Catholic Resources on the Net

For news on the new Papal encyclical Evangelium Vitae (now on-line), see below.

Catechism News: A mass-market paperback edition of the Catechism will be published by Doubleday the week of April 3. It contains the full text (minus the citation index and the color illustrations) and sell for $7.99.

Liturgy and Worship

• Catholic Masses in the CMU vicinity
• Tridentine Latin Mass in Latin and English
• Latin Masses in the US and Canada
• A collection of canticles (edited by Sarah Keefer; at OBI Gopher)
• CANTUS: Database of Divine Office Gregorian Chant (at CUA Gopher)
• Gregorian Chant Home Page (at Princeton)
• A Treasury of Latin Prayers (with English translations and commentary)
• Stations of the Cross (by Jeffrey VanderWilt)
• How to Pray the Rosary; and a longer compilation of rosaries
• Information on Centering Prayer (by Fr. Thomas Keating)

Scripture

• Bible Gateway (at calvin.edu; includes Revised Standard Version)
• Vulgate Bible of St. Jerome (in Latin) (from OBI Gopher)
• King James Bible (with "Apocrypha") (from CCAT Gopher)

Writings from the early Church (1-500)

• Selected writings of the Apostolic Fathers (from UPenn Gopher)
• Documents from Early Church History (with brief descriptions; from ICLnet)
• Nicene Creed (various versions) (from NCSU)
• Confessions of St. Augustine (from Pitt)

Documents of Church Councils

Council of Trent (1545-1563)

• Council of Trent documents (at american.edu)

Vatican II documents (1962-1965)

• Sacrosanctum Concilium (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy)
• Inter Mirifica (The Means of Social Communication)
• Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church)
• Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Eastern Rite Catholic Churches)
• Unitatis Redintegratio (Decree on Ecumenism)
• Christus Dominus (The Pastoral Office of Bishops)
• Perfectae Caritatis (Renewal of Religious Life)
• Optatam Totius (Decree on Priestly Training)
• Gravissimum Educationis (Decree on Christian Education)
• Nostra Aetate (The Church and Non-Christian Religions)
• Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation)
• Apostolicam Actuositatem (The Apostolate of Lay People)
• Dignitatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Freedom)
• Ad Gentes (The Church's Missionary Activity)
• Presbyterorum Ordinis (Ministry and Life of Priests)
• Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the Modern World)

Selected papal encyclicals and pronouncements

On-line papal documents are now stored at American University. Some are HTML, others are plain text. You can

• Browse a list organized by Pope
• Browse a list organized by subject (incomplete)

Classic Catholic-related Books

• Uniformity with God's Will by St. Alphonsus de Liguori (HTML at Pitt)
• Confessions of St. Augustine (from Pitt)
• Enchiridion(Handbook on Faith, Hope, and Love) by St. Augustine (HTML at Pitt)
• On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux (HTML at Pitt)
• The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin by St. Catherine of Siena (HTML at Pitt)
• Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton (HTML at Pitt)
• Spiritual Exercises by St. Ignatius of Loyola (HTML at Pitt)
• Ascent of Mount Carmel by St. John of the Cross (HTML at Pitt)
• Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross (HTML at Pitt)
• The Practice of the Presence of God by Lawrence of the Resurrection
• The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Kempis (HTML at Pitt)

Saints

• Index of saints' biographies (by Ed LoPresti)
• List of Patron Saints (at american.edu)
• Franciscan Calendar of Saints (at american.edu)
• Irish Calendar of Saints (at american.edu)
• Our Lady of Fatima and other apparitions of Jesus and Mary

History and Culture (Miscellaneous)

• Jesuits and the Sciences, 1600-1800 (exhibit at Loyola)
• Vatican Library exhibit (at UNC)
• A short hypertext history of Catholicism in Great Britain (from Brown)
• Tour the Vatican (courtesy christusrex.org)
• Jerusalem Mosaic (at Hebrew University in Israel)
• Tour New Norcia Monastic Settlement (in Australia)
• Shroud of Turin Page (at cais.com)
• Illustrations from the Book of Kells (in Ireland)

Web Pages for Catholic Organizations

• Dioceses:
  • Diocese of Mobile, Alabama (unofficial)
  • Diocese of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (unofficial)
  • Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina
• Catholic Schools, Colleges, and Academic Departments:
  • Allentown College of Saint Frances de Sales
  • Catholic University of America
  • Catholic Theology Faculty in Germany (in German)
  • Catholic University of America
  • College of the Holy Cross
  • Duquesne University
  • Jesuit Colleges Server (at Loyola University Chicago)
  • University of Graz (Austria): Faculty for Catholic Theology
  • University of Innsbruck (Austria): Faculty for Catholic Theology
• Newman Centers and Clubs (and campus ministries):
  • Caltech Newman Center
  • CMU Newman Club
  • Dundee University Catholic Society
  • Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Association
  • MIT Tech Catholic Community
  • Penn Newman Council
  • Stanford Newman Club
  • Williams Newman Association
• Religious Orders:
  • Dominican Web (in Norway)
  • Franciscan Web (at American University)
  • Jesuit Colleges Server (at Loyola University Chicago)

Other sources for Catholic information

• Free Catholics Web (at American University)
• bit.listserv.catholic newsgroup
• Mailing Lists (courtesy american.edu)
• Catholic Religious Education on the WWW (at microserve.net)
• Wiretap collection of Catholic source documents (not updated often)
• Zoltan Abraham's Catholic collection
• James Tucker's Religious Resources Page
• AlaPadre's Catholic Corner (at wsnet.com)

Related Resources of possible interest to Catholics

• General Christianity:
  • Christian WWW Resource List (by Simon Damberger at Colorado)
  • Not Just Bibles (pointers to various Christian net-resources)
  • soc.religion.christian newsgroup and Web site (at Rutgers)
  • soc.religion.christian.bible-study newsgroup and Web server (at spss.com)
  • The Old Catholic Homepage (in Ireland)
  • The Orthodox Christian Page in America (at Berkeley)
• Abortion / Pro-Life Issues:
  • Pro-Life Newsletter (at pitt.edu)
  • LifeLinks (at Indiana)
• Commercial Webs with possible Catholic interest