Jun 15 2010
Looks Interesting: My Catholic Faith Delivered
http://www.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com/Home.aspx
I have not had time to go through the sample lessons, but they are offering Faith and Life and Didache via an online interface. This text is from the Leon Suprenant:
For over a decade I worked for Catholics United for the Faith (CUF), which authored the Faith and Life series published by Ignatius Press.
During my time with CUF I was so edified by all the amazing endorsements we received. I also saw that Faith and Life was a particular favorite of many homeschooling families. Our family has used it all along.
This brings me to why I’m writing. I now work for an online Catholic learning center called My Catholic Faith Delivered (www.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com). We strive to combine the finest catechetical courses/programs with state-of-the-art, interactive technology, as Pope Benedict has encouraged us to do in his recent World Communications Days addresses.
We now offer for this fall the Faith and Life series in an online format. It has everything that the book version has, but so much more to engage the children! We also have three years of the Didache high school series ready as well.
Here’s something I posted on our blog last week about Faith and Life:
http://blog.mycatholicfaithdelivered.com/post/Faith-and-Life-Is-Now-Online!.aspx
Sincerely in Christ,
Leon Suprenant
My Catholic Faith Delivered
One response so far
I am the President and CEO of CatechismClass.com. I would like to point out that the idea of offering online catechetical programs like this from MyCatholicFaithDelievered is not new. In fact, my company began this process back in 2004.
The Goldhead Group Ltd (parent company of CatechismClass.com) launched a new catechetical program several years ago for the greater Catholic Church that allows parents to fulfill their obligations to educate their children in the Faith in the comfort and convenience of their own home.
The Credo, an online 30 lesson program, provides sound, authentic, comprehensive catechesis to students in K-12. This program is designed for home usage but can also be used as the foundation for a conventional parish based program.
The Goldhead Group Ltd created CatechismClass.com as an online Catholic Education entity/apostolate dedicated to providing catechesis to Catholics from the cradle to the grave. CatechismClass.com currently provides Adult and children catechetical lessons as well as a complete Sacramental Preparation Program, Short Courses on Moral Issues, and a wonderful line up of Book Summaries taken from the best Catholic classic and contemporary literary works.
CatechismClass.com is currently undergoing a major change in its program and will launch in August individual package lessons for each grade level written by distinguished individuals including Fr. James D. Zatalava, Fr. Joseph C. Nale, Dr. Heather Erb, Mr. Fred Erb, and Shannon Jones.
Fr. Zatalava created CatechismClass.com because he noticed this catechetical void in many parishes and because he discovered, simultaneously with the US Bishops, that the popular catechetical materials in use today are “abysmal” and “sorely lacking.”
Market research conducted around the time of the Credo program’s launch showed that there are 65 million Catholics in the US alone, 7,027,235 are involved in some type of Catholic catechetical program. of which are children. Given the reaction to the Daily Catechism program and the numerous requests from parishes, pastors and even bishops for the creation of a standardized, more “conventional” program, there is clearly a demand for this particular product.
CatechismClass.com has an Episcopal advisor (Bishop Vasa) as well as other interested Bishops who have expressed interest in furthering this project.
With our past success and with the scheduled launch of our new grade-level based packages, I am highly confident that the products we have offered and will continue to offer for years will be of the highest quality.