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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
Questions Covered:
17:15 – My daughter has been heavily drinking after her twin brother committed suicide.
31:34 – I’ve been in AA for 12 years. How did you move forward with recovery and mix Catholicism with the 12 steps?
28:45 – I’m a Catholic and 43 years in recovery. Where can I find your group and help?
37:13 – How do I deal with spiritual desolation through addiction?
44:42 – I’m in CIR and celebrating 1 year of sobriety today!
47:50 – Do you have codependent meetings?
49:46 – Do you have meetings for people with food addictions?
51:50 – I’ve been in AA for 16 years and have a lust addiction and have not been successful in the latter. How is desperation to quit a grace?
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Questions Covered:
05:22 – Why do Christian Zionists evangelicals believe in Israel the way that they do?
14:07 – Why didn’t Jesus write the New Testament himself?
16:30 – I comes from a materialist background. I struggle with the concept of the soul. What’s the best way to understand it with my background?
22:05 – I pray the rosary daily. How do we justify including Mar in the last two glorious mysteries without it feeling like we’re worshiping her?
31:19 – When we pray to saints in heaven, they know of the pain and sorrows of earth, how can that be heaven?
34:54 – Can the identity of the pope be infallibly known?
47:40 – Are angels male and female or just male?
49:55 – What is the Church teaching on Mary as Co-Redemptrix?
52:10 – What are sins of the heart and of the spirit as said in the 12 year prayer to St. Bridget?
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Questions Covered:
06:47 – Are there any independent sources of the murder of the Holy Innocence?
12:23 – Should the Saturday vigil mass only be for those who can’t go to mass on Sundays in a strict sense such as paramedics etc.?
18:17 – What does it mean to retain sins?
31:10 – Regarding the Church’s stance on abortion. What does the Church stand when it comes to rape, incest and the life of the mother?
45:35 – How do I respond to my protestant friend who claims the early Church quickly fell into error? His evidence is that in the New Testament Paul was already correcting errors, and that the Old Testament says God’s people are continually falling away.
52:30 – Mt.16:24, What did Jesus mean when he said that everyone needed to pick up their cross and follow him if he had not yet been crucified when he said it?
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Questions Covered:
03:55 – My cousin is considering leaving Catholicism. What is going on regarding the 7 churches in Revelations? Why do Protestants use this to justify different Churches?
14:58 – I’ve lived 52 years as a Lutheran. Why did Luther “water down” the Eucharist and make it less of a pure miracle than it is?
29:10 – In the book of John during the trial of Barabas, the Jewish mob says, “His blood be upon us and all our generations.” Is that a legally binding statement?
49:32 – How is it that the Church of the Jews suddenly became the Roman Catholic Church of Esau? If the Jews come from Jacob, then how did Catholics come to be of Esau?
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Questions Covered:
03:10 – Was the Ethiopian Eunuch responsible for starting a Church in Africa. How would this be possible if he wasn’t a bishop?
05:29 – Why don’t angels preach the gospel to humans?
08:14 – How would you approach someone who says that Christianity sounds great but sounds unbelievable?
17:23 – Could you explain why the Old Testament is reasonable to believe in?
40:35 – What’s the best way to explain purgatory to protestants without invoking anger?
47:03 – What do you say to the question, if one holds to the old earth creationist view, how could there be death and disease prior to the fall?
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