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:
04:49 – St. Athanasius said that “God became man so that man can become god.” I am a Protestant and I do not understand that. Can you explain what he meant?
12:01 – What are the limits on what an apologist can read or investigate?
14:48 – It would be a sin for me to know that someone next door was being abused and not to tell someone who could help. God knows of people being abused all over the world. Isn’t it a sin for him not to let us know or tell us about it?
21:05 – Are the apparitions at Garabandal approved by the Church?
24:22 – What is the morality of the remote viewing you were discussing on your podcast, considering that the Church condemns fortune tellers, psychics, etc?
36:30 – If God tells us not to worry, then why was Jesus in agony in the garden of Gethsemane?
41:52 – If my mom’s ashes are going to be scattered, can I participate, even though I have not endorsed it being done?
48:14 – What is the need for the Trinity? What is the reason for it?
52:01 – Matthew 27 talks about the curtain being wrent in two. Is this meant to be taken literally?
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Questions Covered:
07:07 – How did a female enter the Old Covenant?
14:45 – Why is Sunday the Lord’s Day and not the Sabbath, which is Saturday?
20:00 – Why does the CCC say that the two purposes of sex are unitive and procreative? No one uses it for the procreative, they enter into it for the unitive aspect.
33:19 – If you bless food and there is some leftover, does that food need to be blessed again or is it still blessed from the first prayers said?
36:42 – Why would God make people homosexual to then send them to hell for acting on their attractions?
48:50 – In 2 Samuel 24, why does God punish David for taking a census?
52:10 – is the role of salvation in the lives of people who lived before Jesus who were not Jews? Could there have been salvation for them?
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Questions Covered:
05:13 – What does the Church teach about following laws given to us by the government?
19:58 – Who made God?
21:19 – I am a Jewish rabbi who does a lot of interfaith work. I am not so knowledgeable about Catholicism. Can you explain to me the purpose and function of Baptism?
37:06 – I am a non-Catholic thinking about converting to the Catholic faith. What is apologetics and what is the reason for apologetics? I hear you mention it a lot on your show.
43:32 – If all good comes from God and humans are made in his image, how do we explain innate goodness and compassion that we see in some primates and other animals?
47:20 – What are the ways that we can have and build treasure in heaven?
50:17 – Why is sin defined so differently in the Mosaic law versus in the New Covenant?
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Questions Covered:
15:40 – What did Mary do for a living? Did she have a day job?
17:53 – If Mary is ever virgin, how could Christ have been born the “regular” way physically–through the womb?
23:39 – I have confusion over these two mysteries of the rosary: The Assumption of Mary and her Crowning as Queen of heaven. Can Karlo explain these further and how they also relate through different rites of Catholicism?
36:40 – I’ve seen conflicting responses from the Catholic Church in regards Mary being conceived without sin, because if all humans including babies (who have not consciously sinned) but still have universal original sin, how has Mary been created human but also as an exception to this universal truth?
47:13 – How one would explain Mary to people in other denominations. Who is Mary? I would like to speak about who I think she is and how Catholics differ in their view of her identity.
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Questions Covered:
15:25 – How do you distinguish between tradition and authoritative church teachings? Is there a list?
19:40 – I have seen a Tik-Tok from an account called @epicdailycatholic claiming Mary is omnipotent in the sense that whatever she asks of God he will grant her because she cannot desire anything other than God’s will? Is this true?
22:24 – Where did chastity originate for Priests?
24:44 – Can Fr. Paul comments on the theological importance of the glory of women’s hair as opposed to men?
31:30 – I am looking for an explanation on my responsibility for explaining and protecting my sister’s children and ex-husband. She and my brother-in-law were divorced a year ago and she has remarried civilly but was not annulled in the church. What can I do in this situation? And how will this affect the state of their souls?
36:28 – Can Father comment on the authentication of the miracle of Guadeloupe?
48:30 – How do Catholics differ from protestants regarding the rapture?
50:05 – As someone who wants to be Catholic but is still learning, how can Mary appear before people if she is not God and is still in heaven?
52:50 – I was just at mass and the priest during the words of concentration skipped over the word “for” in the statement “for this is my body…” Was this a mistake? How important is this word or reciting things word for word?
53:59 – Can you explain priest reassignment?
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