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Apologetics Toolkit Website


This well organized online database contains a variety of talking points of the Catholic faith, as well as direct links to the supporting scripture.

Ascension Bible & Catechism App


 

The Ascension App Includes:

• The full text of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible with color coding interwoven throughout so you can immediately recognize where you are in the story of salvation history.

• The full text of the Catechism of the Catholic Church with The Foundations of Faith color-coding built in.

• Every episode of Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz for easy access and cross-referencing with your reading plan and Scripture.

• Every released episode of the Catechism in a Year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz so you can easily stay on top of your daily readings.

• Summaries, the exact wording of Fr. Mike’s daily prayers, and extra content for every single episode of Bible in a Year.

• Over 1,000 commonly asked questions about the Bible with answers right in the text from experts like Fr. Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, and others.

• An interactive reading plan for both podcasts that tracks your progress.

• Notes and bookmarks so you can quickly pick up where you left off and write down your reflections and prayers along the way.

CATECHISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

 

The Catechism contains the essential and fundamental content of the Catholic faith in a complete and summary way. It presents what Catholics throughout the world believe in common. It presents these truths in a way that facilitates their understanding.

The Catechism presents Catholic doctrine within the context of the Church's history and tradition. Frequent references to Sacred Scripture, the writings of the Fathers, the lives and writings of the saints, conciliar and papal documents and liturgical texts enrich the Catechism in a way that is both inviting and challenging. There are over three thousand footnotes in the Catechism.

Catholic Answers Website

Catholic Answers is a media ministry that serves Christ by explaining and defending the Catholic faith. We help Catholics grow in their faith, we bring former Catholics home, and we lead non-Catholics into the fullness of the truth.

Catholic Answers works each day to ensure our content is faithful to the Magisterium. Our staff apologists have decades of practice in apologetics, and several hold advanced degrees in theology and philosophy. We maintain a broad list of associates (clergy and laymen) who are experts in the fields of liturgy, history, bioethics, theology, philosophy, canon law, and more. We have close friendships with members of the Church hierarchy across the United States and in Rome. An independent registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, Catholic Answers is listed in the Official Catholic Directory and is recognized as an apostolate in good standing by the Diocese of San Diego, where our main office is located.

LIST OF CATHOLIC PRAYERS

Here is an enourmous list (one hundred and four if my math checks out) of Catholic prayers compiled by The Knights Of The Holy Eucharist. Each page has a brief bit of history and information about said prayer as well.

CATHOLIC PRODUCTIONS


Catholic Productions' YouTube channel offers a variety of Biblical study videos covering a variety of topics
such as explaining the Sunday Mass Readings, explaining parts of the Bible thematically
(e.g., the Eucharist, the Old Testament, the Book of Hebrews, the origin of the Bible, Mary, etc.)

Compass

Compass, a project spearheaded by the Archdiocese of Detroit's Department of Evangelization and Missionary Discipleship, is an online search guide aimed to assist parents who have questions about the Church’s stance on issues and to help parents guide conversations with their school-aged children.

Diocese Of Scranton Website

Our Mission:

We, the Catholic community of the Diocese of Scranton, are called through Baptism to imitate the servant leadership of Jesus Christ. In union with our Holy Father, the Pope, we proclaim the Gospel faithfully, celebrate the sacraments joyfully, and boldly promote life, justice and peace in northeastern and northcentral Pennsylvania.

Our diocese was founded in 1868, and encompasses the counties of Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Pike, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, Wayne, and Wyoming.

Bishop Joseph Bambera serves as the tenth Bishop of Scranton.  He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, ordained, and installed as bishop in 2010.

The Cathedral of Saint Peter is the Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton. The Cathedral has been serving the faithful of the diocese and beyond since 1853.  For more information, visit the Cathedral’s website, www.stpeterscathedral.org

The 118 parishes of the Diocese enjoy the membership of over 249,000 parishioners, and over 14,500 children from pre-school through high school, attend our 19 schools.  For more information and statistics, visit annualappeal.org/fast_facts/

We welcome you to join our community, and to use our Find a Parish tool if you are looking for a spiritual home in our Diocese!

Our Chancery is located at 300 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton, PA, 18503, and is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  We can be reached by phone at 570-207-2238.

Divine Office mission is to evangelize and to nurture our Catholic relationship with God by designing and offering contents, software products, development and design services for the Catholic community.

On August 6th 2006 our first Catholic website and podcast series went live and two years later DivineOffice.org website was launched.

