Web Resources

Bookmark these sites and check back frequently since many are updated daily with new resources.

At Home with Our Faith—an award-winning family spirituality newsletter, serving as a source for everyday wisdom from real Catholic parents.
Center for Ministry Development’s Lifelong Faith Formation Resource Center—offers parish and home activities that nourish faith including parish and home rituals, family enrichment, service ideas, or seasonal activities.
Catholic Parenting—a helpful resource with articles and books focusing on Guiding Teens and Parenting with Grace.
Faith First for Families—this website has a special section for parents that is updated each week to bring you the up-to-date resources and articles.
Growing Up Catholic—an excellent online resource for weekly scripture sharing with the Sunday readings, containing a “question of the week, Sunday readings with background information and a family activity focusing on the readings.
Lifelong Faith—a treasure chest of articles, Christian practices and faith-based resources for parishes and parents alike.
Catholic Parents—supports parents to ensure the authentic teaching of our Catholic faith.
RCL Benziger Resource Center is a great resource with sections like, “Catholic Spirituality for Adults” and “Marian Feasts.” They also have an extensive Saints listing where you can search by name or feast day.

Check out Grace Before Meals for tips on how to make family meals a part of your daily life. (You can also watch a clip of Fr. Leo, founder of "Grace Before Meals," on the Food Network's, "Throwdown with Bobby Flay.") Research shows that regularly eating meals together has a family reduces the likelihood that youth will engage in risky behavior.
ParentFurther.com is a parenting website created by the Search Institute. It offers answers to your “need-to-know-right-now” questions and provides you “with an understanding of what it takes to raise successful kids who will become healthy, responsible, and caring adults.”
Center for Parent/Youth Understanding—committed to building strong families by helping parents understand and respond to the complex world of their children and teens from a distinctively Christian point of view. See the Youth Culture e-Update and CPYU Parent Page.
For Your Marriage is an excellent developed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops designed to strengthen and support marriage.
The Faith Journeys Foundation maintains a helpful website dedicated to supporting teens and young adults from separated and divorced families. The founder, herself an “older child” of divorce, has a short booklet and additional books geared toward helping children work through the feelings and problems they experience during a separation or divorce.