Creating Eye-Catching Communications
BY DEANNA BARTALINI
Our world has become ever increasingly visual. While the adage “a picture is worth a thousand words” has been around a long...
Teaching Students with Special Needs
BY PAM SCHIFFBAUER
Pope Francis has called the Catholic Church to be a welcoming Church. As we welcome our students into our religious education classes,...
Fr. Mike Schmitz on the Woman Woman movie and a Christian’s call to heroism
Suitable for high school age and older.
15 Ways to Teach Children to Pray
BY NANCY FLANDERS
The single most powerful thing Catholic parents can do for their children is teach them to pray. As catechists, we can also...
Embracing Digital Media
BY ERIC GROTH
Catechesis is the act of passing on the faith. While Wikipedia defines digital as “usually referring to something using digits, particularly binary...
Church Teaching on Love, Human Sexuality, and Theology of the Body (resource list)
There are solid resources for these topics. Here are few we recommend:
The Chastity Project
USCCB's overview and links on Theology of the Body
The Cor Project
The...
Videos that Celebrate Catholicism
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Word on Fire trailer for the Catholicism film series.
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We are Catholic.
Making a Good Confession (video + suggested resources)
This video will be helpful for teens and adults.
Note the suggestions at the end for ways to prepare for confession:
1. Examination of Conscience
2. Use...
Digital Culture and Catechesis: Opportunities and challenges
BY JONATHAN F. SULLIVAN
The task of inculturation seeks to discover that which is good, beautiful, and true in the cultures in which the Church...
How to Approach Mass – a 4min. video with Chris Stefanik
Suggested for middle school, high school, and young adults. This short talk was given at World Youth Day in Krakow, 2016.
Image credit: Screenshot from...
