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.
Call in with your question at 1-888-31-TRUTH!
Most Recent Episodes
Apologist and author Trent Horn shares insights into Catholic belief, helping callers grasp why we believe what we believe on a range of topics.
Questions Covered:
05:06 - How do we defend Catholicism against atheists?
12:39 - What is the Protestant journey to Catholicism like? I’m Protestant and I’m just curious about that journey.
21:39 - Is it worth engaging with people on facebook who are anti-Catholic? The facebook group in question has 2000 members and most don’t comment, so I think it might be worth it for the audience who won’t aggressively disagree.
29:33 - My protestant…
Apologist and speaker Karlo Broussard takes up the intellectual challenges posed by Protestant thought, and takes questions from both Protestant and Catholic callers.
Questions Covered:
12:44 - Why does it say in the Bible that we should lay hands and heal people, and why don’t we do that in the Catholic Church?
16:44 - Can you explain baby baptism versus adult baptism?
23:46 - Why is it that priests and nuns are celibate when the bible says they should have spouses?
31:40 - Why are we allowed to have statues? Some protestants say we shouldn’t and honestly, sometimes statues even…
The 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.
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Questions Covered:
01:46 - Why are you a Christian? Do you have rational reasons or is it just faith?
20:31 - What is the Church view of Jesus’ atonement as a vicarious substitution? Does the Catholic Church have a preferred view of the atonement?
36:50 - Why do Catholics start and end prayer with "In the name of the Father..."…
The 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:
07:10 - Why is the unity of the Spirit not taught? Why is the Trinity taught when it is not mentioned in the Bible?
12:53 - Aren’t we judged immediately at the moment of our deaths?
15:38 - Can you clarify the Catholic views on women
21:21 - When Jesus says, “Not my will, but yours be done,” I am curious how God and Jesus can have separate wills. Can you…
We focus on pastoral concerns but welcome any question callers would like to ask a Catholic priest as we are joined by the Catholic Answers chaplain, Norbertine Father Hugh Barbour.
Questions Covered:
05:04 - How do you evangelize to your family when you’re the only one Catholic?
08:10 - What translations of early Church Fathers should I read in order to evangelize my Protestant friends?
15:18 - If the atonement was perfect and it wiped all sin from man, why does the Catholic Church still baptize babies for original sin? Why should we pray to saints?
29:24 - How are the accusations that…
