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:
02:28 – What was the thorn in Paul’s side?
06:48 – When I cited John 20: 21-23 as clear evidence for sacramental confession, a protestant made a claim that the power granted by Christ in those passages died with the apostles.
13:10 – At Pentecost, tongues of fire rested on those present, and they spoke in foreign languages (foreign tongues). Is this a play on words? In other languages, especially in Greek, is the word for an anatomical tongue, the same as the word for a slice of fire? Even without a play on words, the coming (from unknown source) of fire often signified the presence of God, so the point of the phenomenon doesn’t rely on the (at least in English) play on words. Does it?
16:07 – My husband died in June of brain cancer 5 months after diagnosis. So many good people keep telling me that “he’s in a better place.” Why do they say that when it should be obvious that he should be with me? I understand that we can’t know for certain where a soul goes after death. How do I respond to this? It makes me angry at how easily people toss that cliché out to a woman who is grieving the death of her husband.
22:04 – Does the Church have a preferred stance on Darwinism vs Lamarckism?
33:36 – The Bible IS a Catholic book. Right. Besides dropping the Deuterocanonical Books, have Protestants in the English-speaking world “mistranslated” words? Like the word Tradition which, in Spanish versions is translated as tradition when is in a negative sense (tradition of men) and teaching when it’s favorable. Is there any in English?
40:25 – Jimmy Buffett’s song Coastal Confessions has a line “Bless me father for I have sinned, given the chance I’ll probably do it again.” Would this make the confession null since it seems Jimmy hasn’t fully repented or is it just honestly/humility?
46:00 – Where did your Mexican serape blanket that you drape over your chair come from?
50:44 – What do you think about the Gospel of the Hebrews? Later patchwork of reworked quotes from the Synoptics? Something contemporary with the Synoptics? A Hebrew version of Matthew? Could it ever be rediscovered?
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Questions Covered:
04:35 – My 9yr old daughter, Kateri, would like to ask: “Does God get angry at us? Sometimes He seems angry, especially when we read stories from the Old Testament.”
07:37 – I am wondering why Whitey Bulger had a funeral Mass? Are there examples of people the church will not give a funeral Mass for? Also, are there any situations when the church excludes people from being buried in Catholic cemeteries? Does the church provide funeral Masses for non-Catholics?
17:50 – After becoming a revert… 30 years ago now…I’m miserable… I thought I could pray a few rosaries and my life would come together…I loved Scott Hahn, and Mother Angelica…but here I sit…waiting…am I just faithless?
24:39 – If aliens show up in a major way and submit to testing n such…what would be necessary or possible to prove to the people who think they would have to be demons that they are not? If that made any sense. Like how could you prove conclusively they are not demons? Or would that not be possible?
35:55 – In the traditional Anaphora of Mar Addai and Mar Mari, the Eucharist is consecrated *without* the words of institution. How do we explain it with Catholic sacramental theology?
43:30 – There is speculation that the negative response that humans have to the “uncanny valley” is due to some evolutionary development where our ancestors were preyed upon something that looked like humans but wasn’t quite human. What do you think?
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Questions Covered:
02:35 – If every soul is guaranteed to go to heaven, why does it matter if you pray for the souls in purgatory?
10:28 – Does morality change over time?
19:48 – What is meant when Jesus says “I am the son of man”
28:46 – How do you minister to people who are suffering and explain that faith can help their suffering?
34:18 – Have the verses in Isaiah 63:1-7 come to pass? What do those verses mean?
41:36 – Could a pope contradict a previous non infallible papal teaching?
48:31 – What does Jimmy think about theistic evolution?
51:41 – Once a deacon is ordained to the permanent diaconate, does he have to remain celibate?
53:35 – Is there scientific study that shows that people who get prayed for are better off than people who do not get prayed for?
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Questions Covered
05:52 – Should someone refrain from becoming Catholic if it would cause division in their marriage?
13:28 – What does the word relations mean in Matthew 1:25?
17:51 – Do angels have genders?
29:04 – the sacrament of extreme unction. Can it take away the need for purgatory?
34:45 – Does a high mass have more spiritual value than a low mass?
42:14 – Why do you have to be baptized before you can get your marriage annulled?
46:42 – Why didn’t the Holy Spirit stop the protestant reformation?
51:04 – Was St. Paul ordained by any of the apostles as a bishop? Was he even a bishop at all?
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Cy, Tim and Stacy take questions during their recent trip to Perth, Australia.
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