Consolidated Electronic Catholic Resources

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cathedralschooljc.com/catechesis.html

This link contains a lecture series delivered by Fr. Joseph Shetler, STL., the associate pastor of St. Joseph Cathedral, and Mr. Spencer Allen, the principal of the parish school. These talks present an overview of the various teachings and practices of the Catholic faith.

Scripture and Tradition (Mr. Allen)
Where the Bible comes from and how we know it’s true, and the other way God has revealed Himself to mankind.

Basics of Catholic Theology (Fr. Shetler)
How Catholics talk about faith and morals, theological terms and categories, what theology is and what its sources are.

Infallibility of the Church and Papacy (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
What it means and what it doesn’t mean to be infallible, who is infallible, when, and how.

Responding to Scandal (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo case, and Pius XII and the Nazis; how to respond to challenges like these.

Original Sin and Original Justice (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
How our first parents were created, what the fall means, and how it affects all of us.

Priesthood (Fr. Shetler)
What priesthood is in general, the nature of the Christian priesthood, and why it is reserved to men.

Baptism and Salvation (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
What Baptism is, where it comes from, what it accomplishes, and why it is necessary.

Grace, Faith and Works, and Salvation (Mr. Allen)
How Protestants and Catholics believe very different things about how we are saved and what being saved really means.

Theology of the Body (Mr. Allen)
How our understanding our understanding of how God created us can bring us to a greater understanding of God, himself, as well as help us to connect more fully with the body of Christ.

Eucharist and the Sacrifice of the Mass (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
What transubstantiation is, why its important, and how to understand it properly.

Basics of Morality and Sexual Ethics (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
What constitutes the morality of a human act, different kinds of sin, and how sexual ethics fits into these basics of Catholic moral thought.

Penance, Confession, and Indulgences (Mr. Allen)
Why confession to a priest is necessary for the remission of sins, and how penance helps to prepare us for eternal glory.

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory (Mr. Allen and Fr. Shetler)
What happens when we die: death, the particular jugdment, heaven, hell, purgatory, and the general judgment.
 
I hope this isn’t against forum rules or anything (although it may qualify as shameless self-promotion ;)), but I recently created a site that I hope is helpful.

catechesisofthepopes.wikispaces.com/

I have thematically organized links to the major catechetical series of John Paul II’s and Benedict XVI’s Wednesday General Audiences. It starts with JPII’s Theology of the Body and goes up through Benedict XVI’s current catechesis on St. Paul.

My intention here is really not self-promotion, but I think this could be a helpful site. The Vatican website is great, but it is sometime difficult to find exactly what you’re looking for. That’s the whole reason I created the site.

So stop and by and let me know what you think.

I should note that I do not make any money from the google ads that appear on that site. I would have to pay to have them removed, which I, unfortunately, cannot do at the moment.

If this somehow violates forum rules by highlighting a site I created, I apologize. Feel free to delete and/or edit this post accordingly!
 
The Diocese of Galveston & Huston has a downloadable audio Bible available on its website, can be burned to CD or loaded onto an MP3 player. Several languages and Bible versions available – I went with RSV (non-dramatised).
 
didymus said:
The Diocese of Galveston & Huston has a downloadable audio Bible available on its website, can be burned to CD or loaded onto an MP3 player. Several languages and Bible versions available – I went with RSV (non-dramatised).
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That’s fantastic!!! Catholic Bible, in MP3 format!!! What will they think of next!?!? Of course, that places us only about 10 years behind our Protestant brethren, eh? 😉

Thanks so much for the link, Twin!!!
 
Does anyone know of a podcast for daily prayers? I’m looking for a short daily podcast of this sort.

I’ve already come across:
Pray-as-you-go
Divine Office
Praystation Portable

Does anyone know of any others?

Thanks! 🙂
 
your bookmarks and scroll to it, then right click the link and then select “copy” from the drop down box and click it, then simply open a new post on this thread and and hit Ctrl
 
Can somebody please show me step-to step how to rip MP3s:( I clicked on one of the links (www.peterkreeft.com) and I dont know how to a thing. I have an Iriver (mp4) so I should be able to rip MP3 and put it on my Iriver right? Please my catholic brothers and sisters, please help:(
 
Benjamin8o8 said:
Can somebody please show me step-to step how to rip MP3s:( I clicked on one of the links (www.peterkreeft.com) and I dont know how to a thing. I have an Iriver (mp4) so I should be able to rip MP3 and put it on my Iriver right? Please my catholic brothers and sisters, please help:(
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When you get to the audio files list, click on one of them, such as “culture wars”. When it goes to the next page, you’ll see “Culture War” with a set of headsets. Right click on it and click on “Save as”. Give it a name and a location and you are downloading!!!
 
