Diocese website
Diocesan Training
https://www.virtusonline.org/
- VIRTUS is the brand name that identifies best practices programs designed to help prevent wrongdoing and promote "rightdoing" within religious organizations. The VIRTUS programs empower organizations and people to better control risk and improve the lives of all those who interact with the Church.
Youth Communication Tools
www.facebook.com
- Online database of both college and high school students, along with anyone who wants to join various networks, that has enables opportunities to post comments to people, send messages, invite friends, create events, join groups, post pictures and video, etc. Page access is limited to people you accept as "friends"
- An online "place for friends" where users can post information and pictures as well as sending other users messages. Anyone is able to access these pages unless you make your pages private.
- The #1 online video watching site where anyone can access homemade videos ranging from humor to political to very strange.
- The family-friendly Christian Social Network. Users can add videos, music, and photos.
- This is a great resource! It gives information on both grade school and high school youth ministry/religious education. It also gives complete downloadable resources on baptism, acceptance, divorce and many other topics. The information includes appropriate bible verses, prayers, discussion topics and activities.
- ymcentral is a Catholic youth ministry website full of resources to aid in all areas of youth ministry. It gives you a clear outline of all the resources they have, and ideas for how to use them!
- This site is not completed yet, but it still has some great resources under Popular Resources with information on retreats, liturgy planning guides, bible studies and conference talks.
- This is a fun site with examples of teens acting in society, skit examples, popular movie discussions, and links to other great YM sites.
- Great site for Catholic Church teachings and writings, a little hard to maneuver, but where better to get information then from the Church Magisterium directly?
- Amazing site on chastity, with saint examples, quotes, Q&A, research on litanies, media, birth control, Church documents and sexual ethics,
- Through discussions that reveal the gospel's presence or absence in popular culture, this websites helps young people develop a biblical filter that shines the light of Jesus' truth on media messages, encourages them to live authentically at school and church, and engages the Holy Spirit's discernment in their lives. Takes into account movies, music, news, T.V. and video games.
- Focused on bringing in Net Ministries to lead retreats for the youth group. Net Ministries is focused on proclaiming the Gospel of Christ through a personal witness of faith, inviting young people to live for Christ, forming young people in Christian character through the study and practice of our faith and equipping youth workers and young adults with the ministry skills needed for evangelization
- A Catholic encyclopedia with any information you could want at your fingertips. Also with information available on the Summa, Church Fathers, and the Bible.
- United States Council of Catholic Bishops holds many links to online Catholic bibles, catechisms, social justice issues, family topics and laity issues.
- “An initiative aimed at fostering the virtue of chastity by building awareness of the effects of pornography in society, offering support and healing for those harmed by it, and education Catholics on what they can do to protect their families from its influence.”
- This site “explains what the media is doing to our children and youth and what we can do about it”. Sponsored by the National Institute on Media and the Family.
- The website for the Center for Parent and Youth Understanding has links, resources, media review, etc. on youth culture and how to foster an understanding of generation y.