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BY Jim Cosgrove At the Web site of Divinity Religious Publications (catholic games.com), you'll find two free online games — Bible Challenge and Catechism Challenge. You can buy and download the full version of the games here, too. Catholic Doors Ministry has a number of interesting Catholic games at catholicdoors.com/games; favorites include Ask Jesus!, Help Baby Jesus, Hidden Word, Tic-Tac-Toe and Wipe the Glass. The Society of the Divine Word has made available some simple games. Go to svd-ca.com/games. The Memorare Web site has a section called Catechism Funhouse. It's at memorare.com/games/index.html. I like this quote from St. John Bosco found at the top of this page: “Enjoy yourself as much as you like — if only you keep from sin.” The Catholic Community Forum has a couple of games: Who wants to be a Saint? and Bingo. They're at www.catholic-forum.com/games.html The Daughters of St. Paul have My Friend Fun & Games page at myfriendmagazine.com/games/index.html. Here you will find both interactive and printable games with three levels of difficulty. — Brother John Raymond http://www.ncregister.com/

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BY Brother John Raymond This month I would like to concentrate on the sacrament of penance and reconciliation on the Web. The Register has an excellent guide to confession and examinations of conscience for adults and children at www.ncregister.com Read Pope John Paul II's 2002 apostolic letter on confession, Misericordia Dei, at: www.vatican.va/holy_father/john _paul_ii/apost_letters Catholic Answers has a couple of interesting tracts related to this sacrament: “Confession,” according the Fathers of the Church, and “Forgiveness of Sins.” Check out:catholic.com/library/sacra ments.asp. St. Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologiae looks at penance in detail. See the Tertia Pars & Supplementum Tertia Partislinks at newadvent.org/summa/. The Church of Our Saviour in New York City offers a helpful article titled “How to Make a Good Confession.” See oursaviournyc.org/How_To_Make_A_G ood_Confession.htm. For more links on this topic see the reconciliation category in my online directory at monksofadoration.org/reconcil.html. — Brother John Raymond http://www.ncregister.com/

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BY Brother John Raymond There's no time like Holy Week to look at the Stations of the Cross online. Jerusalem – The Way of the Cross at 198.62.75.5/www 1/ofm/ TVCmain.html, posted by the Franciscans and Michael Olteanu, director of Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi, shows those Holy Places Jesus walked on the way to his cross. Definitely a good place to start. To use the Stations of the Cross written by Cardinal John Newman in 1860, go to landru.i-link-2.net/shnyves/The_Way_of_the_C ross.html. A Salesian Way of the Cross, based on the writings of St. Francis de Sales, can be found at webdesk.com/catholic/prayers/salesia nwayofthecross.html. The Stations of the Cross for the Victims of Abortion, written by Jesuit Father Cletus Healy, is at www.nd.edu/~mary/Stations.html; it's certainly apt for today. The Way of the Cross of a Migrant at cjd.org/stories/ cross. html was posted by Casa Juan Diego, a Catholic Worker house for immigrants and refugees. The Monks of Adoration's Stabat Mater Stations at monksofadoration.org/stabmats.html contain the Stations of the Cross with pictures, text and audio to pray along with. The Stabat Mater Stations are unique in that they combine the traditional Stabat Mater hymn melody with meditations on each station in poetic form. http://www.ncregister.com/

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BY Jim Cosgrove For this month's picks, we will concentrate on Catholic news sites. Zenit, the Catholic news service at zenit.org, titles its Web site “The World Seen From Rome.” Here you will find Catholic news in six different languages. Choose among the latest news, daily news dispatches, weekly news analysis and Church documents. You can search the news archive and sign up to receive news by e-mail as well. Catholic World News at cwnews.com has the current day's news of interest to Catholics. Archived news is organized by geographical continents and categories like “family.” Archival searching is available, too. Subscribers get complete Catholic news coverage, a headline digest from major secular news sources, commentaries, resources and more. Webmasters might be interested in looking into their free “News Ticker.” The Vatican's Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples has an English-language news site at fides.org/eng. Here you can find “360° News,” meaning coverage from around the world. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has a news section at usccb.org/news/index.htm. The Vatican has its news services listed at vatican.va/news_services. The Catholic Nexus at catholicnexus.com wants to be “Your Catholic Media Portal.” Here you will find short summaries of news stories including their sources that you can click on to find out more. Want more Catholic news? See my “News Agencies” category at monksofadoration.org/newstext.html. http://www.ncregister.com/

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BY Brother John Raymond This month let's look at the Bible online. Catholicfirst.com has a Bible Names Dictionary containing 2,500 Bible and Bible-related proper names and their meanings at catholicfirst.com/TheFaith/Bible/BibleNames/b iblenames.htm. You may want to look up your name's meaning out of curiosity. On the “Catholic First” main page, you will find a link to the Douay-Rheims Bible and a biblical search engine as well for this version. Looking for a different version of the Bible? Head over to the bishops' site for the New American Bible at nccbuscc.org/nab/bible. St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Picayune, Miss., has an online Bible study based on the Liturgical Calendar at scborromeo.org/bible. htm. A Catholic quick-reference doctrinal concordance can be found at infpage.com/concordance. It is not a comprehensive concordance, but it is helpful in researching aspects of the faith on which Catholics and other Christians disagree. It's available in French and Spanish, also. It's always a good idea to check with the Catechism of the Catholic Church on Sacred Scripture at scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s1c2a3.htm. I would recommend reading the whole section on Divine Revelation beginning at scborromeo.org/ccc/p1s1c 2a1.htm. There are many more links concerning various biblical topics found in my online directory Bible category at monksofadoration.org/Bibletxt.html. http://www.ncregister.com/

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BY Jim Cosgrove This month's picks deal with Purgatory. Always a good place to start, the Catechism of the Catholic Church has the definitive summary on Purgatory. Go to sections 1030-1032 at scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a12.-htm. Next, you will want to read what Pope John Paul II said about Purgatory during his 1999 Wednesday Audience at vatican.va/-holy_father/john_paul_ii/audiences/1999/documents/hf_jpii_aud_04081999_en.html. For those who want to do more in-depth research on Purgatory, read what St. Thomas Aquinas had to say about it in his Summa Theologiae at newadvent.org/summa/700100.htm A substantial treatise on Purgatory can be found in the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia at newadvent.org/cathen/12575a.htm. Indulgence information has been changed since this encyclopedia edition. See the Enchiridion of Indulgences at ourladyswarriors.-org/indulge for up-to-date information. The Friends of the Suffering Souls at http://1earth.net/~foss is an organization that assists the souls in Purgatory by arranging for Masses to be offered each and every day of the year for their benefit and especially for the benefit of deceased members. For more Purgatory sites, see my Purgatory category in my online Catholic Internet Yellow Pages at monksofadoration.org/purgator.ht ml. To order Catholics on the Internet by Brother John Raymond, call Prima Publishing at (800) 632-8676. http://www.ncregister.com/

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