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:
03:25 – What’s the actual effect of Grace? What does receiving the Eucharist do practically?
13:50 – How does the Catholic community define and practice worship and prayer?
21:03 – In Anglican. If the claim that Peter’s successors retain the same power and status, why don’t the successors of the other apostles hold the same?
29:33 – I’m almost finished reading the book of Numbers. How am I supposed to read the story of Balaam and Balak?
34:31 – What is the Sabbatine privilege and what are the requirements to obtain it?
40:52 – What scriptures do Jewish converts to Catholicism have to abide by?
51:50 – What are the requirements for a plenary indulgence?
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Questions Covered:
03:25 – What’s the actual effect of Grace? What does receiving the Eucharist do practically?
13:50 – How does the Catholic community define and practice worship and prayer?
21:03 – In Anglican. If the claim that Peter’s successors retain the same power and status, why don’t the successors of the other apostles hold the same?
29:33 – I’m almost finished reading the book of Numbers. How am I supposed to read the story of Balaam and Balak?
34:31 – What is the Sabbatine privilege and what are the requirements to obtain it?
40:52 – What scriptures do Jewish converts to Catholicism have to abide by?
51:50 – What are the requirements for a plenary indulgence?
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Question Covered:
06:49 – Can you explain the concept of a new Heaven and a new Earth?
15:19 – How can I help my Christian Grandmother’s salvation without hurting her feelings?
21:19 – Can you explain what Paul meant by handing a sinner’s flesh to Satan so his soul can be saved in 1 Cor 5:5?
30:50 – Can you explain why temporal sinfulness can merit eternal punishment?
43:47 – How does Purgatory work and how can we get out?
47:19 – My priest wrote that the worst pain you can have is in purgatory, where in the bible might this be?
51:17 – Does Mark 14:7 excuse us from giving to the poor?
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Questions Covered:
06:29 – Can a believer who is not Baptized in the Catholic church go to Heaven?
13:51 – What was the first recorded miracle with a relic?
16:09 – When did people stop believing in Purgatory?
22:28 – What is the scriptural basis for purgatory?
32:46 – How can we explain ghosts or spirits on Earth if there are only three paths after death?
36:30 – My son died as a teen, but I didn’t Baptize him. Can he be saved since it was my choice?
43:48 – Why might a courtroom scenario be used to describe our final judgment?
50:16 – Is it true that only Jesus and Mary are in heaven?
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Questions Covered:
02:10 – How can I respond to claims that Matthew 4 and Jesus’s temptations prove Sola Scriptura?
06:31 – Can you explain the new and the old wine skin parable?
12:53 – When is the completion of the Eucharist on the Cross?
16:17 – What is a good response for any problematic study notes in the New American Bible?
22:25 – Was there any time in the Bible where the Eucharist looked like the Mass today or was it a communal dinner?
30:37 – Does Act 8:14-17 disapprove baptism by Jesus’s name only?
39:48 – When Matthais became an apostle there were 13 now, how does this impact the 12 seats?
44:36 – Is the italicized text in the Bible the word of God?
48:17 – Why don’t Catholics go by the Bible exactly?
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