Web site of the Holy See.

http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm

Latest news from the Holy See.

http://www.vatican.va/latest/latest_en.htm

The Vatican Information Service is a news service, founded in the Holy See Press Office, that provides information about the Magisterium and the pastoral activities of the Holy Father and the Roman Curia. Each service consists primarily of pontifical acts and nominations, a summary of the Holy Father’s homilies and speeches, presentations and communications concerning pontifical documents and dicasteries of the Holy See, activities of the Congregations, Pontifical Councils, Synods, etc, and official statements issued by the Holy See Press Office. In accordance with international regulations on Intellectual Property and Author’s Rights, prior authorization is necessary to reproduce the VIS service, partially or in its entirety, or in the case of electronic re-transmission. In addition, it is always necessary to cite the source (VIS – Vatican Information Service). To obtain permission, as well as to make comments or suggestions, you may write to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

http://press.catholica.va/news_services/press/vis/englinde.php

Includes encyclicals, biographies, general audience texts, and apostolic letters.

http://www.vatican.va/offices/papal_docs_list.html

The Catechism lists and explains the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Click here to search the Catechism by keyword.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

In order to realize more fully the Catechism’s potential and in response to the request that had emerged at the International Catechetical Congress of October 2002, Pope John Paul II, in 2003, established a Commission under the presidency of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was given the task of drafting a Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as a more concise formulation of its contents of faith.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html#INTRODUCTION

The compendium, issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, provides a detailed description of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Click here to open a link to the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, having received the opinion of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, has decided that it would be appropriate to publish the present Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life. This Note is directed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church and, in a particular way, to Catholic politicians and all lay members of the faithful called to participate in the political life of democratic societies.

Click here to read this Doctrinal Note

In order to realize more fully the Catechism’s potential and in response to the request that had emerged at the International Catechetical Congress of October 2002, Pope John Paul II, in 2003, established a Commission under the presidency of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was given the task of drafting a Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, as a more concise formulation of its contents of faith.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/compendium_ccc/documents/archive_2005_compendium-ccc_en.html#INTRODUCTION

The Catechism lists and explains the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Click here to search the Catechism by keyword.

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM

Includes encyclicals, biographies, general audience texts, and apostolic letters.

http://www.vatican.va/offices/papal_docs_list.html

This web page, hosted by the Office of Social Justice, a program of Catholic Charities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, offers resources on several key themes in Catholic Social teaching.

http://www.osjspm.org/notable_quotations.aspx

The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, having received the opinion of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, has decided that it would be appropriate to publish the present Doctrinal Note on some questions regarding the participation of Catholics in political life. This Note is directed to the Bishops of the Catholic Church and, in a particular way, to Catholic politicians and all lay members of the faithful called to participate in the political life of democratic societies.

Click here to read this Doctrinal Note

The compendium, issued by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, provides a detailed description of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

Click here to open a link to the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

Faithful Citizenship, hosted by the USCCB, includes information on Catholic teaching and how we, as citizens, can act on these teachings to promote justice, peace, and human dignity in our nation.

http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/

What have you done for your marriage today? That’s the question the Catholic Church asks in a series of TV and radio spots and a Web site launched in June 2007 by the U.S. bishops. A collaborative effort of the USCCB Committee on Communications and the Subcommittee on Marriage and Family Life, the campaign is part of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ multi-year National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage. The initiative aims to convey the meaning and value of married life for the Church and for society.

http://foryourmarriage.org/

In Texas there are 2 Archdioceses and 13 Dioceses. Click here to view the Texas Catholic Conference Diocese page, which includes links to the web sites of all 15 archdioceses and dioceses.

