Parish Pastoral Resources

Videos

 

Websites

• Solidarity - Loving our neighbor (USCCB)
• Why remain Catholic (with so much scandal)? - Bishop Robert Barron, Word on Fire Ministries
• Q&A on the Sexual Crisis - Bishop Robert Barron, Word On Fire Ministries
• Pope Francis Speaks about Hope, with Reflections by Fr. Mike Schmitz - Word Among Us
• Bishops address abuse scandal with U.S. pilgrims at World Youth Day  - The Texas Catholic
• Bishops must realize seriousness of abuse crisis, pope says - Catholic News Service

Podcasts

• Scandals and Mouse Traps (Jeff Cavins)
• Promise to Protect Podcast (USCCB)

Books and Booklets

• Parish Emergency Kit, Responding with Compassion when tragedy strikes - a booklet on healing; Kathy Hendricks, Twenty-Third Publications
• Responding to the Sexual Abuse Crisis – A supplement to the Parish Emergency Kit  - Twenty-Third Publications
• Hurting in the Church: A Way Forward for Wounded Catholics - Father Thomas Berg, Our Sunday Visitor Publications

Papal Encyclicals and Letters

• Letter of His Holiness Pope Francis to the People of God - 2018
• Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) - Pope Benedict XVI, 2009
• Spe Salvi (Saved in Hope) - Pope Benedict XVI, 2007
• Deus Caritas Est (God is Love) - Pope Benedict XVI, 2005

Prayer Resources

• Intercessions for Healing and Hope
  Insert any of the following intercessions into the Prayer of the Faithful, asking God for what is needed in the wake of the clergy abuse crisis
• Liturgical Resources for Prayer During a Crisis - USCCB
• Rosary for Healing - USCCB
• Rosary for Justice - USCCB