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Recommended Websites
THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH AND ITS HIERARCHY:
The Vatican
www.vatican.va
The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.cccb.ca
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org
The French Episcopal Conference
www.cef.fr / www.eglise.catholique.fr
The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church (both past and present)
www.catholic-hierarchy.org/
The College of Cardinals
www.gcatholic.com/hierarchy/cardinals.htm
The Vatican City State
www.vaticanstate.va/EN/homepage.htm
BIBLE VERSIONS AND BIBLICAL STUDIES:
Online translations of the Bible:
rockhay.tripod.com/worship/translat.htm
BibleGateway
www.biblegateway.com/
New American Bible (US Conference of Catholic Bishops)
www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.shtml
NRSV (British version)
bible.oremus.org
Contemporary English Version (CEV)
www.biblegateway.com/versions/Contemporary-English-Version-CEV-Bible/
“La Bible de la liturgie” (Official French liturgical version)
www.aelf.org/bible-liturgie
The Text This Week (a wide-ranging collection of commentaries and homilies on the coming Sunday Scriptures)
textweek.com
The Five Gospels Parallels (Four canonical Gospels + Gospel of Thomas; valuable for studying the Gospels side-by-side, noting similarities and differences)
www.utoronto.ca/religion/synopsis/
ENTER (Electronic New Testament Educational Resources) – Father Felix Just, SJ
(also includes much material relevant to the Old Testament, and excellent materials on the Lectionary, past and present)
catholic-resources.org/Bible/index.html
The Grail Psalter online (Athanasius Schaefer)
www.athanasius.com/docs.htm
Dr. Scott Hahn
www.scotthahn.com/
e-Catena: Allusions to the New Testament in the Writings of the Church Fathers
www.earlychristianwritings.com/e-catena/index.html
MORAL THEOLOGY / BIOETHICS:
Catholic Organization for Life and Family:
www.colf.ca/
New Wine, New Wineskins: Young Catholic Moral Theologians (A society for pre-tenured moral theologians based out of Notre Dame)
ycmt-newwineskins.com/x/
Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture
ethicscenter.nd.edu
The Society of Christian Ethics
www.scethics.org
Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church
www.catholicethics.com/
Bioethics.com
bioethics.com/
The Westchester Institute for Ethics & the Human Person
www.westchesterinstitute.net
The Theology of the Body Institute
www.tobinstitute.com
Do No Harm: The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics
www.stemcellresearch.org
The Culture of Life Foundation
www.culture-of-life.org
Pontifical Academy for Life
www.academiavita.org
Ethics Matters: Thoughtful Discussion of Difficult Moral Issues
ethics.sandiego.edu
The BioLogos Foundation (organization studying the sonnection of faith & science)
biologos.org
The Way of the Lord Jesus (by Germain Grisez)
www.twotlj.org
Who Does It Hurt? The Porn Effect
www.whodoesithurt.com
CHURCH HISTORY:
Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils
www.piar.hu/councils/
Paul Halsall’s “Internet History Sourcebooks Project”
www.fordham.edu/halsall/
SOCIAL JUSTICE:
Scarboro Missions: Social Justice and Peace Resources
www.scarboromissions.ca/Justice_and_peace/resources.php
The Center of Concern
www.coc.org
Development and Peace
www.devp.org/
Resources for Catholic Educators: Social Justice and Peace
www.silk.net/RelEd/justice.htm
DOGMATIC THEOLOGY:
Papal Encyclicals online
www.papalencyclicals.net/
Sources of Catholic Dogma (Denzinger)
www.catecheticsonline.com/SourcesofDogma.php
SPIRITUALITY:
Father Ron Rolheiser OMI
www.ronrolheiser.com
The Henri Nouwen Society
www.henrinouwen.org
Thomas Merton Centre for Catholic Spirituality
www.thomasmerton.org
Spirituality Resources for Catholic Educators
www.silk.net/RelEd/spirituality.htm
The Monastery of Bose (Italy) – materials on liturgy, ecumenism and interfaith relations, hagiography, spirituality, etc.