The Catholic Mobilizing Network promotes restorative justice to end the use of the death penalty.

http://catholicsmobilizing.org/

The Catholic Health Association of Texas is a nonprofit (501(C)(3) organization created in 1940 to represent and advocate on behalf of Catholic hospitals in Texas. Members range from major urban medical centers to smaller hospitals that serve rural communities. CHA Texas supports their mission through collaboration, advocacy, involvement, education, and inspiration.

http://www.chatexas.org/

The Texas Mission Council exists to create mission awareness and support through the collaborative efforts of diocesan mission directors, representatives of missions organizations serving in Texas, and individuals and groups interested in mission. Areas of collaboration are:

• Promoting a general climate of world mission awareness, responsibility, involvement, and ecumenism. 
• Striving to increase human and financial resources in support of world mission.
• Providing opportunities through documents, videos, and personal consultation for sharing of ideas and collaborative programming. 
• Sponsoring opportunities for education in mission theology or through immersion experience. 
• Recommending general policies pertaining to mission awareness, responsibility, and involvement.

The Texas Knights of Columbus State Council is a Catholic, Fraternal, Faith, Family Community serving over 93,000 Knight members and their families from all over the great state of Texas and beyond. The Texas State Council brings our faith fraternal members and community the daily catholic news, current information about our State Programs and Resources along with information, articles, photos, stories about our great Order in Texas and more.

http://www.tkofc.org

Whether you call us Nuns or Sisters, we are Roman Catholic women religious who have answered God’s call to spend the rest of our lives serving Jesus Christ by caring for those in need, especially the poor and abandoned. Many years ago we were easy to recognize dressed in our long habits. You may have seen us in Catholic schools or hospitals.

Today we continue to carry out our mission of service to others with the same dedication, commitment and tenacity of the Sisters who went before us. Our love of God still moves us to bring our gifts as teachers, doctors, administrators, social advocates, lawyers, nurses, counselors, and many other ministries to people.

This website is sponsored by Congregations of Roman Catholic women religious based in Texas to show the active apostolic lives of Sisters, often referred t

o as Nuns, in today's world.

http://www.catholicnunstoday.org

The mission of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is to support the ministry of bishops with an emphasis on evangelization, by which the bishops exercise in a communal and collegial manner certain pastoral functions entrusted to them by the Lord Jesus of sanctifying, teaching, and governing.

This mission calls the Conference to:

• Act collaboratively and consistently on vital issues confronting the Church and society
• Foster communion with the Church in other nations, within the Church universal, under the leadership of its supreme pastor, the Roman Pontiff
• Offer appropriate assistance to each bishop in fulfilling his particular ministry in the local Church

USCCB Home page

USCCB Department Listing

Readings and Psalms for the Month

The National Association of State Catholic Conference Directors (NASCCD) is an association of the executive directors of state Catholic conferences and affiliate diocesan agencies. A state Catholic conference is a church agency representing the dioceses within a state in order to provide for the coordination of the public policy concerns of the church.

http://www.nasccd.org/

The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) is a voluntary association of educators and institutions. The Association's structure is based on a departmental arrangement whereby member institutions hold association membership through one of the constitutive departments. The membership departments are:

• Chief Administrators of Catholic Education (CACE)
• Elementary Schools
• Secondary Schools
• Religious Education
• Seminary Boards and
• Councils of Catholic Education 

NCEA is the largest private professional education organization in the world, representing 200,000 Catholic educators serving 7.6 million students in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, in religious education programs, in seminaries and in colleges and universities.

http://www.ncea.org/

Justice for Immigrants: The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform

In June 2004, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration and The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, INC. (CLINIC) Board of Directors resolved to make comprehensive immigration reform, with special emphasis on legalization, a major public policy priority within the Church. Many other national Catholic institutions have also made legalization a policy priority. The Campaign's primary objectives are:

• To educate the public, especially the Catholic community, including Catholic public officials, about Church teaching on migration and immigrants;
• To create political will for positive immigration reform;
• To enact legislative and administrative reforms based on the principles articulated by the bishops; and
• To organize Catholic networks to assist qualified immigrants obtain the benefits of the reforms.

