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ABOUT.COM's Catholic Links: This is a recent website (2000) that contains over 700 sites with guide Joe Cece. It contains 30 links, with subjects including Church History, Current Issues, Liturgy: General, Music, Morality, and Social Justice. These topics would be helpful in supplementing a high school religion programme. From the link on Religious Education, all sorts of resources were listed under the Catholic Education Network, which would be a quick way to access resources on a particular topic or current unit of study.-Susan Arena
American Catholic Online: This site includes reviews of literature, audio, and video products. It also includes some daily features such as Saint of the day, Minute Meditations, Catholic News, etc. A very interactive site. It's a great place to look for insights on various materials you may be thinking of incorporating in the classroom. It also has a fabulous product catalogue from which one can order many useful online products. -- Claudia Roccari
Australian Religious Education Resources
Bread on the Waters: Web Pages to Feed the Web Surfer’s Spirit: This site is a wonderful resource which presents web pages on a variety of topics, especially prayer. The section entitled “Lord, Teach us to Pray” takes the surfer through the Our Father, Hail Mary, and other prayers line by line and explains what is meant by each of the statements. The online articles and links to magazines are insightful to youth and adults seeking a deeper understanding of the mysteries. Present also are articles that relate information on members of the Church and foreign communities and their efforts to build a living church. This site could easily be used in the classroom in terms of helping young people understanding prayer and what it means when we pray the Our Father and Hail Mary. It is also excellent for helping students understand how other parts of the world are building their Catholic faith. One could easily get lost amidst the pages of information. However it is a journey worth taking for the web surfer’s spirit.
-Valerie Lee-Chan
"the Best Information On the Net" -: chosen by librarians at O'Keefe Library, St. Ambrose University
Catechism of the Catholic Church: This site gives a brief description of the book and how it can be used. Links to noted quotations and direct access to Bible references are included. It is a very user friendly website. Students can use it to access information on various issues (i.e. Mary, homosexuality, etc.)

Catholic Americana: - an annotated list of links
Catholic Canada -: - an extensive Web Site hosted by Fr. W.T. Sehl, Priest of the Diocese of Hamilton, Director, CCD
Catholic Community: At this location you can enter a topic to search (sacraments) and then it provides you with a list of articles and information about your topic, using biblical references. --Melissa Doucette
Catholic Community Forum: This site contains News, Reflections, Word of God Reflections, Liturgical Reading, Patron Saints Index, Daily E-Pistle, Polls, quizzes, Games, Tell a Friend, Juke box, Word of God Reflections, 60 second Aquinas Lesson, and Awards. A user friendly website. A lot of fun options on the menu that students may want to investigate. -- Claudia Roccari
Catholic Corner: This is an interactive site at which one has the opportunity to learn more about Catholicism and share ideas. Catholics have the opportunity to develop their understanding of their faith, as they discuss and gain insight on various issues related to Catholicism. Included at this website are chat rooms, the Catholic Message Centre message board, as well as, an all Catholic links directory with hundreds of links to other Catholic websites. Also at this website, one will find discussion lists, instruction on how to pray the rosary, a variety of prayers and prayer requests. --Maria Pellegrino
Catholic Culture: This site provides commentary on a number of current topics. Perhaps most useful for the educator though is the link to the Library and the Liturgical Calendar. The Library allows the visitor to search by topic, author or date for articles dealing with many topics such as vocation, biblical criticism and more. The Liturgical Calendar keeps the educator aware of the significance of the various celebrations of the Church year.--Michael Rooney
Catholic Educator's Resource Center: This site provides a view on modern day issues and events in a Catholic perspective. You can search through their collection of articles that discuss issues related to Catholic Education and/or Current Issues. Some topics that can be found under the Catholic Education link are articles pertaining to Church history, ethics, arts and literature, etc. Some topics that can be found under the Current Issues link include euthanasia, abortion, marriage and family, media, etc. This site is useful to teachers because information about the Catholic churches position on many issues and events that may be brought up in the classroom is readily available for us to use.--Tina Martelli

