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Relationship with Christ 

• Alpha Youth (Videos)
• Going outside of the classroom to begin the year - summer service through Love Begins Here, CYE, or another retreat experience 

Science & Religion  **NEW 
 Credible Catholic ​offers FREE on-line teaching products based on content from Father Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. The Credible Catholic Series is a complete set of 20 “Modules” that act as a companion to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) explaining the Catechism by “Parts” while addressing issues affecting and infecting our religion.  Learn more. 

More Science & Religion

•  Magis Center Video Library
• Magis Center Articles
• Sophia Institute Resource on Faith and Science

Binder for High School (Jen Wippich and Gloria Schuh, Holy Cross, Kaukauna) 

• Course Completion Guide 
• Faith In Action
• Faith in Action - Encountering Christ 
• Faith in Action Reflection
• Prayer Guide
• Spiritual Goals 

Mercy 

• Year of Mercy Activities (Website)
• Pope Francis Opens the Holy Door (Video)
• Jubilee Year of Mercy Explained (Video)
• Eight Questions about the Jubilee year of Mercy You were Afraid to Ask (Video)
• Ocean of Mercy (Video)
• Mercy of God - You're not Good Enough - And That's Ok (Video)
• Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy (Handout)
• 7 Corporal Works of Mercy (Video)
• Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Song (Video)
• How to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet (Website)
• Pope Francis and Year of Mercy (Video for Elementary Students)

Does God Exist? 

• God is Real (Video)
• Scientific Evidence for God's Existence (Video)
• God is Dead (Video)
• St. Thomas Aquinas 5 proofs of God's Existence (Article)
• 20 Arguments for the Existence of God (Article)
• Peter Kreeft on Aquinas' Proofs of God's Existence (Article)

Objective/Subjective Truth 

• Absolute Relativism: The New Dictatorship (Video)
• Moral Law in a Relativistic Culture (Video)
• Objective v. Subjective Truth (Article/Practice)
• Tolerance (Video)
• Snakes on a Plane (Article)

Testimonies

• Nathan's Story - Drinking, Rebellion, Eucharist
• Rina's Story - Peace
• ​Mark's Story - Hockey, Popularity, Rosary
• Regrets - Motivation 

Angels and Afterlife

• 9 Choirs of Angels (Infographic) 
• Proclaiming the Bad News to Teenagers - Hell (Article) 
• Death and Judgment (Video)

​Bible 

• How do I know the Bible is True? (Video)
• Why Should I Read the Bible? (Video)
• Bible in a Minute (Video)
• Read the Bible in One Year (Website)

Sacraments 

• What is a Sacrament? (Video)
• The Seven Sacraments (Video)
• Your Favorite Sacrament (Video)

Confirmation 

• Dynamic Catholic: Decision Point (Website and Videos)
• Confirmation 101 (Video)

Lent 

• Ash Wednesday and Lent in 2 minutes (Video)
• Lent (Video)
• Palm Sunday/Triduum (Video)
• Triduum (Video)
• Palm Sunday with Matt Maher (Video)
• 5 Reasons to Love Fasting (Article) 
• 5 Creative Fasting Ideas for Lent (Article) 
• Illustrated guide to Lent Fasting and Abstinence (Blog/Picture)
• 100 Things to Do For Lent (Blog)
• Why Catholics Give up Meat on Fridays (Blog)
• 25 Creative Things to do for Lent (Blog)

​Why Church?

• The Rock of St. Peter (Video)
• Church Hierarchy (Infographic) **NEW
• The Total Giving of Yourself to Christ- Pope John Paul II (Video)
• What happened to the apostles and where are their remains today? (Infographic)
• We Are Catholic (Video)
• How to be Pope? (Video)
• Why Can't I Follow my Own Conscience? (Video)
• Why I Love Jesus but Hate Religion (Video, but remember it is NOT in communion with the Church. Watch with teens but then counter it with a correct video: Why I Love Jesus and Religion - A Catholic Response or Why I Love Jesus and Religion-Spoken Word)
• Can I Disagree with the Church and Still be Catholic? (Video)
• Universality of the Church (Video) 
• Church Hierarchy Infographic (Picture)
• Gaudium et Spes The Church in the Modern World  
• "Joy and Hope" (Pastoral Constitution from Second Vatican Council)
• Interactive Tour of St. Peters

Apologetics 

• Two Minute Answers to Difficult Questions
• Why do Catholics have Images and Statues (Video)
• Have you ever been asked why Catholics...(PDF, needs design updates)

Creed 

• The Creed (Video)
• Creeds of the Catholic Church (Website)

Mary 

• 50 Reasons why Teens Pray with Mary (Video)
• Our Lady of Lourdes (Video)
• Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help (Website) 

Science and Religion 

• Magis Reason and Faith (Website)
• Fides et Ratio "Faith and Reason" Encyclical 
• Faith and Reason (Video)

Church Documents

• The Joy of the Gospel "Evangelii Gaudium" 
• The Splendor of Truth "Veritatis Splendor"
• The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality 

Spiritual Warfare 

• The Spiritual Combat Book
• St. Michael the Archangel Prayer
• Idol Worship (Video)

Advent/Christmas/Epiphany 

• Advent (Spirit Juice Studio Video)
• Joseph and Mary on Social Media (Video)
• O Antiphons (Website)
• Jesse Tree (Activities, Ornaments, and Information)
• A Young Woman Became Pregnant (Video)
• What Gift do you bring to Jesus (Video)