Catholic Charities USA is the national office for over 1,700 local Catholic Charities agencies and institutions nationwide. Catholic Charities USA provides strong leadership and support to enhance the work of local agencies in their efforts to reduce poverty, support families, and empower communities. Catholic Charities USA's members provide help and create hope for more than 8.5 million people of all faiths each year.

http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/

Catholic health care is a ministry of the Catholic Church continuing Jesus’ mission of love and healing in the world today. Comprised of more than 600 hospitals and 1,400 long-term care and other health facilities in all 50 states, the Catholic health ministry is the largest group of non-profi t health care providers in the nation.

http://www.chausa.org/

The National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD) was established in 1982 to implement in parishes and dioceses throughout the United States the 1978 Pastoral Statement of U.S. Catholic Bishops on Persons with Disabilities.  NCPD is guided by the following mission: Rooted in Gospel values that affirm the dignity of every person, the National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD) works collaboratively to ensure meaningful participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of the life of the Church and society.

http://ncpd.org/

Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community.

http://crs.org/ (en español)

The National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC) educates, organizes and represents those living the rural way of life in America.

http://www.ncrlc.com/

The Catholic Coalition on Climate Change supports and complements USCCB's Office of Social Development and World Peace and the bishops' Environmental Justice Program.

http://catholicsandclimatechange.org/

• to increase the Church's self understanding
• to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers
• to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism

En la declaración Formando la conciencia para ser ciudadanos fieles, los obispos de los Estados Unidos nos recuerdan que “En la Tradición de la Iglesia, ser ciudadanos responsables es una virtud y la participación en la vida política es una obligación moral” (Núm. 13). Las decisiones que tomamos como ciudadanos acerca de quién nos liderará y qué políticas serán puestas en práctica tienen importantes dimensiones morales y éticas.

http://www.faithfulcitizenship.org/lang/spanish

Catholic Relief Services es la agencia oficial de la comunidad católica en los Estados Unidos dedicada a la ayuda humanitaria internacional.

http://crsespanol.org

La Red de Mobilización Católica (Catholic Mobilizing Network) proclama la enseñanza pro-vida en forma incondicional y su aplicamiento al castigo capital y a la justicia restaurativa. CMN trabaja con la Conferencia de Obispos de los Estados Unidos para preparar a los Católicos para una involucración mas informada dentro de las campañas legales para revocar la pena de muerte estatal y expander o inaugurar programas de justicia de restauración.

http://www.catholicsmobilizing.org/espanol.cfm

Nosotros, los obispos de Estados Unidos, hemos escuchado las voces de los líderes hispanos—de los laicos y del clero. Afirmamos especialmente aquellos esfuerzos pastorales en el ministerio hispano que fomentan el objetivo general y las dimensiones específicas del Plan Pastoral Nacional para el Ministerio Hispano ("Plan Pastoral Nacional" o "Plan Pastoral") de 1987. Esta declaración pastoral, Encuentro y Misión: Un Marco Pastoral Renovado para el Ministerio Hispano, está dirigida a todos los católicos, particularmente a los líderes pastorales involucrados en el ministerio con hispanos…

http://www.usccb.org/hispanicaffairs/indexsp.shtml

Fe y Vida enables Catholic leaders at the grassroots, professional, and institutional levels to respond to the human, spiritual, and socio-cultural needs of Hispanic youth and young adults.

http://www.feyvida.org

Bienvenidos a Por Tu Matrimonio: Un espacio para inspirar, ayudar y exhortar a las parejas de habla hispana a vivir más plenamente su relación de pareja. Aquí encontraras consejos, historias, testimonios y recursos que te acompañen en tu vida diaria, para llegar a ser un matrimonio feliz. ¡Anímate pues a descubrir con nosotros todo lo que puedes hacer Por Tu Matrimonio!

http://www.portumatrimonio.org/

ANSH es una asociación sacerdotal, fruto de un largo proceso de maduración y consolidación de varias asociaciones de sacerdotes, establecida de acuerdo con las directrices del Decreto "Presbiterorum Ordinis" del Concilio Vaticano II, n. 8.

http://www.ansh.org/

La Conferencia del Episcopado Mexicano (CEM), institución de carácter permanente, es el organismo de los Obispos mexicanos, para ejercer colegialmente algunas funciones pastorales, para promover, conforme a las normas del Derecho, el mayor bien que la Iglesia proporciona a los hombres, sobre todo mediante formas y modos de apostolado convenientemente acomodados a las peculiares circunstancias de la nación mexicana en la actualidad.

http://www.cem.org.mx/