:
05:32 – Would giving money to the poor fulfill the need for “the works necessary for salvation?”
10:17 – Were Adam and Eve kept from eating of the tree of life in Genesis?
14:49 – Are there any examples of Early Church Fathers who were not premillennialists?
19:38 – I’m doing a bible study with protestants. How do I explain infant baptism to them?
28:44 – I’m making a statue of Mary Magdalene, so do I have to have her head covered?
32:25 – I’m protestant and work with a Jehovah’s Witness. What’s the historical evidence for Jesus being crucified on a cross and not on a pole?
36:48 – Acts 15:28 Paul forbids the Gentiles from consuming blood. Does this mean we have to reinterpret John 6?
45:04 – Why is Tertullian not a saint?
49:53 – My family and I are recent converts. My 13 year old daughter said she doesn’t want to go through confirmation and feels like she was forced to become Catholic. How do I handle this?
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Questions Covered:
04:28 – Are the merits gained through acts of charity lost if a person commits mortal sin?
06:16 – Where did disease and death come from?
14:49 – What’s the proper response when I’m invited to a protestant church service?
17:50 – Why were the Church Fathers not able to agree on the number of sacraments?
22:22 – Why are we as Catholics allowed to embalm our deceased loved ones?
41:43 – In what tense do you read the book of Revelation, past present and future? Regarding Rev 12, how is it possible that Mary experienced birth pains if she was sinless?
51:46 – Which prayers can I accept from other people? For example, prayers from St. JP2 to someone satanic?
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Questions Covered:
05:29 – Is there ever a circumstance where a person can perform a baptism without water?
10:50 – How is it just to create eternal souls without their consent and then punish them when they don’t do right?
18:40 – How do we square the seeming contradiction in Luke 23:43 where the thief will be with Jesus in paradise on that day but Jesus didn’t ascend to heaven for another 40 days?
29:17 – What’s the difference between Anglican and Catholic?
31:39 – With the transgender issue becoming more common, what things are being done in seminaries to ensure the candidates joining are truly men?
34:26 – Who started the teaching that priests had to be celibate?
42:24 – What is the distinction between blessing a marriage and blessing a same sex couple?
46:18 – How long has the Church approved annulments? Are the children of these marriages illegitimate?
48:23 – What does the Church say about asexuality?
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