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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
Engaging the imagination is often the key to engaging the intellect. Dr. Holly Ordway, author of Apologetics and the Christian Imagination, explains how apologists can use story to help share the truth.
Cy: Want to be a good apologist? Try being a great storyteller. Holly Ordway, next.
Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. Many of us have grown accustomed to the apologist as a person who makes reasoned arguments in defense of the faith, and without question, this is central to apologetics. But reasoned arguments are often not enough and appeal to the imagination is also needed, a…
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:
00:59 – A Protestant told me that Catholics took books out of the Latin Vulgate. Is this true?
06:11 – How do we reconcile ourselves with slavery in the Old Testament?
14:08 – Must we receive the Eucharist in both species?
17:32 – Can you help me understand purgatory better? I really want to become Catholic, but this is holding me up.
28:56 – What is the significance of the mortar board that is placed on top of the chalice at Mass?
31:45 – My godson was killed in a motorcycle accident this year. Everyone has been asking me, how can this be God’s will? How can I respond?
41:01 – I had this conversation with a Jehovah’s Witness who asked me why Catholics don’t call God by his name, Jehovah. How could I respond to this?
49:30 – How can I explain original sin to a non-Catholic?
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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:
04:41 – How can I refute someone who says that suicide is promoted in Scripture?
12:32 – Do we have a fallible Church for an infallible source?
24:09 – How can I explain why we call our worship service “Mass”?
28:43 – What is the belief of the Catholic Church about the “new Earth”? Who will live there?
36:44 – If you are in heaven, it is perfect and pure bliss. Would you have knowledge of your loved ones who went to hell? Wouldn’t that make you sad?
45:10 – When did the Magi visit Jesus? Was it in Nazareth or Bethlehem?
49:40 – What exactly is a blessing?
Book Tim to speak at your parish or next event.
Want more from Tim Staples?
Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines
Jimmy Swaggart Made Me Catholic
Catholic Answers to Common Objections
The Sword of the Spirit: Defending Six Central Catholic Teachings
Living Bread (CD)
Last Call: The Catholic Teaching on Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell
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Questions Covered:
17:23 – What is the tradition of the Advent wreath? What prayers should be said? What is the origin of it?
29:00 – Why do Christians celebrate Christmas when it doesn’t say to celebrate it anywhere in the Bible?
31:30 – What is the distinction between early Advent and late Advent?
33:25 – I recently came back to the Church and I have no idea what Advent is or how I should be celebrating it. What should I do?
39:52 – I lead two groups. Do you have any suggestions for spiritual reading for my men’s group for Advent?
44:08 – Why is there one pink candle in the Advent wreath?
46:20 – When should we be putting our trees and decorations up?
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Questions Covered:
20:22 – What happens when a culture starts out Christian and then deteriorates back toward pagan culture?
35:02 – Where did you hear that there was paint put on Our Lady of Guadalupe’s tilma? I thought this was a miracle.
41:55 – Has there ever been a situation when the culture was too strongly incorporated and altered the truths of the faith?
45:50 – How and why was December 25 chosen for the feast of our Lord’s birth?
48:56 – I disagree with what you said about bombing cities from the air. If you’re talking about Nagasaki, it was just war.
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