NotWorthy said:
When you get to the audio files list, click on one of them, such as “culture wars”. When it goes to the next page, you’ll see “Culture War” with a set of headsets. Right click on it and click on “Save as”. Give it a name and a location and you are downloading!!!
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THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!! IT WORKED TOO…AND ITS ON MY IRIVER!!!:extrahappy::extrahappy:::
 
NotWorthy said:
That’s fantastic!!! Catholic Bible, in MP3 format!!! What will they think of next!?!? Of course, that places us only about 10 years behind our Protestant brethren, eh? 😉

Thanks so much for the link, Twin!!!
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Not so much. I’d say the Church was firmly 1500 years without Protestantism, then the next 500, the Protestants spent going backward after parting from infallible teaching of the word and losing of five Sacraments, while we continued faithfully forward. Do the math…
 
MDK said:
Not so much. I’d say the Church was firmly 1500 years without Protestantism, then the next 500, the Protestants spent going backward after parting from infallible teaching of the word and losing of five Sacraments, while we continued faithfully forward. Do the math…
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But we Catholics need to have some of the zeal for the Bible that our Protestants brothers and sisters do - not the tendency for private mis-interpretation, but definitely the love for reading the Scriptures.

I know numerous Catholics that are simply too intimidated by the Scriptures to learn more about them.
 
Faith Magazine (UK) available online or by subscription, also check out the Products link which includes downloadable pamphlets on catechetics, apologetics, & all that good stuff.
 
Fr. Tim Finigan of th Hermeneutic of Continuity was recently the subject of a nasty article in The Tablet (UK) and the Catholic blogosphere came to his defense. He has thanked them by name, which makes a handy list of Catholic blogs:

In Hoc Signo Vinces (Paulinus)

Young Catholic Adults (Damian)

Suffering World (Athanasius)

Monty Mark

Catholic and Loving It (James Preece)

Owl of the Remove

The Traditional Latin Mass in Michiana (David A. Werling)

Blogging Lourdes (Father George)

My heart was restless (Jane Teresa)

Catholic Truth Scotland

The Token Catholic (CBF Papist blog)

Dantes nyheter

Christus Vincit (Brian Michael Page)

Torch of the Faith

Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

All the little epsilons

Sober Inebriation (Michael Tober)

Holy Smoke (Damian Thompson)

What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Fr Z)

New Liturgical Movement (Shawn Tribe)

Curt Jester (Jeff Miller)

Catholic Church Conservation (Gillibrand)

St Mary Magdalen, Brighton (Fr Ray Blake)

Mulier Fortis (Mac McLernon)

Muniment Room (Ttony)

Bara Brith (Leutgeb)

Catholic Action UK

The Sensible Bond (Ches)

That the bones you have crushed may thrill (Laurence England)

Pellegrinaggio: Crossing the Ponte Sisto

Valle Adurni (Fr Sean Finnegan)

Forest Murmurs (Fr Michael Brown)

Standing on my Head (Fr Dwight Longenecker)

Fr Mildew (Fr Michael Clifton)

Vultus Christi (Father Mark)

Friends with Christ (Fr Richard Aladics)

Fr Anthony Ho

Australia Incognita (Terra)

Summorum (Helsinki)

True confessions of a Prodigal Daughter (Mary Rose Maguire)

Sancte Pater (Vincenzo)

Te Deum Laudamus (Diane M. Korzeniewski)

DaTechguy’s Blog

LMS Middlesborough

Opinionated Catholic (James H)
 
NotWorthy said:
But we Catholics need to have some of the zeal for the Bible that our Protestants brothers and sisters do - not the tendency for private mis-interpretation, but definitely the love for reading the Scriptures.

I know numerous Catholics that are simply too intimidated by the Scriptures to learn more about them.
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Catholics approach the Bible with more respect, in that we know not to misinterpret. Being intimidated is not a surprise, but there are guides. We should always read the CCC, which is the greatest companion to the Bible ever written.

The Protestants approach the Bible with arrogance, treating it as easy to understand, and as long as they can point back to something written in Scriptures which they can assign a meaning to… they believe they’re covered. No wonder they have zeal, as they’re creating their own religion. So, it’s a false zeal.

The true zeal comes in knowing Christ as He really is… no brothers and sisters by his mother, His mother as Queen of Heaven, knowing Christ’s doctrines which do not include salvation by faith alone, once saved always saved, or Bible alone as rule of faith. Unlike the Protestant arrogance, we must approach both God and His teachings with appropriate reverence and respect. We also have great zeal for Christ due to His seven Sacraments including the incomparable gift of Himself in the Most Holy Eucharist. God gave us an infallible teaching Church, so what is there to be intimidated about? It’s ignorance of this that keeps people from knowing truth.

Honestly, if I were doing this on my own, I would be intimidated. Fortunately, God gave us the Church and has protected her from ever teaching error in faith and morals. This is a great comfort as I read Scriptures, knowing what the Church teaches on how to interpret them. We must have respect for Scriptures, and rely on the official Church teachings to know what they mean. Nothing intimidating about that, but greatly comforting.
 
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