911 for Women. U.S. crisis lines for victims of rape, domestic violence, and sexual harassment.

Alcoholics Anonymous

• Alcoholics Anonymous. Official site. English, Spanish, and French.

• The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. Basis for 12-step programs.

The Alphabet: American Sign Language. [3K text, 61K graphics].

Bridges Across the Divide. An outgrowth of a PFLAG (see below) mailing list, Bridges Across the Divide seeks reconciliation between the Church and gays and lesbians, and between Christians who disagree about homosexuality. Painful reading.

Alejandro W. Bunge Martínez, Derecho canónico en la red: Canon Law in the Net. In Spanish. Bunge is professor of canon law at Universidad Santa María de los Buenos Aires. [8K text, 73K graphics].

Walter J. Burghardt, Preaching the Just Word: Problem, Preacher, Project (March 1991).

Canon Law Society of America.

Catholic Prayers. Big collection of popular traditional prayers.

Center for Rural Church Leadership. Part of CHASSIE (see below). Articles designed to help ordained and lay ministers in rural settings.

Central Minnesota Task Force on Battered Women. The parent organization of Anna Marie's, the local shelter for battered women. [19K text, 44K graphics].

Christian Recovery International. A safe place for Christians recovering from abuse or addiction. Membership organization. All denominations welcome. CRI's web site features tips on finding help, resources for pastors and counselors, and a "library" of articles, Bible studies, and devotionals. Newly added: Spanish-language resources.

Church and Rural Social Science Information Exchange (CHASSIE). Ecumenical, interdisciplinary resources for rural ministry.

Codex Iuris Canonici (1983). The canon law currently in effect for the Latin (or "Roman") Rite of the Catholic Church. The Eastern rites have their own canon law.

• Code of Canon Law. English translation.

• Codex des Kanonischen Rechtes. German translation. Each chapter in its own file. With concordances and word frequency lists.

• Codex Iuris Canonici, French translation.

• Codex Iuris Canonici, in Latin.

• Codice di Diritto Canonico. In Italian. This version corrected by IntraText. Each chapter in its own file. With concordances and word frequency lists.

• Código de Derecho Canónico. Spanish translation.

Congregation for Clergy

• Instrucción sobre algunas cuestiones acerca de la colaboración de los fieles laicos en el sagrado ministerio de los sacerdotes (1997). [68K text, 12K graphics].

• Instruction On Certain Questions Regarding the Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priest (1997). [75K text, 28K graphics].

Alban J. Dachauer, The Rural Life Prayerbook (1956). 394K plain text file. Prayers and blessings, especially for farmers, put out by the Rural Life office.

Dealing with Grief. Kubler-Ross's stages applied to survivors. Includes some prayers from Pastoral Care of the Sick.

Digital Liturgy. Practical, aimed at parish ministers. Note to Netscape users: Do not try to go to the index page. Doing so causes a general protection fault, a core dump, and then shuts down your browser.

Dignity/USA. Catholic organization for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and their friends.

Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Information on the local Catholic diocese and its ministries. Somewhat hostile to text browsers, and too wide for smaller monitors.

Carolyn Dudas, Small Faith Communities. Conference notices, bibliographies, links.

Arnold Erickson, The Other Side of the Wall (Prison Law Page). [20K text, 90K graphics]. Lots of links for issues surrounding criminal justice, prisons, and the death penalty. Erickson is a staff attorney at Prison Law Office, a nonprofit offering legal aid to California prisoners.

Richard J. Fairchild, Sermons and Sermon-Lectionary Resources. The best site I've seen for preachers and homilists. Ecumenical, wide range of approaches. Some full-text sermons (classics or new), clipart, music suggestions, e-mail discussion list, other reference materials. The Rev. Fairchild is a minister in the United Church of Canada.

Guide to Domestic Violence Resources. Features an 11-part series (over 60 articles) "Shattered Love, Broken Lives,&34; originally published in 1995 by the New Bedford Standard-Times. Also information on a domestic violence e-mail list.

Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1522-1548)

• Ejercicios espirituales, texto autógrafo, Spanish. [185K].

• Spiritual Exercises, English translation.

Michael Kissane

• Discernment. Deals largely with discerning a possible vocation to a religious order. Fr. Kissane is vocation director for the St. Elias Province of Carmelite (O.Carm.) men.

• Spiritual Direction and Discernment. Also primarily for those thinking of joining a religious order.

• The Way of Discernment. Wider scope than his other essays above.

Krysallis. Free homiletic service in English and Spanish. Sermons are rooted in liberation theology.

Lao Family Community of Minnesota. Many Hmong refugees have settled in Minnesota, with the greatest concentration in the St. Paul area. If your ministry includes Hmong people, you may find this nonprofit mutual assistance association's site useful.

Please see the Liturgical Studies section.

Roger Mahony, "Gather Faithfully Together": A Guide for Sunday Mass (1997). [167K]. Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles shares his vision of Sunday Eucharist in the parish. Long. Must reading for parish ministers.

Marriage Encounter

• National Marriage Encounter. Includes geographical directory.

• Worldwide Marriage Encounter. Includes directory by denomination and geography. Information in English and Spanish.

Raúl Matienzo, Sistema Integral de Nueva Evangelización. [4K text, 199K graphics]. A vision of Catholic parishes as evangelizing communities. Available in Spanish, and in English translation.

Carl McColman, Spiritual Formation Online. Brief original essays dealing with spiritual formation, contemplative prayer, and spiritual direction.

NCCB/USCC

• Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers (1997).

• Economic Justice for All (1986). [328K].

