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!
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Most Recent Episodes
Karlo Broussard takes up the challenge of those who say Romans chapter 8 assures the Christian that salvation cannot be lost. The author of Meeting the Protestant Challenge puts this passage within the context of the full teaching of Jesus and the Apostles in order to uncover the truth about salvation.
Does Saint Paul promise my salvation is secure? Karlo Broussard is next.
Cy Kellett:
Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. Part of our Catholic faith is that we have to work out our salvation in fear and trembling…
Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
03:20 – What happened to Pontius Pilate after Jesus was crucified?
05:39 – How can I best respond to non-Christians and non-Catholics who criticize the Church because there have been scandals?
11:47 – How do you know when it is the Holy Spirit convicting you and not someone or something else?
14:00 – How can I explain to my daughter why a marriage is truly only between a man and a woman, even though the courts have ruled that the meaning of that word has changed?
17:49 – What is the Church’s most recent teaching on the Medjugorje apparitions?
22:00 – What does the Church teach regarding transhumanism?
28:43 — Does anything in the Old Testament prefigure Mary and the Holy Spirit overcoming her?
31:09 – I have been in a nursing home for a few years and have not been able to get to confession in a very long time. Tomorrow, someone is bringing Holy Communion for the first time in almost a year and a half, and I am wondering if I can receive Jesus. Can you help me?
35:13 – I have been banned from my parish (not allowed on the premises) because I have protested them only allowing Communion in the hand. Have I committed a sin by protesting this? I want it to be offered on the tongue, especially since so many have been vaccinated now.
41:25 – My Protestant friend is adamant that there should be no denominations and says that there are none, that all of these groups are actually one church. How can I explain to her that the one Church is the Catholic Church?
46:38 – Is a priest complicit in a grave sin if he gives Communion to someone in the state of mortal sin?
50:54 – I have been praying for courage to trust our Lord. Is that prayer offensive to him? Should I just be able to trust him?
52:23 – I can’t reconcile the Church’s teaching of Christ having two natures. St. Cyril said that Christ had one nature, a composite of two natures, which makes more sense to me. Can you help me with this?
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Callers choose the topics during Open Forum, peppering our guests with questions on every aspect of Catholic life and faith, the moral life, and even philosophical topics that touch on general religious belief.
Questions Covered:
04:36 – Is modesty relative to culture?
11:12 – Can the devil know what you’re thinking?
14:17 – What do Protestants mean by ‘works’?
24:20 – If there is perfect happiness in heaven, how can our sins hurt or affect God?
33:42 – If there is alien life on another planet, would they need Jesus for their salvation?
44:07 – What is the difference between moral law and ceremonial law in the Old Testament?
51:04 – How do I respond to someone who says that there were two sacrifices, Jesus at the Last Supper and Jesus dying on the Cross?
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Questions Covered:
01:00 – Do we need an absolute standard as grounding for ethical norms? If so, how can we assert that absolute standard as the Christian God?
17:30 – A Protestant friend thinks that God predestines the Elect to Heaven in such a way that we have no say in the matter, that we cannot in any way merit our salvation. Of course it’s all God’s grace and we cannot merit final perseverance from what I’ve heard, but we do merit and truly participate in our salvation. Is there an easy way to argue against this, and any Bible quotes that make it clear?
29:00 – The entire Old Testament seems to depict the people of God continually failing and until the coming of Christ, which is the end of all these failures. There is a continual cultural failure as they succumb to pagan cultures around. Looking at this today, how much are we to engage with this earthly culture? Is there a better option than a strictly “Benedict option” response? How do we naturally stand apart from the culture, genuinely offering a plausible alternate narrative?
45:00 – There are many today who are not convinced that the Catholic faith is relevant. How can we prove the utmost importance of the faith when the Church itself doesn’t exhibit that faith? For example, in the wake of covid, many parishes and clergy have acted like the things of this world are more important.
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Questions Covered:
07:27 – I have a question about Judas and predestination. I feel like I know the short answer is no predestination, but I can’t seem to reason my way to what sounds like the correct answer. If Jesus’ omnipotent knowledge of Judas’ betrayal does not equal causation, did not Jesus seek out Judas and consequently put him in a position to betray him? If He had not sought him out to join the apostles, Judas would not have been able to betray him. It almost seems like entrapment.
17:00 – Many people claim that women in the bible seem to be treated as second-class citizens, for example, in Leviticus 12, the mother who gives birth must be purified for twice the amount of time for having a female child, rather than a male. Even in the New Testament, 1 Timothy 2, St. Paul seems to suggest that the fall was Eve’s fall rather than Adam’s. He says that wives must be submissive to their husbands for this reason. How do we explain?
43:25 – How are we as Catholics supposed to react and respond to scientific claims being made by politicians and scientists who make claims that are contrary to Catholic belief? Should we reject them, consider them, etc.? How do we approach science, which is so anti-God at this point?
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