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:
05:10 – What is the meaning of Matthew 24:28 because it’s translated differently. One says “where the carcass is the vultures will gather”. Another says “where the body is the eagles will gather”. Is it talking about the church and the saints? If so, why do some translations not seem that way?
15:30 – What is happening in the book of Tobit to Sarah’s previous husband? Is God allowing the demons to kill the husband? Or is it more figurative?
16:52 – My son was saying he doesn’t understand in Job why God is allowing all these things to happen to Job. He thinks it’s unfair and that it’s really then the work of the devil. How can I explain why God is allowing these things to happen?
21:58 – What are some resources I can use to better understand the bible?
24:12 – What is the connection between 1st Thessalonians Ch 4:14 and the assumption of Mary? It’s in my rosary pamphlet so I was wondering if you could offer any other passages connected to the assumption to better meditate on it.
31:52 – How best can you read the bible and fully understand it? Are there any resources to use so that I can be sure not to just take everything literally?
39:00 – Is Joachim’s (Mary’s Earthly Father) name in the Bible?
41:42 – I’m having trouble interpreting the moment where Jesus is with the apostles, and they see someone is spreading the word of Jesus and they don’t want to hear about it but Jesus says they’re an ally. How can we say that the Catholic church is the true church while excusing the fact that people are part of other denominations?
46:16 – The Old Testament mentions some animals that we’re not supposed to eat because they’re “dirty”. Are we fully allowed to consume animals even though this is mentioned?
51:01 – What did Martin Luther do to alter the original bible scriptures to make them his own?
52:44 – For the virgin birth prophecy in Isaiah 7:14, is it a dual prophecy or is it only for the virgin birth?
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Questions Covered:
4:21 – Did the blessings from the Old Testament from Abraham and the prophets have any supernatural benefits attached to them?
12:04 – In your book “The Bible is a Catholic Book”, you said that after the apostolic age, no new scripture was written. Where can I find more information/evidence on this?
14:50 – Why does the book of Daniel at end of Ch 14 feature a second incident of Daniel being thrown in the lion’s den?
19:32 – Were the guards at the tomb Roman or Jewish? What does church history tell us about them?
22:22 – At the presentation of Jesus at the temple, Simeon says to Mary “a sword will pierce your heart too so that the thoughts of many can be revealed” What does that mean, specifically, “that the thoughts of many can be revealed”?
29:00 – Is there any way to reconcile the Torah, the Christian bibles, and the Koran?
32:52 – What is the historical/ biblical evidence for apostolic succession? I’ve been having a discussion with a protestant about it.
41:21 – I had a priest tell me that biblical history started with Ch 11/12 when God talked to Abraham. He said everything before that was just a story to set things up. Is that true?
46:48 – Could you explain 2nd Kings and the story of Elisha? It seems kind of random and I don’t really understand it. Why did they make fun of him and why was his punishment so severe?
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Deacon Charlie Echeverry from the Living the Call podcast joins us for a discussion of the opportunities available to better serve the Latino Catholic community. He explains how an apostolate such as ours — and maybe yours — can help bring the Church together in the US and make things less difficult for Catholic families in the future.
Cy Kellett:
You know what’s weird in the American church? It’s getting more Latino while Latinos are getting less Catholic. Deacon Charlie Echeverry from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, th…
Questions Covered:
05:57 – What is the difference between salvation and redemption? Who paid the cost for redemption?
07:56 – I’m a revert and I found out that since my wife and I were married outside the church, it’s not found valid. Can I have some clarification as to how our marriage is seen in the eyes of the church and how to go about this “hiatus” until we get it validated?
13:41 – Is there any reference in the bible to there being a “mother” God or a female figure God?
17:41 – If you’re going to have a religious practice that’s trying to study the heart and mind of reality, why wouldn’t your religion be totally scientifically based, Catholicism seems to always be on the coattails of science.
21:47 – I had a Methodist friend who argued for female ordination and brought up St Paul mentioning Junia, saying she was “honored among the apostles”. Could you talk about this and what it means in terms of females being able to be ordained?
30:55 – At the 2019 Amazon summit that met at the Vatican, what did the Pachamama statue that was presented to the pope symbolize? Was it the Virgin Mary or “mother earth”?
35:56 – How is there one God but then when talking about the trinity, it is said that God is then each of the three parts as well?
44:19 – A Lutheran friend said Christianity is the only religion where works are not required for salvation. Could you please give me a Catholic response to this?
49:00 – I’m a new Catholic. Once a month the priest gives a priestly blessing on new couples married within that month. He raises his hand to give that blessing. The parishioners raise their hands toward the couples as well but I never do it. What is the right way?
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Questions Covered:
06:20 – How can Jesus be both finite and infinite at the same time?
14:35 – In Hebrews 10:5-10 where it says “but a body you prepared for me,” is the “body” the body of Jesus or the body of the Blessed Mother?
17:05 – Why in Leviticus and Deuteronomy is the penalty for breaking so many laws death?
20:53 – How is the word “brother” used in the bible? Is it always just in the literal sense? In Luke 1:36 I believe it’s used differently.
28:39 – During the great schism, if the bishop of Rome separated from the rest of the patriarchy, why wouldn’t that be considered a judgement on the see of Rome by the united church of the first millennium?
33:21 – After the resurrection of Jesus, he tells Mary Magdalene not to touch him because he hasn’t gone to the father, but Thomas sticks his fingers in the wound prior to him going to the father. Why is that?
36:22 – I’m a confessional Lutheran, could you give me 3 of the most important ways we have it wrong and 3 of the most important ways we have it right?
44:59 – Are we allowed to consume meat from halal butchers? I’m not sure if it is prepared a certain way that would be against Catholic teaching.
50:33 – I want to go into apologetics, specifically for the unbound. How would I go about starting out?
52:00 – If the translations of the bible are from Greek, does it mean that the Greek bible has it all correct?
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