A feature video on the miracle of life.

New Haven, CT. March 19, 2009. CatholicMediaHouse.com and Catholic.net have formed a media alliance to offer users faith formation videos on the Catholic.net home page.

CatholicMediaHouse.com, based in West Hollywood, California, is a lay apostolate that works to help the Church in the New Evangelization by providing modern media resources that convey the gospel message through iconography, videography, graphic arts, narrative, and soundtrack.

Catholic.net, directed by the Legionaries of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement, is an online Catholic community aimed at evangelizing and building up the Kingdom of Christ through media, information sharing, and online interactive tools.

Now, thanks to a partnership between the two web-based apostolates, video resources are posted on the home page of Catholic.net, making multimedia resources even more accessible to Catholics who are searching for materials that are faithful to the Magisterium of the Church.

Mini-movies for Formation, Inspiration, and Evangelization

CatholicMediaHouse’s purpose is to help

	Multimedia resources for evangelization.

bishops, pastors, priests, deacons, religious brothers and sisters, catechists, youth directors, and teachers who want to “use media in a positive way to re-evangelize the baptized, to disciple and mobilize them for evangelization, and to be a blessing.”

“Our products are primarily designed to be used in bible studies, retreats, camps, youth and children´s ministry, RCIA, faith formation, devotions, rallies, special events and other types of meetings,” states the CatholicMediaHouse web site.

The “mini-movies” posted so far on Catholic.net include two separate categories: “featured videos” and the “top 10 videos.” To access the videos, simply click on the Catholic Media House tab directly under the date.

The current “feature videos” are a series of 5 inspirational Easter and Holy Week videos featuring contemporary music and evocative images. Their purpose is to inspire Catholics to reflection and apostolic action during Holy Week and Easter.

There are also “top 10 videos” on a wide range of topics, from worship to pro-life videos.

An Alliance for Evangelization

Rosalia Tenorio, Director of Catholic.net English, said that Catholic.net is pleased to feature CatholicMediaHouse.com multimedia content because screen production is a powerful evangelization tool.

“We should never change the message, but are called to make the format in which we deliver the Lord’s message ever more appealing to our audience. CatholicMediaHouse.com is helping us achieve just that,” stated Tenorio.

Check out the Catholic.net home page today for a wide range of formation materials, from news, podcasts, and webcasts to feature articles on:

• Life and family issues (chastity, men’s and women’s issues, homosexuality, bioethics, marriage, and parenting)
• Faith and finance (careers, entrepreneurs, moral investing, stewardship)
• Church teaching questions and answers (the Bible, Canon law, basic Catholicism, Church history, and liturgy)
• News and media
• Lifestyle (charity, fitness, pilgrimages, relationships, single, vocation)
• Resources from Scripture and Church teachings (Bible, Catechism, Code of Canon Law, Papal encyclicals)

The Catholic.net web site is also available in French, Spanish, and Slovenian, with partner websites in Italian and German. For more information, visit www.catholic.net.