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:
06:41 – Why did only Mary need to be conceived without sin?
12:34 – Why are people hating on Mary and the Medjugorje apparitions, especially with so many conversions?
17:05 – Why does the woman in Revelation 12 have a dual interpretation as being Mary and Israel?
20:46 – What is your opinion of Our Lady of Lourdes and what is the Church’s official teaching?
24:09 – Did Mary live out her natural life before her Assumption?
32:42 – How is it that some protestants deny Mary’s assumption but accept a pre-tribulation rapture?
35:47 – How does one reject the Immaculate Conception if God dispense grace according to his will and purpose before time eternal as said in 2 Tim 1:9?
38:12 – My wife is considering Catholicism. She wants to know where in the bible it says to pray to Mary?
43:31 How do you respond to the claim that the bodily assumption and that Mary is mother of the Church were inventions by the Catholic Church?
47:12 – Regarding the Song Mary Did You Know. How much did Mary know and how did she know?
51:05 – My Protestant husband can’t understand how Mary can be the mother of God?
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Questions Covered:
01:16 – It sounds like they are worshiping Judith in Judith 15:9-10. How do I understand this verse?
05:04 – Regarding Daily Defense Day 70. I disagree that abortion is not a religious issue. Abortion violates the commandments.
11:28 – Is there a teaching on what our age would be in the next life?
16:18 – Are you familiar with the criticism that the bible doesn’t have a basis for the immortality of the soul? If the soul is not immortal would this erase the need for hell?
29:04 – How do we explain animal death before the fall?
35:20 – Does the Church have an official stance on Medjugorje?
42:07 – Since the Church expanded the understanding of salvation outside of the boundaries of the physical Church, would a person in those times who believed our current interpretation, be in good standing?
49:36 – When the pope does an action, is he saying ‘this is good, do this.’ For example, Pope John Paul II kissing the Quran.
52:53 – Why are masons not allowed to be Catholic but other organization members like Alcoholics Anonymous can?
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Questions Covered:
03:49 – Can a person act out of anger, and it still be considered a mortal sin?
07:07 – Did Mary have birth pains?
18:07 – Is it necessary for us to do the sign of the cross before and after every prayer?
20:18 – Is there a version of the divine liturgy in the eastern rites that has been scrutinized like the Latin mass? Has the Easter rite had an experience like the current division between the Novus Ordo and Latin mass?
24:50 – Why doesn’t God just delete hell?
34:07 – Do we know Luther’s motivation for declaring the Deuterocanon non-canon? Why are there additional books that are not in Catholic bibles?
44:09 – Why choose to believe in an invisible reality instead of everything I’ve known in my life?
51:53 – Is life on earth the only life in the physical universe?
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Questions Covered:
03:50 – Why do we believe that we have free will if God already knows what we’re destined for?
09:23 – If listening to music that’s offensive to God is sitting on your heart, you should listen to that and stop.
13:45 – Revelation says the Lord will rule with an iron rod. What does this mean? Will this be a ‘dictatorial peace?’
17:12 – Regarding divorce and Jesus’ comments in Mt. 5:31-32. What would justify divorce?
29:40 – Is it licit for Catholics to receive donated body parts and materials from deceased people?
33:29 – Are we supposed to bury an urn with ashes after a certain period of time? Can we keep the remains on a shelf?
37:51 – Why do Catholics believe in guardian angels? What do you think they do?
41:56 – How do you respond when a Protestant uses the Church Fathers to defend their position?
47:27 – Is there distinction between venial and mortal sins in the bible?
52:09 – Why does the Church teach that there are no more prophets after the apostolic age?
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Questions Covered:
05:50 – Are indulgences real?
17:35 – Why wasn’t Moses allowed to go into the promised land?
22:07 – Could you explain plenary indulgences and the history of people paying for them?
29:12 – If someone goes to confession and does their penance, they still have to go through a purgation. Is this true?
33:43 – Can one listen to music where the singer uses the Lord’s name in vain?
41:05 – How does the Church reconcile the preferential option for the poor when poverty arises due to one of the 7 deadly sins?
49:04 – In the Creed it mentions the resurrection of the body. Why is this important and why can’t we just leave the body behind?
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