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:
15:07 – If you’re divorced and remarried but your first marriage wasn’t in the Church, can you receive communion?
18:46 – While you wait for an annulment, what does it mean to live like brother and sister
23:19 – I was married to a non-Catholic and having trouble finding proof of this prior marriage. Only divorced. What can I do to prove it was not a marriage in the Church?
30:07 – What does it take to get an annulment?
34:13 – I just wanted to say that the advice to give, to go to a priest should also include the deacons. I feel like the deacons were made for this.
35:07 – Why don’t they treat casual sex with the same degree as being in a non-Catholic valid marriage?
43:34 – What’s the Church’s guidance for those who don’t have a valid marriage and are separated but don’t seek divorce?
45:28 – What is the reason for annulments being valid if the couple are married outside of the Church building?
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Questions Covered:
08:44 – When dialoguing with a protestant and using the common ground of the bible, where should I go in terms of moving the conversation after a “this is just how i interpret it’ point 5. causes it to stagnate?
15:30 – How do you respond to the claim that in order to be Christian one needs to be born again?
20:20 – Is there salvation outside the Catholic Church?
28:46 – A protestant asked me if using bacon grease breaks the Friday Lenten abstaining from meat?
34:40 – How do we defend against claims that the papacy has changed over history? How do we defend doctrines that were introduced later in history?
44:56 – How do I respond to people who say that the Catholic Church is the whore of Babylon?
52:55 – What’s the difference between abstinence and fasting during lent?
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Questions Covered:
02:42 – Some Protestant minister who converts to Catholic church can become priests and stay married. Why isn’t this extended to Deacons?
09:09 – How can I reconcile Holy Days of Obligation and fasting during lent with Mark Chapter 7?
17:05 – I’ve heard the Word became the Son at the incarnation only based on Psalm 2. How can I respond to this?
23:50 – Where is St. Gabriel mentioned in the Bible, what makes him an Archangel?
28:50 – Why is there no video evidence of a miracle?
34:02 – How did the Septuagint get its name?
36:05 – How can I talk to someone who says you don’t need Confession?
40:32 – Why did St. Padre Pio have the stigmata, and did it hurt?
42:13 – Why in the US does we seem to ignore a 1997 Vatican Instruction when it comes to the use of extraordinary minister?
48:17 – What denomination is the Hillsong church and can we attend as Catholics?
50:54 – Is there firm teaching of using they/them pronouns?
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Questions:
04:55 – Why shouldn’t we use the pronouns of transpeople, if the Pope consistently does?
14:47 – Why do Protestants use Ephesians 4:11 to say that we don’t need priest?
22:22 – Is going to Confession for the same thing repeatedly pointless?
31:54 – What are your thoughts on increasing reverence by receiving on the tongue and kneeling?
42:55 – How did David become a priest based on the order of Melchizedek?
47:54 – Was the Son of God in biological form or spiritual form prior to the birth of Jesus?
51:56 – Understanding more on the What separates the deuterocanonicals from the rest of the books from the apocrypha?
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Questions Covered:
01:43 – What exactly are Catholics bound to follow? letters, encyclicals, ex-cathedra declarations, etc.
06:02 – What exactly is the authority carried by the nihil obstat?
11:57 – If I believe in everything the Church teaches but I also believe in reincarnation and continual revelation. Can I become Catholic?
22:45 – If you have to be in the state of grace to enter heaven, does that mean your last confession is the only one that matters?
31:17 – I’m a convert. How can I go about receiving the spiritual benefits of the eucharist if I have a hard time believing in the real presence?
37:36 – Are there any writings of papal authority being passed on in the early Church?
46:02 – Can you explain the difference between venial and mortal sin?
52:11 – Why can’t you go to confession over the phone?
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