Human Beings  

• All Human Beings Yearn for Happiness (Dr. Peter Kreeft) 

Death Penalty 

• Death with Dignity - One Woman's Story (Video)
• Catholics Mobilize Against the Death Penalty (Resources)

Corporal/Spiritual Works of Mercy 

• Service (Video)
• Give a Little Love (Video) 
• The Key to Joy (Video) ​

Media 

• America's Next Top Model Talks about Media Lies (Video) 

Jesus 

• Who is Jesus and what Makes Him Unique? (Video)
• Recognizing Jesus (Video)
• I Believe in Jesus Christ (Website)
• 15 Logical Reasons to Believe in the Resurrection (Blog)

The Trinity 

• The Trinity Explained in 3 minutes (Video)

Confession 

• High School Examination of Conscience (Handout)
• Why Confession? (Video)
• The Power of Confession (Video)
• Come Home (Video)
• Confession (Video)
• Forgiveness - 2010 ESPYS (VIDEO)
• Restored - Steubenville Youth Conference (Video)
• Sacraments 101: Why We Confess (Video)
• Healing - Come Awake (Video)
• Ocean of Mercy (Video)
• Living a New Life of Purity (Video)
• Confession & the Healing of Memories (Video
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Eucharist/Mass/Adoration 

• What did you get out of Mass? (Video)
• Go to Church (Video)
• Why Do I Have to Go to Mass on Sunday? (Video)
• Eucharistic Miracles (Website)
• List of Eucharistic Miracles for Children - Handouts
• Eucharistic Adoration with Young People (Handout)
• Explaining the Real Presence - Worksheets

Prayer/Discernment 

• ​Litany of the Saints (Video)
• Importance of Silence (Video)
• When You Can't Hear God (Video)
• How do We Discern? (Video) 
• Trusting God (Video)
• The Longest Journey - Between the Head and Heart (Video)
• How to Pray: 6 Tips for a Better Prayer Life (Blog) 

Types of Prayer 

• Angelus (prayed at 6am, Noon, and 6pm)
• Free Angelus App
• Pocket Angelus App
• Liturgy of the Hours/Divine Office (Website)
• The Rosary (Website)
• How To Make Rosaries (Website)
• Pocket Rosary App 
• How To Recite the Rosary (Handout) 
• Chaplet of Divine Mercy 
• 12 Reasons to Spend One Hour with Jesus at Adoration (Article)
• The Examen (Article) 
• Gratitude (Video)

Suffering/Hardship 

• Why does God Let us Suffer? (Video)
• God Cares About our Suffering (Video)
• The Problem of Suffering (Video)
• The Christian Meaning of Human Suffering (Encyclical)

Catholic Social Teaching 

• Service (Video) 
• Beatitudes (Video)
• Catholic Social teaching in 3 minutes! (Video)
• Pro-Life -March for Life (Video)
• Value of Life - "99 Balloons" Eliot lives 99 days (Video)
• 7 Themes of Catholic Social Teaching (Website)
• Themes of Catholic Social Teaching for all grade levels (Archdiocese of Baltimore)
• Rerum Novarum - on The Condition of Labor (Pope Leo XIII)
• Immigration and the Church (with Questions from USCCB)
• Quotes From Church Documents About Issues Of Human Life, Justice And Peace (USCCB)
• Activity: Poverty Simulation (USCCB)
• Poverty USA Action Project (USCCB)
• Catholic Relief Services Educational Website 
• Facing Poverty Lessons (USCCB activities, worksheets, prayers)
• Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (Vatican)

Saints 

• You are Meant for Greatness (Video)
• Blessed Chiara Badano (Video)
• Maximilian Kolbe (Video)
• St. Patrick (Video)
• St. Joseph (Video)
• St. John Paul II (Video)
• Fr. Capodanno (Video)
• Fr. Kapaun - Soldier Chaplain (Video)
• North American Martyrs (Video)
• The Christians in the World (3rd/4th century letter)
• Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (Website)

Seminary/Priesthood

• The Calling (Diocese of Green Bay Video)
• When did you Decide to Join the Priesthood? (Video)
• Receiving the Call to Priesthood (Video)
• From Professional Soccer to Priesthood (Video)
• Advice for Prospective Seminarians (Video)
• Pope Benedict XVI to Seminarians 
• Fishers of Men (Video Part 2)
• The Midfielder's Cross (Video)
• New York Ordination (Video) 
• Why be A Priest (Video)
• Pope John Paul II on his Vocation (Video)
• Vocations Answers (Video)
• Me, A Priest? Josh Johnson (Video) 
• To Be A Priest (Video)
• Ordination Experience (Video)
• Seminary Experience (Video)
• Diocese of Joliet Seminarians: A Vocations Story (Video)
• The Calling; Mundelein Seminary (Video)
• ​Meet the Green Bay Seminarians (Website)
• Tomorrow's Priests: 5 stories of Seminarians (VIdeo) 
• A Vocation Story - Personal Experience (Video)
• Courtship with the Church (Video)

Women - Religious Life 

• Women of Mystery, Women of Hope (Video)
• From Elvis' First Kiss to the Cloister (Video Part 1)
• From Elvis' First Kiss to the Cloister (Video Part 2)
• A Real Vocation Story - Cold Feet? (Video) 
• Catholic Sisters in their Own Words (Video)
• Light of Love - Imagine Sisters (Video) 
• Beautiful Celebrities who Gave it all up to become Nuns (Article)​

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