Catholic Encyclopedia: 1917 edition This site allows the browser to search for information about different aspects of the Church by typing in the beginning letter of the topic of interest --Melissa Doucette.
Catholic Families.net: Information and activities for children, teachers and parents with links to other sites. --Melissa Doucette
The Catholic Goldmine: This site really is a goldmine for issues and dogmas about Catholicism. It is an easily navigable site and its table of contents is highly inclusive and easy to access. It is mainly a search engine for quick links to other web sites, but its format makes the searching for whatever topic you are looking for easy. It also features a site of the month as well as a question and answer section. This site is invaluable to any teacher that is looking for anything Catholic. -- Debbie Mayos
Catholic Information Network: This site contains all types of information about issues regarding today's Catholic. It contains Vatican News as well as reflections about Christian Celebrations such as Easter and Lent. This is a very useful and resourceful site for teachers because it enables us to gather pertinent information that we may use in our classrooms.-- Rose Di Cresce
Catholic Library Association: The main use for this site as teachers and visitors is to search for library resources which often are accompanied by summaries and the occasional review. I find these sites very practical and enjoyable because of my love to read. The non-commercial aspects of the library based catalogues are a positive attribute. --Donna Hackett
The Catholic Mother's Internet Connection: This is the only website on the net designed for Roman Catholic mothers. It is a resource center for mothers who face the challenge of raising young children. The site gives examples of ways that traditional Roman Catholic spirituality can be incorporated throughout the day. As well as ideas and practices that can be used to teach the traditions of the Roman Catholic faith to children. It also provides great links and an email discussion forum. This site would be useful to elementary school teachers to recommend to parents, mothers and grandmothers. Some of the ideas can also be incorporated into an elementary classroom. -- J. Dixon
Catholic Net: This is an international news site highlighting recent religious events from around the world. It is categorized into sections not unlike your typical secular newspaper. However the categories are presented from a Christian based reporting style. This is an excellent news source for the discerning Catholic.
Catholic Online: Catholic Prayers & Beliefs: Catholic Online is an extensive resource and the section entitled “Catholic Prayers and Belief” is a collection that gives an overview of the many facets of Catholic beliefs. The Prayers section offers prayers by categories such as Advent, Faith, and Motherhood. The Beliefs section outlines the Church’s beliefs on a wide variety of topics including A Guide for Confession, the Stations of the Cross, and the Seven Sacraments. This site presents information in a concise way and is useful to students, teachers, at school, and at home as a reference.-Valerie Lee-Chan
Catholic-Pages.com: This site also contains current information on Lent and Easter, offering church documents, online books, files and articles written by various authors, priests and cardinals. Within these various postings, numerous activities that can be used in the classroom to prepare for Easter, e.g., creating an Easter tree, Easter hymns, etc. are outlined. It is a useful and interesting site to browse. -- Leo Tucci
Catholicism On The Web: This is a search engine designed to search out Catholic information on the web. It was created by Peters Net Home Page (Trinity Communications). It contains valuable links such as Apologetics, Church Documents and Information, Catholic Prayer and Worship, Missions, Catholic Charities, Civil Rights, Marion Page, Shroud of Turin, Catholic Universities, Catholic Bookstores Online, Learn Latin Online, and other useful resources. It also has a questions and answer section where you can receive answers to specific questions. -- Claudia Roccari
Catholic Online: This website has an extensive menu and beautiful graphics -usually paintings from the Romantic era. The choices on the main page include Catholic News, Saints & Angels, WebCast, Catholic forum, Free Webmail, Shopping, Services We Offer, What's New, Catholic Online Search, CCN (Catholic Communication Network). The Catholic Online Search is a worldwide search engine and proved very useful. the links are restricted to appropriate sites from all over the world. An important aspect of this site is the opportunity for cyberspace visitors to participate in discussions and commentaries through the "Catholic Forum" and the CCN. This could provide students and educators avenues for interaction and discussion of topics with other individuals from around the world. The Catholic community is a worldwide community. --Donna Hackett
Christus Rex
Cross Daily: This is an all-encompassing website offering many resources for teachers and students. There are links to games, bible trivia, graphics, inspirational sayings, chats, bible search, poetry, education, christian friendship, homeschooling and software. -- Cathie Furfaro
Cybergrace Christian Network: This web site has won the Christianity Online Award for the "Best Christian Web Site of the Year". This site has the following links: Web site promotion specials, Christian fun, games, chat groups, Christian clip art, praise and worship tapes, etc. Their best link by far is their Bible search. This function searches by keywords and will find any quote from the Bible. It will search even by specific type of version and by Gospels. This is a great link. --Pino Basso
Holy Spirit Parish: the source of Christian Information: This website contains a home page with featured sites and a list of links. Of particular interest are the links for church history, denominations and theology. The contents describe different religions that students would be familiar with in their daily lives. It offers a good study in the comparison of religions. The site could prove useful to teachers and students in a world religion course. In some areas the information may be too much for junior students. However, a high school class should be able to work through the contents. Under the fun and entertainment link, teachers could find activities to assist in 'breaking the ice' in a religion class. Note: there is a degree of commercialism and hawkishness at this site but there is also some useful information. -- Fran Fraser
Institute for Catholic Education: Course Profiles for Catholic Schools: This site is hosted by the Toronto Catholic District School Board. It gives Catholic educators access to the Catholic foundation documents, the Ministry of Education Policy documents as well as course profiles for Grade 9, 10 and 11. All the course profiles teachers need to be able to write curriculum can be accessed through this web page. Bookmark this page! -- Lorraine Ambrosio
National Catholic Education Association
New Advent: This site is not only a 'Catholic' search engine, but it offers many special features:a Catholic encyclopedia; a list of links to the most popular Catholic sites, such as The Holy See, Petersnet, and Catholic Online; a list of links to the most popular Catholic resources such as Church Documents, Catholic FAQ, and The Baltimore Catechism; Daily Catholic News reported from a number of sources and sites and other excellent Catholic links. This site would be an invaluable resource for all Catholic educators and their students, members of the Clergy, and any other member of the Laity. -- J. Babic
Online Religious Education Database: This site contains the database submitted by someone either in a diocesan advisor role or responsible for co-ordinating the teaching of Religious Education in one of the larger schools of Australia.
Peters Net, Catholic Search engine: This is the first and only web search engine designed to find and evaluate every Catholic website throughout the world. Peters Net search will find sites and documents that have titles, authors, and descriptions that match the search words. This site would be useful at the elementary and secondary level for both students and teachers. -- J. Dixon
A Rather Comprehensive List Of Catholic Links: - self-explanatory

