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:
04:20 – Where do we find the word ‘priest’ in the New Testament?
14:11 – Can the laity perform a minor exorcism?
23:41 – What resources would you recommend giving my dying protestant mother?
29:38 – What is the Church’s view on ghosts?
34:19 – How do we refute the Calvinist view of free will?
41:18 – How far can the new understanding of capital punishment be taken either way? If I’m a juror and consider capital punishment, am I at risk of sin?
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Questions Covered:
04:23 – I applied for a new job as a data analyst for a medical company. I found out they partner with fertility clinics and LGBT people adoption centers. Could I take this job or am I too close to cooperation with evil?
07:56 – Do you have to be Catholic to go to heaven? Is everyone in heaven Catholic?
14:20 – If I’m serving at a Saturday vigil mass, does it qualify as me participating?
19:21 – Did the Jews that died in the holocaust go to hell?
24:06 – What’s the correct response to the objection on John 6 that Jesus is just speaking spiritually?
31:27 – Does the host after consecration emit anything?
40:45 – Is Anglo-Catholicism a legitimate branch in the Catholic Church?
47:05 – What happens to a person spiritually when they are in a state of grace and then commit a mortal sin?
50:42 – How are we supposed to pray for our loved ones who, as far as we know, have denied Christ?
52:53 – What is the Church’s teaching on fertility drugs?
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Questions Covered:
13:37 – In the early Church, as apostolic succession tied to the bishops of the presbyters?
18:13 – Is the Magisterium above Sacred Scripture?
23:32 – Is there a difference between a nun and a sister?
29:06 – I’m a recent convert. Is salvation lost for my ex-Catholic dad?
33:38 – Are there any connections today between Moloch and abortion?
35:40 – You once gave a great argument against Orthodoxy saying that historically they did take the popes say as authoritative. Could you expound on that?
43:27 – Are the Jewish people still saved by the old covenant? Does the old covenant still apply to converted Jews?
47:33 – Is the long form of the St. Michael prayer an exorcism prayer?
50:41 – What keeps an antipope from adding to Catholic tradition?
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Questions Covered:
04:05 – Why is the Father the first person of the Trinity, the Son the Second, and the Holy Spirit the Third? Why that order?
13:34 – How are we saved? By grace alone or by baptism?
17:54 – Are you fully a Catholic if you have baptism by desire?
28:37 – Is it true that the Council of Trent taught that there’s no salvation outside of the Catholic Church? And if it is, is that still what the Church teaches today?
39:09 – How can we increase in the initial state of justification?
47:30 – Why do Catholics not believe in predestination?
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Questions Covered:
04:37 – 1 John 5:13 says that we can know that we have eternal life. But Catholics say that we can’t know. It sounds like Catholics disagree with the Bible on this. Can we still perish even if we believe in Christ?
17:15 – Why do Christian churches try to scare everybody into believing in hell?
23:09 – Is it true that all Christians who are baptized technically have been exorcized?
29:39 – I have trouble with the teaching that God’s authority over his creations makes it okay for him to kill them. Wouldn’t that make him pro-choice?
42:38 – I see substitutionary atonement as very influential in pushing me towards atheism and I want to see if I’m understanding it correctly.
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