www.monasterodibose.it/index.php/
The Taizé Community (France)
taize.fr/en
PATRISTICS:
The Fathers of the Church collection
www.newadvent.org/fathers/
Early Christian Writings
www.earlychristianwritings.com/
Supplementary Early Christian Writings
www.earlychristianwritings.com/fathers/index.html
PHILOSOPHY:
The Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas
www.newadvent.org/summa/
ECUMENISM AND INTERFAITH RELATIONS:
“Centro Pro Unione” (Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, Rome) – major ecumenical and interfaith documents
www.prounione.urbe.it/index_hi_res.html
World Prayers: a collection of prayers and spirituality resources from various religious traditions – useful for preparing interfaith prayer services
www.worldprayers.org/index.html
The Centre for Jewish-Catholic-Muslim Learning, King’s University College
kings.uwo.ca/ccjl/
Dialogika: Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
www.ccjr.us/dialogika-resources
CATHOLIC AND OTHER RELIGIOUS NEWS:
The Catholic Register (Toronto):
catholicregister.org
Catholic News Service:
www.catholicnews.com/
Zenit Vatican news service (daily e-mail subscriptions available for free)
Zenit.org
Salt + Light TV:
www.saltandlighttv.org/
Catholic World News (at “Catholic Culture”)
www.catholicculture.org/news/
Vatican TV live video streaming (during major events only)
mediastream.vatican.va/mpeg4dsl.sdp
Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN):
ewtn.com/
Whispers in the Loggia (Rocco Palma):
whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/
Vatican Information Service (official Vatican news; daily e-mail subscriptions available for free)
212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/englinde.php#start
To subscribe: mlists.vatican.va/mailman/listinfo/visnews_en
American Catholic Top Catholic News (other news sections available by clicking on the right of the page):
www.americancatholic.org/news/top-catholic-news.aspx
“All Things Catholic”: John L. Allen, Jr. (National Catholic Reporter)
ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Inside the Vatican magazine
www.insidethevatican.com/
My Catholic.com (customizable Catholic news page)
www.mycatholic.com
Ekklesia: An ecumenical Christian news and culture think-thank
www.ekklesia.co.uk/
SIGNIS: World Catholic Association for Communication
www.signis.net
PRIESTLY AND RELIGIOUS VOCATIONS:
Canada’s National Site for Religious Vocations:
vocations.ca/
The Vocations Office of the Diocese of Hamilton, ON:
www.vocationinfo.ca/
Vocation.com
www.vocation.com/
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC ORGANIZATIONS:
The Knights of Columbus
www.kofc.org/index.cfm
Catholic Women’s League of Canada
www.cwl.ca
Catholic Biblical Association of Canada
www.cbac.org
Priests for Life Canada
www.priestsforlifecanada.com/English/index.php
Campaign Life Coalition
www.campaignlifecoalition.com/
THE VIRGIN MARY AND THE SAINTS:
The Mary Page
campus.udayton.edu/mary/
The Saints and Blessed of Canada:
www.cccb.ca/site/content/view/1217/1274/lang,eng/
Saints.SQPN.com (a massive site listing all kinds of information about saints, beati, etc.)
saints.sqpn.com/
“Saint of the Day” (St. Anthony Messenger Press):
www.americancatholic.org/feeds/saintoftheday.xml
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/index.htm
CCCB Episcopal Commission for Liturgy and the Sacraments
www.cccb.ca/site/content/blogcategory/0/1153/lang,eng/
www.cccb.ca/site/eng/commissions-committees-and-aboriginal-council/sectoral-commissions/liturgy-and-the-sacraments-french-sector
The Center for Liturgy, St. Louis University (good liturgical and Biblical materials for each week)
liturgy.slu.edu/
Universalis (the Liturgy of the Hours online)
www.universalis.com/Canada/today.htm
The Roman Breviary (in English and Latin)
www.breviary.net
eBreviary (the Liturgy of the Hours online, in Adobe PDF format):
www.ebreviary.com/
The Divine Office
divineoffice.org/
“PrayTell”: Worship, Wit and Wisdom (St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN)
www.praytellblog.com/
CanticaNova: Liturgical Planning Resources (prayers and music suggestions)
canticanova.com/pln_main.htm
Annus Sacerdotalis: The Official Site of the Year for the Priesthood
www.annussacerdotalis.org
“Musica Sacra”: Church Music Association of America
www.musicasacra.com
“Sacred Space”: Online, interactive daily prayers from the Jesuits of Ireland
sacredspace.ie/
Notre Dame Center for Liturgy
liturgy.nd.edu/
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (particularly good on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass)
www.fssp.org/en/index.htm
USCCB Resources for the (upcoming) New Roman Missal in English – NB: not all applicable to Canada
www.usccb.org/romanmissal/
EnVision Church: Art, Architecture, Liturgy and Spirituality in the Catholic Tradition
www1.georgetown.edu/centers/liturgy/envisionchurch/
Oremus
www.oremus.org/
The New Liturgical Movement
www.newliturgicalmovement.org/
“What Does the Prayer Really Say?” (Father John Zuhlsdorf)
wdtprs.com/blog/
Tridentine Latin Rite Missal Project
mysite.verizon.net/missale/
Traditional Latin Mass propers (in Adobe PDF format for downloading)
www.maternalheart.org/propers.html
Apostleship of Prayer
http://www.apostleshipofprayer.net/default-en.aspx
Madonna House Apostolate (Combermere, Ontario)
www.madonnahouse.org/
Catholic Prayers
www.yenra.com/catholic/prayers/
Catholic Blogs
www.catholicblogs.com/
The blog of Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast SJ:
archbishopterry.blogspot.com/
The blog of Boston’s archbishop, Cardinal Seán O’Malley OFM:
www.cardinalseansblog.org/
“The Gospel in the Digital Age”: The blog of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan:
blog.archny.org/
"The Word on Fire": The blog of Father Robert Barron
www.wordonfire.org
“My Catholic Voice”:
www.mycatholicvoice.com
The 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia (Note the date!)