Religious Education Exchange Service (British site)
Religious Education on the Web: Although this website is based in the UK, there are some helpful curriculum resources for teachers and sites that students can visit also. This site has a special link for department heads with ideas for courseware, exams, organization and events. The teacher resources include lesson plans, worksheets, exams, essays and media resources. Links to world religions, ethical/moral issues are helpful. The pages are vibrant with user-friendly icons. There is an interactive link which allows students or teachers to ask questions on religious ed. issues and receive answers, world contacts on issues as inter-faith discussions. The link to ethics and moral issues is particularly helpful for discussing topics such as abortion, animal rights, the environment, human rights, medical ethics and genetics, to name a few. -- Cathie Furfaro
Religious Education Resources: This web site includes a variety of resources for teachers including a collection of prayers, sample letters to go home to parents, behaviour management ideas, specific teaching units and lesson plans, sample student work and assessment tools. Sounds great doesn't it! This is a must see for teachers. There is a wealth of information, check it out for yourself. -- Carm
Resources for Catholic Educators: -the mother lode of web sites for Catholic Religious Educators
Resources for Christian Teachers: This web site provides educational resources, ministry resources linked with art and many Christian resources. The site is great in that it contains a vast array of lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards and coloring sheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. The site also contain many links to other sites. This web site contains a vast of useful information to supplement the curriculum. - Carm
Roman Catholicism in Newfoundland: This site was created by Memorial University of Newfoundland professor, Dr. Hans Rollman. Provided is a number of articles written by the site creator and several Catholic publications. One can learn of the history of the Roman Catholic Church in Newfoundland and Labrador through both the written text and a picture gallery. -Danielle Madden
St. Anthony's Cyberguide, the first Canadian Catholic Directory on the web: This website serves as a database of the Parishes, Chanceries and Religious Communities in Canada. It also provides links and menus to church sites which are useful. You will also find the site for Postal codes, as well as, telephone numbers in Canada. Great for researching the religious communities in Canada. -- Janet Ferlisi
St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Resource Site: This site features information on many aspects of the Catholic faith including: Liturgy, Sacraments, Diaconate, Prayers, Birographies of Saints and many links to other Catholic sites. Each site contains a wealth of information with additional links. This site would be useful for elementary and secondary students as well as teachers and other adults interested in learning more about various catholic topics. J. Dixon
Theology/Religion/Catholic Education Resources: This website features resources and lesson plans for World Religions and religious education. It contains many site indexes that include topics on geography/holy places, values/ethics/morals, famous people, holidays, catholic education, home school resources, Bible study, and more.
This site is invaluable to both intermediate and secondary school teachers as it helps with the administration of the Religious Education program and it provides a great deal of useful information that can be used within the classroom. --L. Butrico
Totally Catholic Link Directory: - links (Knoxville, Tenn.)
Today's Catholic Teacher: This website is the electronic edition of the magazine Today's Catholic Teacher. This magazine features useful links, unique teaching and learning tools that would assist educators in Catholic schools. Likewise, for elementary school teachers, there are links that would help you and parents promote the spiritual development of the student in the Quick Links section. The featured article offers an in-depth exploration of an issue or issues involving the faith dimension of Catholic education and is worth taking a look at. -- Allan Dinglasan
Web Desk Catholic Pages: - extensive link source

Much of the work is being completed by teachers in the Religious Education Additional Qualifications Courses held in York Region.

Email the CARFLEO website at les.miller@ycdsb.ca to report broken links.