The Internet opens the door to a variety of valuable on-line resources to enhance adult faith formation. While not a substitute for parish level faith formation activities or classes, these sites offer supplemental resources for people wanting to research their faith.
Diocesan Media Center
Diocesan Media Resources
-- The
diocese maintains a wide variety of educational
materials for use by parishes, adult faith formation
groups, and individuals.
Catholic Radio
KEXS AM 1090 -- This Kansas City based evangelizing Catholic radio station acquires a majority of its programming from the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) radio and from Ave Maria radio. Located at 1090 AM and broadcasting from sunrise to sunset, KEXS also is streamed on the internet 24-hours per day. Programming includes: Daily Mass, the Rosary, the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, the Catechism of the Catholic Church -- with the dynamic and popular preacher, Father John Corapi -- Catholic Answers call-in show, and the best of Dr. Scott Hahn. For a comprehensive programming guide, click here.
Scripture Study
Among popular features are
Breaking the Bread
newsletter with a commentary on the Sunday readings and
the first new Catholic theological quarterly of the
third millennium,
Letter and Spirit.
Catholic Scripture Study International offers an
easy-to-follow in-depth, faithfully Catholic study guide
and materials specifically formatted for group study.
Contributors include leading Catholic authors, scholars,
and apologists.
St. Joseph Communications carries a wide variety of
audio and video tapes and CD’s, including Bible studies
by Scott Hahn, Frather Mitch
Packa,
S.J., Tim Staples, and many others. Visit this site for
audio conversion stories, apologetics series, family
life, audio books, and catechesis. Of particular
assistance to religious educators are the study guides
for Bible studies.
Catholic Libraries and Download Sites
The Catholic Download Site offers material from the
Fathers of the Church,
The Imitation of Christ
by Thomas a Kempis,
The Way of
Perfection of St. Theresa of Avila,
screensavers, etc.
Visit
The Vatican’s official web site for use of a
vast library, secret archives and museums.
This site is invaluable for locating papal
writings from encyclical letters to Council documents.
Use this link to review the encyclicals of
Pope John Paul II.
Every Catholic should be familiar with the
16 documents of the Second Vatican Council.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
The
Catechism is beautifully written and an extremely
valuable resource for the faith especially as regards
doctrine and prayer.
It is completely searchable.
Make use of it!
Apologetics
What are apologetics? A way to explain and defend the faith with gentleness and reverence. [I Peter 3: 15 -16]
Catholic Answers is an apologetic and evangelization
association founded by Karl Keating, author of the best
selling book,
Catholicism and Fundamentalism.
This site streams what most likely is the single
most syndicated and listened to radio show,
Catholic Answers Live. Carried on EWTN, the
show uses a call-in format.
Additionally, the producers publish an excellent
apologetics magazine,
This Rock. Articles from the magazine are
archived on the Website.
The
Envoy Magazine publishes on-line
resources for researching its apologetic articles by
subject. The site is equipped with printer-friendly
capabilities.
Published in Kansas City,
Catholic Faith and Reason provides
excellent resources for apologetics.
Catholic Resources and Web Sites of all Kind
The
New Advent site gathers a wide variety of resources
into one location. Visit this site for the
Catholic Encyclopedia, St. Thomas Aquinas’
Summa
Theologica, the Church Fathers’
writings (excellent for apologetics), a Catholic MP3
audio link, etc., etc.
The
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars is an association of
Catholic scholars in various disciplines who see
intellectual work as a service owed to God. It was
founded primarily to give the corporate witness of
scholars to the
the truth of the Catholic faith.
Annual Meeting of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars --
Meeting in Kansas City from September 22-24, the
Fellowship of Catholic Scholars selected
Sacrosanctum
Concilium
and the Reform of the Liturgy
as the theme for this year's convention. Conference
topics include: sacred music, art and architecture,
liturgical texts and translation, and the theology and
mission of Catholic liturgy. Celebrated by Bishop Robert
Finn, the opening liturgy is scheduled for Friday,
September 22, at Noon. Dr. James Hitchcock, St. Louis
University professor and author of
Recovery of the Sacred, will present the
conference keynote address.
For further information and to register for the
conference, click here.
United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops maintain a variety of on-line resources for current events, religious news, the Catechism, feature pages on Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, a search engine and much more.
