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:
04:04 – What backs up the claim that revelation ended with the last apostles?
9:47 – How do you respond to the problem of angelic hiddenness?
12:57 – When God says in Genesis, let us make man in our image, is it a reference to the Trinity?
18:40 – Is the Council of Chalcedon an illegitimate council as the Oriental Orthodox claims? If not, what’s the defense?
22:49 – Is it okay for Catholics to practice martial arts?
28:47 – St. Thomas Aquinas says the fires of purgatory are the same as the fires. How would the soul know whether they are in purgatory or hell?
35:34 – What is the oldest manuscript of the bible we have? Is our current translation the most accurate one?
40:59 – What are your thoughts on Israel only preterism?
47:09 – My college age child is attending a charismatic retreat this weekend. Should we be concerned especially with the tendency to encourage the gifts?
52:28 – Was the marriage between Mary and Joseph only a legal marriage and not a sacramental one?
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Questions Covered:
04:10 – Is it ok to study religions outside of the Catholic Church?
09:49 – Are babies capable of faith even without understanding?
14:35 – What happens to people who have never heard of Jesus?
19:01 – Is it permissible to take communion at a Protestant church?
24:16 – When the Eucharist is broken, a lot of priests elevate the host spreading crumbs everywhere. Is this valid to do?
30:00 – I was invited to a neighbor’s second wedding. Could I attend? She’s a divorced baptized Catholic and this ceremony is at a winery.
40:41 – What advice would you give to a person who said that they prayed to God, and they didn’t answer so they concluded that he didn’t exist?
45:23 – Is there going to be a formal response from the Church now that the former president is calling for a 16-week abortion ban?
53:05 – Is receiving communion at another church a mortal sin and should it be confessed?
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Questions Covered:
13:05 – What’s the most effective way to fight back against the abortion pills being delivered via mail?
17:55 – I’m a college student. It feels like I’m the only pro-lifer in my classes. What do you think I can do without endangering my grade in class?
23:35 – I was tricked into taking an abortion pill. Are you familiar with them tricking women into taking a pill for ‘menstrual extraction’?
28:30 – What about abortion in the case of ectopic pregnancy? Is that okay?
35:05 – How do we know that conception is when the soul gets created? I don’t think it’s from scripture, right? Is it Aquinas? I hear there’s often miscarriages in early pregnancy that don’t even get noticed. So, are all those lost souls?
40:14 – Lots of abolition laws have been introduced that include punishing women who had abortions. Where does the Church stand on this?
43:40 – Do you think the prolife movement needs to rebrand after the overturning of Roe V Wade?
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Questions Covered:
02:43 – When my wife comes to Mass, she goes up to receive a blessing from the priest, but when I go to protestant service with her and do not go up for a blessing, she gets mad– how do I reconcile this?
10:59 – If you go to confession and confess 2/3 mortal sins in the confessional but then die, can those 2 confessed sins be used against you in your judgment?
19:44 – If a married priest becomes a widower, can he then become a Bishop?
21:44 – Which Protestant denominations are Calvinist?
29:28 – Why might a church not have a relic in the Altar?
40:58 – Why do Orthodox believe that we believe the Pope is infallible?
45:41 – If Adam and Eve hadn’t sinned, but a descendant sinned, everyone still have original sin?
48:08 – What is the Catholic evidence for Apostolic succession?
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Questions Covered:
03:14 – How many levels of hell are there?
04:57 – Can you help me reconcile these two verses? Sirach 12: 4-7 “give to the devout but do not give to the sinner” and Proverbs 25: 21
11:55 – How does the baptism of infants work when the infant is not capable of understanding?
16:35 – If someone with a mental illness (such as schizophrenia) is struggling with sins of impurity, are they still morally culpable?
20:00 – I converted to Catholicism, if I go to protestant service with my family can I receive the “communion” at their service?
23:27 – Hypothetical question– If a priest were to die during the consecration and only consecrated the body, not the blood, is the transformation still complete?
29:12 – If you are new to the Catholic faith should you wait to start studying apologetics or dive right in?
38:58 – is it okay to support the scouts?
44:32 – How explicit should you get with your sins in confession?
47:40 – How do I explain Christ’s humanity to people who don’t understand Christ was both man and God.
51:33 – if you don’t know you’re committing a sin are you still accountable for that sin?
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