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:
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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Questions Covered:
18:26 – If you get married civilly then divorced, are you married in the eyes of the Church?
20:45 – I have a family member who married in the Church and her husband was abusive. She divorced him and now she feels pushed out of the Church. What are her options?
24:14 – Is addiction a valid reason for divorce and annulment?
31:12 – Is divorce illegal in the Church? Is it punishable by sin?
35:12 – My husband divorced me when I became Catholic. I know I can’t remarry but I know some others have. This feels like the Church is inconsistent.
42:21 – Under the circumstances where divorce is allowed, would one still need to confess their divorce?
45:33 – How do I explain to my stepdaughter that an annulment would not affect the legitimacy of her children?
48:55 – I’m on my second marriage. My priest just told me that it’s not valid. What are your thoughts?
52:09 – My sibling received an annulment. She hasn’t gone to confession. Do you think it’s important for her to go?
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Questions Covered:
02:56 – Hebrew 10 says the blood of bulls and goats can’t take away sin. Why then does Leviticus say that it does?
06:00 – I heard that a red heifer was going to be sacrificed in Israel this year for Passover. Is this significant and what is the Church’s opinion of this?
14:44 – I’m in RCIA. I’m getting conflicting information. Who wrote the gospels?
23:17 – I had a seizure and was placed on meds. I started to hear a voice in my head saying I was going straight to hell. Once I started to pray the rosary, the voice immediately went away. What do you make of this?
29:10 – The bible has a lot of reference to demons. Were there a lot more demons during Christ time than ours?
32:34 – How do I understand images and apparitions of pain and suffering? I thought there was no more pain and suffering in heaven?
35:38 – Is there sometimes when more than one rosary is needed in our possession?
40:11 – Why is it that you can EM in one diocese but not another? In the Fatima apparitions it was said that one girl would be in purgatory until the end of time. If we pray for her, can we change that?
44:45 – Regarding Daniel 9:24; is Jesus the new temple?
49:58 – Why doesn’t CA produce books in mass like Matthew Kelly does? I feel like we are missing out.
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