• Pastoral Statement for Catholics on Biblical Fundamentalism (1987). Appears to be aimed primarily at catechists and pastoral ministers.

Paradise of the Desert Fathers (4th C.). Also known as Lives of the Desert Fathers. Excerpts from Norman Russell's translation.

Parish Registry System. Free Windows-based software for parish recordkeeping.

People for Peace, Conflict Resolution 101. [5K text, 78K graphics]. Includes some pages just for kids.

PFLAG. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays. [17K text, 40K graphics]. Too wide for smaller monitors or MSN TV.

Ormonde Plater, Prayers of the People. Model general intercessions, based on the Episcopal Church calendar and the Revised Common Lectionary. With musical settings. Posted one week in advance. Dr. Plater is an archdeacon in the Episcopal Church.

Articles from the ELCIC's Pneuma. On spiritual direction. [26K text, 25K graphics].

Retreat movements

• Handicapped Encounter Christ. Page for the international ministry to the disabled is a labor of love by Edward Curtis.

• Mouvement des Cursillos Francophones. [11K text, 62K graphics, 9K MIDI]. FAQ, links, and a worldwide directory. Aimed at French-speaking people, but I also spotted links to Cursillos conducted in English, Spanish, Hungarian, and Korean, and to related movements in several Christian denominations.

• National Cursillo Center. FAQ, as well as upcoming events in the United States and contact information. In English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. Site uses a Java applet, but you're not missing anything if you don't have Java enabled--other than bandwidth and crashing browsers.

• TEC Ring. Web ring for Teens Encounter Christ retreat sites.

Aaron Rittmaster, Tzedakah Web. Social justice, Jewish perspective. This page concentrates especially on homelessness, but see also his links page for other issues.

Peggy Roske, Parish Nursing. Small annotated directory. Health care in the context of the local church. Author is a reference librarian at Clemens and Alcuin Libraries, and is the Libraries' liaison to the Nursing Department at the College of St. Benedict and St. John's University.

Juanita R. Ryan, Seeing God in New Ways: Recovery from Distorted Images of God.

Sayings of the Desert Fathers (4th C.). Excerpts.

Tom Scharbach, Catholic RCIA Graphics. [8K text, 58K graphics]. Small collection of clipart. Free for non-commercial use.

Teresa of Avila, Interior Castle (1577)

• Castillo Interior. O Las Moradas. Critical edition. Edited by Tomás Álvarez. In HTML. Each "mansion" in its own file, but lacks 6.1-4. With an introduction and notes.

• Interior Castle. E. Allison Peers translation. Full text and notes, concordances, word lists.

• Las Moradas (Castillo Interior). Critical edition. Edited by Tomás Álvarez. In PDF. [256K].

John Veltri

• Orientations (1993). Selections from book. An online compilation of "helps for prayer." Ignatian perspective.

• Week of Directed Prayer in a Church Setting. [118K]. How to organize a group retreat or mission on a congregational level.

The Vestment Exchange. This is not a place to swap, but rather a clearinghouse for donations of old vestments, sacred vessels, and other liturgical appointments to parishes, missions, and ministers who cannot afford them. Ecumenical.

Catechism of the Catholic Church. Officially dated 1992, copyrighted 1993. French appeared first. Afterwards back-translated into Latin for the editio typica, and translated into various languages. The English version in particular was problematic. Corrections to the editio typica were promulgated in 1997.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, at Christus Rex. Has its own search engine which allows searching by keyword, exact phrase, or paragraph number. Notes at the end of each chapter.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, at USCCB. 2nd ed. Incorporates the corrections made in 1997. Each chapter in its own file. Notes are hyperlinked.

• Catechism of the Catholic Church, at St. Charles Borromeo. American translation. Searchable version incorporates the corrections made in 1997. Notes at the end of each article.

Catholic Scholars Online. Resources for Catholic home schooling.

Congregation for Clergy

• Directorium catechisticum generale (1997)

  • General Directory for Catechesis. 458K text, 28K graphics, and you may not be able to start reading the text itself until the entire document has come in.

• General Catechetical Directory (1971). [197K text, 1K graphics].

Gerald Darring, Theology Library: Education. Directory of Internet resources for Catholic educators. Official documents first, selected other directories last. Darring teaches high school religion.

Scott Fabian

• Catholic Youth Ministry on the WWW. Small list of links. Fabian has an MRE, and serves as director of religious formation at St. Luke's Church, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

• Religious Education on the WWW for Catholics. Another small list of links.

Josh Hunt, Good Question! [54K text, 15K graphics, 12K Flash]. Sunday School lessons. For adults. Would also be helpful in leading Bible study groups. Hunt has an M.Div., and was minister of education for eleven years at Calvary Baptist Church, Las Cruces, New Mexico.

John Paul II, Catechesi Tradendae (1979)

• Catechesi Tradendae, English translation. 133K text, 28K graphics; you may not be able to see any of the text itself until the whole page has come in.

Kids' Chronicle. Bible stories aimed at children ages 6-12. From the Rochester diocesan newspaper. With lots of bright graphics. Updated weekly. Too wide for smaller monitors, older Macs, and MSN TV. Byte size varies; on 8 January 2004, it was 57K text, 59K graphics.

National Catholic Educational Association. [26K text, 62K graphics]. Membership organization for teachers and administrators in parochial and diocesan K-12 schools, and seminary rectors.

RelEd.org. Two low-traffic message boards: one on using RCIA for children (also, mailing list for child catechumenate), and one for anyone involved in catechesis. Also offers an e-mail discussion list for religious education administrators.

Aaron Rittmaster, Hebrew Prophets Web. Jewish perspective, for middle school students.