What started as a mustard seed of an apostolate is blossoming and making a real change in the world.

In 2011 and 2012 the Liturgy of the Hours produced by this ministry was recognized as the best Catholic podcast, website and mobile app. Three Divine Office mobile apps were nominated as Best Catholic Mobile App in the About.com Readers’ Choice Awards 2012 edition.

The Divine Office prayer community spans through new media, social media, mobile apps and radio stations. Community members from all around the world gather in prayer through our mobile apps as well as through our free podcast and DivineOffice.org website.

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FORMED

FORMED provides the very best Catholic content from more than 60 organizations to help parishes, families and individuals explore their faith anywhere. Supporting thousands of movies, children’s programs, ebooks, audio, parish programs and studies direct to your browser, mobile or connected device.

G.I.R.M.


The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (hereafter, GIRM), is an official document of the Church explaining how the Eucharist is to be celebrated in the Roman Rite. It is called the editio tertia because it is the third edition since its promulgation at the Second Vatican Council.

These texts contain riches which have preserved and expressed the faith and experience of the People of God over its two-thousand-year history. Equally important for a correct ars celebrandi is an attentiveness to the various kinds of language that the liturgy employs: words and music, gestures and silence, movement, the liturgical colors of the vestments. By its very nature the liturgy operates on different levels of communication which enable it to engage the whole human person. - Pope Benedict XVI

GODSPLAINING




A podcast featuring contemplative preachers and their contemporary age.

Considering topics philosophical, theological, cultural, and beyond, Godsplaining presents ideas from the Church’s tradition and brings them to bear on our lives’ most urgent questions. Each week, join the Dominican friars as they muse on all things Catholic.

HALLOW

Hallow is the #1 app for Catholic prayer and meditation.

Find peace, reflect on your day, and sleep soundly every night with prayers, meditations, and Catholic hymns. With over 3,000 sessions in the app, Hallow guides people to deepen their relationships with God through audio-guided prayer and music.

The app also features several seasonal challenges each year for users to pray together and contemplate as a community.

The Hallow app offers:
Daily Rosary
Daily Gospel
Daily Examen
Lectio Divina
Praylists for hope, gratitude, and other topics
Novenas
Litanies
Bible Stories & More

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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Founded on the principles of charity, unity and fraternity, the Knights of Columbus was established in 1882 by Father Michael J. McGivney, assistant pastor of St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Conn., and a group of parishioners. Their intent? To bring financial aid and assistance to the sick, disabled and needy members and their families.

LAUDATE



 

Laudate includes many awesome resources such as an interactive Rosary, Daily Readings, the Liturgy of the Hours, the Roman Missal changes, and the NAB and Douay-Rheims versions of the bible – all in a simple to navigate layout. But what makes this app shine for me is the HUGE selection of prayers – in both Latin and English!

They are sorted into intuitive groups such as the “Marian Group” and “Mass Group” and you can even create your own folder of “My Prayers” to easily access your favorites. The font size and color scheme are customizable, and there are six language options. The developers are also constantly updating this app, providing a huge selection of up to date, bug-free content.

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Link To Ascension Press Page


How familiar are you with the twenty-six Church-approved Marian Apparitions?

Ascension Press has compiled information on all of the Marian apparitions within the Catholic Church to make this ultimate guide.  

Do you want to:

If so, you came to the right place!

Mass Times Website



About the Mass Times Trust and Masstimes.org

The purpose of the MassTimes ministry is to help Catholics get to Mass by helping them find churches and worship times worldwide. We do this by hosting and sharing the most comprehensive database of Catholic churches and worship times in existence. Dioceses, parishes, and many volunteers help us keep the database current. We also host the masstimes.org website and iOS/Android apps that our visitors use to search for churches.

It can be difficult for Catholics to find a Mass when traveling or when it is not practical to attend their regular parishes. It is not always easy to find the right diocesan or parish websites. MassTimes makes it much easier to search for a Mass by presenting all the possibilities in a geographical area on one page. We provide worship times, church locations, contact information, website links and maps. There are 116,000 churches in 201 countries/territories, so it is a daunting task to keep all the information current.

Since MassTimes began its ministry we have performed millions of church lookups for visitors to our service. MassTimes cooperates with parishes, dioceses and bishops' councils and conferences to assemble the information about the churches. MassTimes only lists Catholic churches that are on diocesan web sites or authenticated by information provided by a diocese or religious order.

