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
Open Forum – Questions Covered:
10:24 – What is holy mortification?
18:10 – Why does the bible use the genealogy of Joseph for the lineage of Jesus if they’re not related by blood?
29:56 – My protestant friend is claiming that the KJV bible is superior to Catholic translations. How do I respond?
46:59 – Is the mosaic law prohibited like it said in the Council of Florence?
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Open Forum – Questions Covered:
04:14 – Is Mary present when we have Mass?
15:24 – What’s the evidence for Peter being the first pope?
33:10 – What is the Catholic interpretation of Romans 8:1?
45:50 – What is “The word” That the Lord must say so that we may be healed?
51:03 – Did the prophets of the OT have an indwelling of the Trinity or the Holy Spirit similar to what Catholics have today?
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Questions Covered:
11:46 – I was told that the 12-step program is based on the beatitudes. Is this true?
13:58 – The beatitudes start with “happy are those” not “blessed”
18:07 – The beatitude regarding righteousness, How does this apply when wanting to help a parent who doesn’t want to be helped because they don’t see you as someone to correct them?
22:30 – Could you expound on the beatitude “blessed are the peacemakers?”
36:35 – Can you clarify the phrase poor in spirit?
39:16 – To what extent is the term blessed synonymous with happy?
44:19 – Are you familiar with how the beatitudes are depicted on the series The Chosen? If you have, what are your thoughts on it?
49:55 – How does one receive the awareness of being poor in spirit if one lives in a society of comfort and abundance?
53:08 – Is your new book in a good format for a bible study? Does it come with the study guide?
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Questions Covered:
13:55 – I’ve been Catholic all my life but I’m still mystified. A part of me embraces his mercy and another part of me is afraid of him. Can you help give some insight?
20:14 – What is a relationship with Christ? How does one relate that to protestants?
31:53 – How does God use guardian angels to bring us closer to him?
35:07 – Am I focusing too much on the Father rather than Jesus?
40:18 – Has your knowledge of the Church Fathers helped you with your relationship?
43:38 – You mentioned reading the bible to help with a relationship. I struggle with reading the bible because I fear that I’ll misinterpret it. Can you give me some advice?
46:45 – Don’t have a relationship with Jesus and am no longer believing. I’m only remaining Catholic because I fear hell. Is this wrong?
50:17 – How do I help my four children have a relationship with Jesus when I struggle with having one with him?
52:37 – How do you make having a relationship with Jesus sound fun and exciting when talking about it?
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Questions Covered:
00:58 – Does Time Travel exist?
04:39 – Granting that I time travel back to the past to Jesus’ crucifixion, I take videos of Jesus to prove he exists, and I join Mary and John in approaching him. Is there a possibility that I will be recorded in the Bible? And will the videos and photos that I have taken will be erased if I come back from the past?
09:35 – Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
17:39 – Where are all the cryptid sightings coming from, especially in national parks?
28:44 – Archeologists have discovered that there was a small Christian community in the city of Pompeii before the Vesuvius eruption. What if, by some miracle, a scroll somehow survived in the city, with the text of something that claimed to be a “Letter of Paul to the Pompeians”? It follows the format of the universally accepted Pauline epistles, it doesn’t contradict anything Paul wrote previously, and it ultimately seems to be genuinely from Paul. How do you think the Church would respond to the situation?
41:48 – What are the top three (or any other arbitrary number) lost books you would love to have? Tell us about them, and tell us why you would love to have them. I’d like to read the Gospel of the Hebrews, for example, in its entirety (instead of the fragments left behind in writings by the early Church Fathers).
50:43 – Does the Highlander have a soul since he is immortal? Would an immortal being need a soul?
52:13 – Does baptism apply to a person’s entire body? For example, if technology were such that my body died but one cell remained alive and I was regrown immediately from that cell, is my baptism still valid or does the regrown body need to be baptized? Similarly, if a baptized person’s heart (or other organ) is transplanted into another non-baptized person does the organ from the baptized body transmit its baptismal graces to the new body?
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