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Catholic Catechist offers lots of solid resources free. Lectionary-based questions of the week for adults and for youth ia an excellent resource to build faith-sharing discipline. See "Best Catholic Links" for pre-screened and recommended 'best links' for religious edcuation.

The Sadlier text website games, articles useful and good for catechists, parents/guardians, and youth in reled program. Visit Busted Halo is a Catholic culture page for twenty- and thirty-somethings. Coolness for everyone.

Taste a slice of Catholic Culture brought to you by 'The Catholic Answers' people.

In a class of its own, The World Seen From Rome: - ZENIT, an International News Agency whose mission is to provide objective coverage of events, documents and issues emanating from or concerning the Catholic Church. Great archives of papal documents. Source is widely used by worldwide press.

Culture claims, you decide: William Park, a Sarah Lawrence prof recommends the best fifty Catholic movies of all time" (including works by practicing Catholics Hitchcock, Capra and Ford). In 2004, the National Catholic Register and Faith & Family magazine gathered online nominations for films that best celebrate Catholic life. These are movies with specific Catholic references, not simply with Catholic themes.More than 1,000 people voted for their favorites. See the results at pro-Catholic movies.

The Year of St. Paul. Sr. Julia Darrenkamp of the Daughters of St. Paul recommends via videocast the 'best Catholic books for the year of St. Paul'. Check out the work of Sr. Rose Pacette, FSP, director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City CA. Go to Sr. Rose's Movies Journal especially Weds, July 9, 2008.

A couple of news sites (you can also read these and other papers in the Newman Center Library): National Catholic Reporter, online - "the independent news source". Do you read the National Catholic Reporter regularly? Find its Catholic counterpoint, the National Catholic Register. News and more Circle media. Mass, prayer, confession, living guides available for download on their "How to Be a Catholic" page. They also publish Faith & Family Magazine.

A couple of sites re: social justice. JustFaith - considering a plan of action around faith and justice? Check it out. Center of Concern a Catholic peace and justice resource site.

See diocesan notices at diocesan religious education page And, there is down-to-earth, solid resources for your marriage at the USCCB initiative website.

updated 08/10/08

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