Denominations

Vowed to serve people in poverty, sickness, and ignorance. Includes news, questions and answers, works, justice, and connections.

The international network of the Sisters of Mercy. Includes association information, projects, conversations, news, and sacred space.

Information and meditations from the California province of an international congregation of women religious living their spirituality through simplicity and service--education and pastoral services

Homepage of the Youngstown Congregation of the Sisters of St. Ursula

Homepage of the Mount St. Joseph congregation of the Ursuline Order.

A fraternal membership organization. Current officers and directors, local council directory, member benefits and programs, news and events, and related links.

Very informative State Council Page, currently planned events throughout the state. Links to individual councils and assemblies.

Provides Leadership Guide For Membership Recruitment, forms and certificates, State Deputy's schedule, history of the Knights of Columbus.

Portland, Oregon. Photos, publications, description of life in their community.

News and events, and how you can help.

Tokyo. Provides Mass schedule, weekly bulletin, staff directory, map and directions, news, forum.

Sandakan, Sabah. Map, information on their sub-parishes, history, Mass schedule, parish organisations.

Kudat, Sabah. Illustrated history, Mass schedule, organisations and outstations. Information for those interested in becoming Catholic.

Fethard, County Tipperary. Monthly parish newsletter online in Adobe Acrobat format.

In rural Tipperary. Mass times in both churches, maps, announcements, history, parish groups.

Geneva. English-speaking parish. Maps, Mass schedule, contact information, photos, parish activities, online registration. Uses frames.

Wanganui. One parish with three churches: St Mary's, St Anne's, and Holy Family. Mass times, contact information, recent newsletters in PDF, news items.

The vital statistics of the pope.

News, opinion, and photo essays. Small archive of recent news and commentary, selected stories from years past.

Videos and transcripts of appearances on C-SPAN.

Essay on chaplets, rosaries, prayer ropes, prayer cords. Brief treatment of the use of beads in prayer by non-Christians.

Article about the Franciscan Crown, also known as the Seraphic Rosary. Brief history, general description of how one prays this chaplet.

Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary goes back to the Middle Ages. Includes instructions and scriptural meditations.

Reflects on the life of Christ. Uses ordinary rosary beads, and prayers suited to any Christian: the Lord's Prayer and two short prayers based on the "greatest commandment" and the Great Commission.

Although he is identified in the Roman Martyrology, at least one scholar thinks that this bishop was an Arian.

Article on Augustine as a Doctor of the Church, and his influence in the history of philosophy and theology. Particular interest in his teaching on grace.

Short article on St. Agatho the Wonderworker, a Sicilian believed to have been over 100 years old at the time of his election. He died in 681.

Short biography of the Franciscan famed as a preacher.

Long article on the Bishop of Alexandria, confessor and Doctor of the Church.

Fourth-century bishop of Trier.

Irish-born abbot of Iona, and St. Columba's biographer.

Long article on the Augustinian canon turned Franciscan, priest, preacher, miracle worker, d. 1231. Known as "the Hammer of the Heretics."

Profiles of six bishops of this name in the early Church.

A first-century martyr, the bishop of Ravenna.

Brother of St. Bridget the Younger and archdeacon of Fiesole, d. about 877.

Entered the convent at the age of 9, commissioned by the pope to found a monastery at the age of 13 (and 2 years later she was made its superior), also founded a Dominican convent, d. 1317.

Archbishop of Florence, Dominican reformer, moral theologian, d. 1459.

Sister or niece of Pepin of Landen. Amalberga was married to Witger; they both entered monastic life. Also called St. Amelia.

Deacon, founder of the English Franciscan Province, d. 1236.

Polish Jesuit priest and missionary, martyred in 1657.

Counselor to the King of Sicily, joined the Augustinians, renowned for his knowledge of civil and ecclesiastical law, served as the pope's confessor, was General of his Order.

Huron missionary, born at Dieppe, in Normandy, 27 May 1601, slain by the Iroquois.

A Hebrew word signifying: ruin, destruction (Job 31:12); place of destruction; the Abyss, realm of the dead (Job 26:6; Proverbs 15:11).

A titular see in the province of Rhodope on the southern coast of Thrace, now called Bouloustra.

Apocryphal writer.

Indian tribe, linguistically of Guaycuru stock.

Covers definition, causes, and physical effects.

French bishop, born at the Château de Raconis in 1580 of a Calvinistic family; died 1646.

A learned Maronite, born in Hekel, or Ecchel (hence his surname), a village on Mount Lebanon, in 1600; died 1664 in Rome.

A titular see of Troas in Asia Minor, suffragan of Cyzicus in the Hellespontic province.