Mark P. Shea: Catholic Resources

Catholic Resources

The New American Bible This is the online version of the Bible used in the liturgy in the American Church.

The Vatican Can't get much more Catholic than this!

Catechism of the Catholic Church Your one-stop shopping spot for all your doctrinal needs.

American Chesterton Society People after my own heart!

The Hunger Site An incredibly easy way to practice a corporal work of mercy. "Then the King will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food... for inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.’"-- Matthew 25:34ff.

And when you are done visiting the Hunger Site, go the extra mile and click on yet another incredibly easy way to practice the corporal works of mercy, The Birth Site

New Advent A nice compendium of resources by the dry and hilarious Kevin Knight. Includes the Summa Theologiae online, as well as a bunch of handy source documents and other sites.

Catherine of Siena Institute I am not exaggerating when I say this apostolate understands the Church's theology of the laity better than anyone else in the world. If you want to know how to live out your vocation as a layperson and how that ties in with the Church's teaching on charisms and lay vocation, I cannot recommend these guys highly enough! Check out their wonderful Called and Gifted program. Brilliant!

DominICON Fr. Brendan McAnerny, O.P. is a Dominican with faculties in both the Latin and Byzantine traditions. He writes icons and teaches wonderful classes on the art and spirituality of the icon. In fact, he wrote the Catherine of Siena Institute icon! Take his class. You won't be sorry!

Institute of Applied Biblical Studies Scott Hahn is easily one of the sharpest and most interesting exegetes of Scripture writing today. He is also a terrific teacher, and a dear friend. If you want revolutionize your understanding of both Scripture and the Catholic Faith, he's a fine guide.

Ignatius Press Fine publisher featuring Chesterton, Kreeft and Howard. What else do you need?

Catholic Outlook Gary Hoge, Fairy Godfather of this site, is a great guy with a great site.

Defenders of the Catholic Faith Steve "Jerusalem Jones" Ray: a man, a legend, a way of life.

Greg Krehbiel is a mensch. He thinks outside the box, yet always in faithfulness to the Church and, though I don't always agree with him, I always find him challenging and a straight arrow. His daily commentary on the news is fun. And he runs a nice little group of discussion boards populated by grownups.

St. Joseph Communications A fine Catholic apostolate with all the tapes in the universe of my friends Scott Hahn, Jeff Cavins, and Steve Ray, among others. What's that you ask? Why yes! As a matter of fact, they do sell some of my tapes too! How nice of you to ask!

Catholic Answers Another fine Catholic apostolate devoted to evangelization and apologetics. How's that again? Well, now that you mention it, these guys also sell some of my tapes! And they publish some of my articles. Small woild, ain't it?

Biblical Evidence for Catholicism Dave Armstrong sallies forth to tell the world about the Catholic Faith and meets many colorful characters along the road. Lots of resources. And who could not love a guy with cyber-shrines to Chesterton, Howard and Kreeft?

Zenit All the news the New York Times is unfit to print.

Tom Curran Ministries A fine apostolate devoted to helping Catholics come alive in faith by encountering the truth and love of God revealed by Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church.

The Nazareth Resource Library James Akin, who has forgotten more about Catholic theology than I will ever know continues his quest to put it all down in ASCII for the world's benefit. Check it out!

A lovely priest of my acquaintance, Fr. Phil Bloom, has a nice little site with all sorts of interesting little nuggets!

Also, Cathy Koenig is a Catholic homeschooling mom with an unusual hobby and a basically fun outlook on life.

St. Joseph Covenant Keepers, run by the wonderful Steve Wood, is an apostolate dedicated to nurturing the family and, in particular, to showing men how to be husbands and fathers and not the selfish maroons our culture urges them to be.

Lint Hatcher thinks different. He is the sort of person who shows by his delightfully quirky and idiosyncratic approach to life how orthodoxy revels in creativity.

Speaking of which, his... er, brainchild (along with the great Rod Bennett) was the late lamented Wonder Magazine.

Amy Welborn runs one of the best and most thoughtful Catholic blogsites anywhere in cyberspace. She avoids both the euphemizing Happy Talk of much of the Catholic press yet, as a serious, intelligent, and faithful Catholic, also avoids the stupid conclusions and outright lies about the Catholic faith that so many unbelieving Catholic and non-Catholic journalists on the extremes of Right and Left fall into. Result: a clear-eyed guide for the Perplexed. As Rod Dreher at National Review Online says, "Why would anybody bother with a diocesan newspaper now?"