www.newadvent.org/cathen/
Catholic Resources: Father Felix Just, SJ (lots of background on the Bible, the lectionary, symbols, Catholic teachings, etc.)
catholic-resources.org/
Catholic Online
www.catholic.org
Catholic Canada (a broad collection of Catholic links, focussing on the Canadian Church)
catholicanada.com/web/index.php
Catholic Answers (apologetics and faith education materials)
www.catholic.com/
Catholic Answers “Faith Tracts” (120 pamphlets on commonly-discussed topics)
www.catholic.com/library/faith_tracts.asp
FishEaters: The Whys and Hows of Traditional Catholicism
fisheaters.com
Calculate the Ecclesiastical Calendar for Any Year:
www.smart.net/~mmontes/ec-cal.html
Mass Times for Travellers
www.masstimes.org
Parishes Online (including contact information and Mass times)
www.parishesonline.com/scripts/default.asp
The Christian Catacombs of Rome
www.catacombe.roma.it
PaxBook: The Web site/online store of the Vatican Press (Libreria Editrice Vaticana):
www.paxbook.com/
Resources for Catholic Educators
www.silk.net/RelEd/index.htm
Webcams for St. Peter's Square (other Vatican sites' Webcams are also accessible here)
www.vaticanstate.va/EN/Monuments/webcam/
www.vaticanstate.va/IT/Monumenti/webcam/index?cam=webcam5&testo-Basilica%2odi%20S.Pietro
CatholiCity.com (a broad collection of selected Web links regarding Catholic life and belief)
www.catholicity.com/links/
Catholic Resources on the Internet (a massive list of selected Web links)
users.erols.com/lanat/catholic.htm
Catholics on the Net (another collection of Catholic Web sites)
www.catholic.net/
The Theology Library at Spring Hill College
www.shc.edu/theolibrary
Religion Online: Full Texts by Recognized Religious Scholars
www.religion-online.org
Association of Theological Schools
www.ats.edu/Pages/default.aspx
Catholic Theological Society of America
www.ctsa-online.org/
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities
www.accunet.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
College Theology Society
www.collegetheology.org/
The Ekklesia Project
www.ekklesiaproject.org/
The Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion
www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/home/default.aspx
The Institute for Priestly Formation (at Creighton Univ., Omaha, Nebraska)
www.creighton.edu/ipf/
The Church in the 21st Century Center (Boston College)
www.bc.edu/church21/
Catholic Education Resource Center
www.catholiceducation.org/
Catholic Media Review
catholicmediareview.blogspot.com/
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris:
www.notredamedeparis.fr/rubrique2.html
The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land (guardians of all the Holy Places in the Middle East)
www.custodia.fr/?lang=en
Christian Information Centre (Jerusalem – providing information on Christianity in the Holy Land)
www.cicts.org/CICmainin.htm
“Catholic Underground”: Faith Gone Digital
www.catholicunderground.com/
Some Catholic Podcasts
www.ewtn.com/podcast/
catholicpodcasts.info/ (categorized by subject)
Catholic Clip art
www.silk.net/RelEd/clipart.htm
servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/ (Latin American, often with a liberation emphasis)
servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/indexAgraf.php (for the Sundays of Year A)
servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/indexBgraf.php (for the Sundays of Year B)
servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/indexCgraf.php (for the Sundays of Year C)
“Ship of Fools”: Faith, from a lighter-hearted perspective
ship-of-fools.com/
Cartoon Church
www.cartoonchurch.com/
“Potluck Parish”
www.saintcatherineofsienapreston.org/Links/Potluck_Parish/potluck_parish.html
PRACTICAL HELP FOR ACADEMIC STUDY, RESEARCH AND WRITING:
www.lib.uwo.ca/instruct/calculator
www.owl.english.purdue.edu (click on "Purdue Owl")
www.library.cornell.edu/olinuvis/ref/research/skill.htm
www.leo.stcloudstate.educ/catalogue
webster.commnet.edu/mla
www.how-to-study.com
www.studygs.net
www.aresearchguide.com
www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice
