Websites and Web Ministries

Catholic Educator's Resource Center

This site has a variety of articles designed to give background information to those working in religious education.
www.catholiceducation.org/index.html

Catholic Youth Online

From the Website: Consider these pages as an open invitation for you, the young church, to express your concerns, curiosity, creativity and deep faith with each other and the adult community. We hope that these sections, dedicated to the you, will be an informative, fun and interactive partnership between you and caring adults who share your common belief, as Catholics, in Jesus Christ. We are completely open and invite your ideas and constructive criticisms that will make and keep this site fresh and engaging.
www.youmagazine.com

Disciples Now

Disciples Now is a web-based ministry for youth focused on the traditions, life, and mission of the Catholic faith community. As an informational resource, Disciples Now provides opportunities to learn, to discuss, and to celebrate the challenges of discipleship in the context of daily life. Disciples Now's focus is Catholic adolescents in grades 6 to 12 throughout the United States.
Contact: DISCIPLES NOW MINISTRIES, INC.
P.O. Box 1063, Millersville, MD 21108-4063
Telephone 443.749.4943 Fax 443.645.0212
www.disciplesnow.com

Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ)

The Institute for Peace and Justice (IPJ) is an independent, interfaith, not-for-profit organization that creates resources, provides learning experiences, and advocates publicly for alternatives to violence and injustice at the individual, family, community, institutional and global levels. IPJ was founded in 1970 by Dr. James McGinnis as a Peace Studies program at St. Louis University. In 1975, it became an interfaith center assisting families, educational and religious leaders and institutions, children and youth, and whole communities.
www.ipj-ppj.org

National Study of Youth & Religion

From the website: The National Study of Youth and Religion, funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor of Sociology, is based at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This site gathers research and resources on youth and religion. Many of their papers and results are available online and in downloadble PDFs.
www.youthandreligion.org

Online Searchable Catechism

Both of these sites offer the Catechism of the Catholic Church in searchable format. You can search by keywords or phrases.
www.christusrex.org/www2/kerygma/ccc/searchcat.html
www.scborromeo.org/ccc.htm

Resources for Catholic Educators

Another catch-all site for adults working with youth. The site has a searchable Catechism, searchable Bible, middle school justice links, and much more.
www.silk.net/RelEd/

Tomorrow's Present

The Tomorrow's Present is a website from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee on Catholic youth leadership training. It features Catholic, as well as interfaith and ecumenical programs; it also includes a bilingual program (Spanish and English). There are seven leadership training resources for
sale, including "Middle School & Junior High Catholic Leadership Youth
Forum." The website provides a "slide show" version (in English and in
Spanish) of the "Transformational Ministry" model, which stresses the
importance of four core experiences (learning, prayer, leadership and
service) and two core relationships (mentoring adults and positive peers).
www.tomorrowspresent.org

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)

The site includes links to all the USCCB Departments, USCCB publishing bookstore daily mass readings, online version of the Catholic Catechism, online version of the New American Bible, movie and family video reviews, links to U.S. Catholic dioceses by state, an excellent search engine, child and youth protection resources and much more.
www.usccb.org

YouthMinistry.com

From the website: Welcome to GROUP Magazine's website for youth leaders. We've got almost everything you'll probably ever need to resource your ministry. We're passionate about helping you make a difference in the lives of young people. Basically, we'd like to be your cyber-sidekick more like Scully than Gilligan.
www.youthministry.com