We are fortunate today to have numerous resources to help us to stay informed of Catholic Church current events as well as the issues that are being discussed by Catholics regarding faith and spirituality. You'll find lots of links here!
Helpful magazines/periodicals
- America, the only national Catholic weekly magazine in the United States.
- U.S. Catholic,
dedicated to exploring the wisdom of the Catholic faith tradition and
to applying that faith to the challenges of life in the twenty-first
century.
- St. Anthony Messenger, a monthly magazine with an overview of current events and an exploration of topics of Catholic faith.
- National Catholic Register
e-newsletters that can be delivered right to your e-mail address
- Zenit News Agency:
The World Seen from Rome covers events, offers documents, and explores
issues emanating from the Vatican and around the world.
- Catholic News USA is a service of Paulist Press that brings headline news and stories to your e-mail address Monday through Friday.
- ecatholicism.org,
also has a newsletter that can be delivered to you each Sunday. It
contains interesting resources and other websites of events and groups
in the Catholic world.
- NCCL (National Conference for
Catechetical Leadership, nccl.org). An
invaluable resource is to be a member of NCCL. There are numerous benefits for you
professionally, spiritually, catechetically, and personally. Delivered
to your e-mail every Monday will be a newsletter that, in itself, is
worth more than the price of membership. The newsletter is filled with
resources to keep you up to date with current events as well as many
practical ideas and resources.
- Your own diocesan newspaper. For a list of diocesan newspapers, click here.
Websites that are updated constantly with the current events of the Catholic world
- Catholic News Service
(catholicnews.com), whose mission is to spread the Gospel through
contemporary means of communication and to report the news that affects
Catholics in their everyday lives.
- U.S. Catholic bishops’ website posts the most current news.
- Active Parishioner
is a multi-purpose site with the latest news, daily Mass readings,
prayer, educational programs, resources on Catholic topics, and much
more.
- CatholicTV.com
strives to connect people of faith. It offers faith-filled programming
24 hours a day. One of their features is “Newsbreak,” to keep viewers
up to date with the news from the Vatican and throughout the universal
Church.
- Religion News Services
is another good source for coverage of religious events and news, one
which defines itself as “the only secular news and photo service
devoted to unbiased coverage of religion and ethics—exclusively.” A
recent week covered the death of Oral Roberts; an interview with Jim
Daly, the president of Focus on the Family; and another interview with
Guy Consolmagno, the astronomer at the Vatican Observatory.
Keep up that desire to learn more about your Catholic faith. This is an essential quality to becoming a good catechist.
