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:
05:15 – I have a photo of an object with an inscription and was wondering what it means ( a client had it on the shelf and I’d never seen it, I take it it is Protestant: Along the top of the block of wood from left to right are painted the names: Paul, Irenaeus, Martin, Columba, Luther, Wesley and Branham. In the center is painted “The Seven Church Ages” and at the bottom is the person’s birthdate. Thank you!
13:20 – how are we to respond to Pope Francis saying that Priests can bless same-sex unions? Is it reconcilable with our Catholic faith being we were taught it goes against God’s teachings?
17:38 – What does the Church say regarding the things people find funny? There are some things that we find funny that may be dark, edgy, and slightly irreverent but we have little control over our reflex to laugh or chuckle at such things. If we do find something funny that’s seen as “offensive” from a moral point of view, are we to confess it and try harder in the future to process the bit or joke until we no longer find it amusing?
24:05 – How does a revert get involved in parish life?
28:32 – Can you explain kenosis? I keep hearing a certain strain of Christians abuse Philippians 2:7 to suggest Jesus gave up his divinity. Their reasoning is that Jesus had to sacrifice himself as a man in order to atone for humanity. Can you please debunk this? 2 Therefore, if there is any encouragement in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 complete my joy, so that ⌊you are in agreement⌋, having the same love, united in spirit, ⌊having one purpose⌋. 3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves, 4 each of you not looking out for your own interests⌋, but also each of you for ⌊the interests of others.
39:06 – I’ve wanted to hear your treatment of the souls of unbaptized children who die before the age of reason. I’ve researched it a fair bit from the 2008 document approved by Pope Benedict, to Servant of God Marcel Van, to alleged quotes by St Bernard of Clairvaux, to other reasons that suggest they go to heaven rather than limbo, but your research & insights would be of interest too.
47:31 – Why was there a bowl of wine/vinegar at the cross? It wouldn’t have been for antiseptic or pain-numbing reasons. What was the reason for it?
49:22 – Have you ever considered doing any Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World episode on neurodivergence?
52:15 – What are the three secrets of Fatima? Why was one of them never revealed to us?
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Questions Covered:
06:17 – calling on behalf on a friend who is discerning Catholicism– his friend has a question about people in the past paying for indulgences and for people to get out of purgatory?
29:14 – discerning Catholicism, he feels open to Catholicism, but his wife is not comfortable with it. What are some basic things he can share with his wife to positively share more about Catholicism with her?
49:10 – I have a family member who is not catholic. Is he allowed to receive last rights?
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Questions Covered:
04:08 – What do Roman Catholic believe going to heaven is dependent upon?
16:14 – What archeological Study Bible should I use if I am trying to become Catholic?
19:07 – how does one become a Catholic but avoid a triumphant attitude?
29:44 – Non Catholic, parents were Catholic, in her 3rd marriage, wants to become Catholic but doesn’t have anyone to sponsor her in RCIA… how does she navigate this?
42:08 – Why is God not held accountable to the same moral standards in relationships as we are?
49:39 – Can you explain more about purgatory and how someone can pray for someone else in purgatory?
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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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