The Mass Times Trust is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in the United States.  The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan operates it as a free service to all who are interested in finding a church for Mass or Reconciliation.  The diocese does not provide funding, though: Masstimes.org relies on donations from those who use the service.

NATIONAL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTER



 

NCBC education, guidance, and resources measurably help bishops and Catholic health care ministries to strengthen the integrity and witness of the Church’s healing ministry;

Catholics and all people of good will effectively draw on the light and life of Jesus Christ and the Catholic moral tradition in addressing ethical challenges in health care and biomedical research;

And the integral understanding of the human person underlying the teachings of the Catholic Church on respect for human life and dignity is better understood and more widely embraced in America and worldwide.

Pray More Novenas

Pray More Novenas was created to help you pray by sending you each novena prayer for 9 days. It has transformed the prayer life of thousands of people by bringing them closer to God in a consistent way.

We pray that this free service will bless you in the same way!

The word novena is taken from “novem,” the Latin word for nine. A novena is made up of nine days of prayer and meditation usually to ask God for special prayer requests or petitions. Novenas are often used to ask specific saints to pray for us. The Saint Jude Novena, for example, is prayed to ask Saint Jude to intercede on behalf of a request that seems especially dire.

Novenas are an ancient tradition that goes back to the days of the Apostles. Jesus told His disciples to pray together after His ascension into heaven, so they went to an upper room along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, (Acts 1:14) and joined constantly in prayer for nine days. These nine days of constant prayer by the Apostles at the direction of Jesus led up to Pentecost. This is when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples as “tongues of fire” (Acts 2:1-4). This pattern of 9 days of prayer is the basis the novenas we pray today.

Thus, the novena is an imitation of the Lord’s command to the Apostles when they prayed for 9 days in anticipation of the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Read more at: https://www.praymorenovenas.com/faqs

Rachel's Vinyard



Rachel's Vineyard is a safe place to renew, rebuild and redeem hearts broken by abortion. Weekend retreats offer you a supportive, confidential and non-judgmental environment where women and men can express, release and reconcile painful post-abortive emotions to begin the process of restoration, renewal and healing.

Rosario

The 1st living rosary application!

1 – Create a prayer group with 4 people
2 – every day, each person receives a mystery of the rosary and takes 5 minutes in their day to meditate on it by reciting a decade.
3 – At the end of the day, the group will have meditated on the 5 mysteries of the day, thus completing an entire rosary.

That’s the living rosary!

Stay motivated and supported through a union of prayer with your loved ones

Create or join a living rosary with 4 of your loved ones. If each of you takes 5 minutes to recite a decade per day, together, you complete a daily rosary.
You thus become a link in a chain of prayer: you can count on the group to support you, and the group counts on you.

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SUMMA THEOLOGICA



The Summa Theologiae or Summa Theologica (transl. 'Summary of Theology'), often referred to simply as the Summa, is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), a scholastic theologian and Doctor of the Church. It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church, intended to be an instructional guide for theology students, including seminarians and the literate laity. Presenting the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West, topics of the Summa follow the following cycle: God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God.

Although unfinished, it is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." Moreover, the Summa remains Aquinas' "most perfect work, the fruit of his mature years, in which the thought of his whole life is condensed."Among non-scholars, the Summa is perhaps most famous for its five arguments for the existence of God, which are known as the "five ways" (Latin: quinque viae). The five ways, however, occupy only one of the Summa's 3,125 articles.

THEOLOGY OF THE BODY

As Saint John Paul II’s masterwork, the Theology of the Body (TOB) provides beautiful and compelling answers to the deepest questions we all ask ourselves: Who am I? Why am I here? How can I be happy? Why do I experience all these deep longings in my body and soul and what am I to do with them? What is my ultimate destiny and how do I get there?

In the midst of the profound sexual crisis that is wreaking havoc in both the secular world and in the Church, the TOB offers the hope of healing and restoration we all so desperately need, enabling everyone to rediscover not only the meaning of our creation as male and female, but through that, “the meaning of the whole of existence, the meaning of life” (TOB 46:6).

USCCB

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is an assembly of the hierarchy of the United States and the U.S. Virgin Islands who jointly exercise certain pastoral functions on behalf of the Christian faithful of the United States. The purpose of the Conference is to promote the greater good which the Church offers humankind, especially through forms and programs of the apostolate fittingly adapted to the circumstances of time and place. This purpose is drawn from the universal law of the Church and applies to the episcopal conferences which are established all over the world for the same purpose.