YouTube Goes Catholic! Videos from Bishops, Priests and the Laity!

YouTube has a wonderful selection of orthodox Catholic content!

Unfortunately, it also has some awful, sacrilegious, foul content -- so I did some very careful searching and sorting, and found the videos below. All of these are from Roman Catholic sources that are faithful and orthodox. Be a thoughtful consumer of Internet content -- be wary of clicking on any of the other videos that YouTube will automatically offer to you -- be discerning and evaluate the source.

The Vatican: http://www.youtube.com/user/vatican Straight from the Vatican to you -- recent statements by Pope Benedict VXI, latest news, Vatican Radio, press releases and more.

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops videos:

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.youtube.com/user/usccb Our Bishops speak out on current issues facing US Catholics. Videos on conscience protection for health care workers, poverty, faithful citizenship, etc.

For Your Marriage Campaign: http://www.youtube.com/user/foryourmarriage Fun videos interviewing married couples around the country, asking them "What have you done for your marriage today?"

Campaign to Reduce Poverty in America by Catholic Charities USA: http://www.youtube.com/user/ReducePoverty An excellent introductory video describing the plight of millions of Americans and what we as Catholics can do.

Catholic Charities USA: voices from the people: http://www.youtube.com/user/CCUSA2008 Hear directly from real Americans who are struggling; understand the stories and challenges of the working poor.

Other Catholic Videos Affliliated with Bishops:

The Catholic Sun: http://www.youtube.com/user/thecatholicsun Videos from the Catholic newspaper serving the Diocese of Phoenix. See topics ranging from immigration reform to making your iPhone a Catholic resource!

Daily Mass from the Catholic Bishops of Canada: http://www.youtube.com/user/dailymass

Star Quest Production Network (SQPN) Affilitates (Non-Profit Apostolates)

That Catholic Show: http://www.youtube.com/user/gregwillits, or http://thatcatholicshow.sqpn.com/ Humorous and warm looks into how to live everyday life as Catholics in the real world.

SQPN - Fr. Roderick: http://www.youtube.com/user/rvonhogen, or http://sqpn.com/ Variety of shows by Catholic priest, Fr. Roderick Vonhogen. "Godspeed!" takes you on tours of Cathedrals around Europe, "Healthy Catholic" discusses bodily and spiritual health, "Catholic Minute" provides a pot pourri of Catholic topics, "Catholic Insider" takes you around Rome, the Vatican, and other places in the world.

What Have You Done For Your Marriage Today?

Our bishops have a wonderful website and You Tube video series to help us enrich our marriages, whether we are preparing for marriage or are old hands: http://www.foryourmarriage.org/

Money tight?

Check out ten inexpensive ways to share and celebrate your love, from picnics to an evening with no TV to midnight bowling.

Having some bumps in the road?

The website has resources for cultivating a healthy relationship, day by day.

Want to hear other people’s stories on You Tube?

The Bishop's popular media campaign simply asks the question, "What Have You Done For Your Marriage Today?" Think about it! The little things matter! We all have to work at it to give our spouse quality time and priority. On "You Tube", hear the honest responses of many real life couples -- very heart warming! http://www.youtube.com/user/foryourmarriage

"For Your Marriage" is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

I heard about this initiative on Catholic Radio Weekly, a program of the Catholic Communication Campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. http://www.usccb.org/ccc/crw.shtml

Vatican Channel on You Tube

The newest star on You Tube is none other than His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican Channel opened its digital door today on You Tube, offering Papal speeches and event coverage to the world: http://www.youtube.com/vatican

The channel is part of a Vatican-Google partnership. You can now use a Google search engine on the Vatican's website: http://www.vatican.va. Along with the usual Google search results page, the State of Vatican City Coat of Arms appears in the corner.

In his letter for World Communications Day (http://www.pccs.it/Doc_GMCS_eng.htm), the Pope urged young people to use the new technology to develop true friendship and evangelize, just like the Apostles. "It falls, in particular, to young people, who have an almost spontaneous affinity for the new means of communication, to take on the responsibility for the evangelization of this "digital continent". Be sure to announce the Gospel to your contemporaries with enthusiasm. You know their fears and their hopes, their aspirations and their disappointments: the greatest gift you can give to them is to share with them the "Good News" of a God who became man, who suffered, died and rose again to save all people," he wrote.

Contact Steve Pehanich, spehanich@cacatholic.org, for more information.

Source: Catholic Legislative Network “Public Policy Insights” from the Diocese of Oakland and the California Catholic Conference.