Resources
Charities
- Catholic Charities - www.catholiccharitiesusa.org - Network of social service organizations in the United States.
- Catholic Relief Services - www.crs.org - The official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community.
- Catholic Network of Volunteer Service - www.cnvs.org - Listing of more than 200 volunteer opportunities in the United States and overseas.
Culture
- Catholic Forum - www.catholicforum.com - A forum and discussion area for Catholics.
- Catholic Culture - www.catholicculture.org - Information on Catholic life sponsored by Trinity Communications.
Education
Catholic Educator's Resource Center - www.catholiceducation.org/index.html -library of the Church's moral and social teachings.
- Seton Home Study School - www.setonhome.org - Largest Catholic home schooling program in the United States.
- Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities - www.accunet.org
Just for Fun
- Greeting Cards - www.catholicgreetings.org - Free online e-cards with Catholic inspiration.
- Catholic Doors - www.catholicdoors.com/musi2/index.htm - Midi music of favorite Catholic hymns.
- Fisheaters - www.fisheaters.com/jokes.html - Clean Catholic jokes.
General Catholic sites
- Catholic Online - www.catholic.org - A comprehensive site with news, links, saints, directories and Scripture, it offers an easily searchable database.
- American Catholic - www.americancatholic.org - The homepage of the Franciscan magazine, St. Anthony Messenger, this site offers a sampler from e-cards to movie reviews to saint of the day.
- Catholic First - www.catholicfirst.com - Prayers, saints, Scripture, Church teachings.
- Catholic Treasury - www.catholictreasury.info - Catholic beliefs, prayers, spiritual teaching.
- Diocese of Springfield- www.diospringfield.org
Marriage & Family Life/Right to Life/NFP
- Americans United for Life - www.aul.org - Pro-life information.
- National Right to Life - www.nrlc.org - The ultimate goal of the National Right to Life Committee is to restore legal protection to innocent human life.
- Human Life International - www.hli.org - International pro-life organization.
- Couple to Couple League - www.ccli.org - Information on natural family planning.
- Marriage: Unique for a Reason - www.marriageuniqueforareason.org/ - A site from the US Bishops to help us all understand marriage better.
- For Your Marriage - www.foryourmarriage.org/ - A site from the US Bishops dedicated to resources for dating and engaged couples, married couples, troubled marriages, etc.
- For Your Vocation - www.foryourvocation.org/ - A site from the US Bishops dedicated to discerning religious vocations.
News Media
- Our Sunday Visitor - www.osv.com - Home of Our Sunday Visitor, with news, information and archives.
- Vatican Radio - www.vaticanradio.org - Programs in 40 different languages from 61 different countries.
- Zenit -- The World Seen from Rome - www.zenit.org - International news agency focusing on the Vatican and the Church.
- Catholic World News - www.cwnews.com - Global news coverage with Catholic emphasis.
- Catholic News Service - www.catholicnews.com - The oldest and largest news service specializing in reporting on religion.
- EWTN Global Catholic Network - www.ewtn.com - Site of the Eternal Word Television Network with TV, radio and library resources.
- U.S. Catholic - www.uscatholic.org - General interest magazine for American Catholics.
- Busted Halo - www.bustedhalo.com - Online magazine for spiritual seekers in their 20s and 30s from the Paulists.
- Godspy - www.godspy.com - Online magazine covering politics, science, economy and the arts.
- Tobias Magazine - www.facebook.com/tobiasmagazine - A magazine for single Catholics
- The Vatican Today - www.news.va - News from the Vatican
Official sites
- The Holy See - www.vatican.va - All major Church documents, papal writings, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, art and even "secret" archives can be found here.
- U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops - www.usccb.org - The official site of the U.S. Catholic bishops includes an online Bible, the Catechism, publications, movie reviews and more.
- Knights of Columbus - www.kofc.org - Home of the world's foremost Catholic fraternal benefit society.
Research
- Papal Encyclicals - www.papalencyclicals.net - An extensive collection of papal encyclicals and other papal documents from the current pope back to Pope Honorius (1226).
- Catholic Liturgical Library - www.catholicliturgy.com - All things related to the Latin rite of the liturgy.
- Code of Canon Law - www.intratext.com/X/ENG0017.htm - Entire code of canon law online.
- CatholicHistory.net - www.catholichistory.net - History of Catholicism in the United States.
- The Catholic Encyclopedia - www.newadvent.org/cathen - This includes online text of the original 15 volumes of history, teaching and general information from the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia. It's excellent for historical research, but does not reflect modern thought or teaching.
Saints and places
- Catholic Shrines - www.catholicshrines.net - List of all Catholic shrines in the United States.
- Divine Mercy - www.divinemercysunday.com/index.htm - Information about the devotion to Divine Mercy.
- Index of Patron Saints - saints.sqpn.com/indexsnt.htm - Large directory of saints information.
Scripture
- New American Bible - www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm - New American Bible online with search engine.
Shopping
- The Catholic Company - www.catholiccompany.com - Books, gifts and statues that are uniquely Catholic.
- Restored Traditions - www.restoredtraditions.com/ - Famous religious art work from great Catholic artists over the centuries.
Specialty
- Your Aging Parent - www.YourAgingParent.com - Spiritual resources and information for Catholic caregivers.
- Catholics in the Military - www.catholicmil.org - Site for Catholics serving in the armed forces, their families and loved ones.
- Catholics Come Home - catholicscomehome.org - Ministry for fallen-away Catholics who wish to return to the Church.
- Café Theology - cafetheology.org - Faith-sharing website for young Catholic adults.
- Catholic Jobs - www.catholicjobs.com - Job listings in Catholic organizations.
- Cantemusdomino - www.cantemusdomino.net - Resource for sacred liturgical music.
Spirituality
- Daily Mass Readings - www.usccb.org/nab/nabpodcast.shtml - The American bishops offer a daily podcast of Mass readings as well as other podcasts that are both informative and spiritually uplifting.
- Ebreviary - www.ebreviary.com - Daily Liturgy of the Hours.
- Sacred Space - www.sacredspace.ie - Online daily prayer and Scripture from the Irish Jesuits.
- Mass Times - www.Masstimes.org - Times and places of Masses around the world.
- Catholic Prayers - www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/ - Nearly 3,000 Catholic prayers from ancient to modern times.
- Novenas - www.catholicdoors.com/prayers/novena.htm - A list of 182 novenas on virtually every topic imaginable