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The Mission Continues.
A lesson can outlive the person who first taught it.
For centuries, Catholics have answered a call: go where people are, share the faith, and help the next generation learn.
Franciscan missionaries carried the Gospel into communities far from home. Jesuit educators built schools and institutions devoted to faith and learning. Alongside them, generations of sisters, brothers, priests, parents, teachers, and benefactors passed on an inheritance they hoped would endure.
They traveled difficult roads. They opened books. They gathered communities around the work of teaching.
That inheritance has reached us.
Today, a lesson can cross an ocean through an internet connection. A printable activity can help a catechist prepare a class. A parent can find an answer to the question a child asks at the kitchen table.
Through Catholic Online and Your Catholic Voice Foundation, this work is already underway.
Our mission is to provide a free, world-class Catholic education for anyone, anywhere.
Now we invite you to help carry it forward.
A Worldwide Mission. Already at Work.
Discover what Catholics have already helped make possible.
2.2 MILLION
Student enrollments through Catholic Online School
193 COUNTRIES
Represented in Catholic Online School’s reach
6,000+
Free Catholic PDFs and learning resources
10,000+
Free video lessons through Catholic Online School
Behind these numbers are opportunities to learn: a child exploring Scripture, a parent preparing a family activity, a teacher finding a lesson, an adult returning to questions of faith.
Thousands have joined the World Catholic Education Alliance. Our media presence includes more than 8,000 YouTube videos, approximately 3 million Facebook followers, and more than 200,000 Instagram followers.
Together, these educational resources, communities, and channels give the Catholic Mission a foundation for reaching further.
Join WCEA free and find your starting point in this worldwide Catholic education mission.
Now It Is Our Turn.
Our generation’s responsibility is to pass on the faith.
Somewhere today, a child will ask, “Who is Jesus?”
A parent will look for help explaining a prayer. A teacher will prepare tomorrow’s lesson. Someone who has been away from the Church will begin searching for a way home.
We want faithful Catholic learning to be within reach at those moments.
The tools available to us are changing. Books, classrooms, printables, video, and digital technology can all serve the same purpose: helping people encounter Jesus Christ and understand the faith.
Pope Leo XIV told Catholic digital missionaries:
“It is not simply a matter of generating content, but of creating an encounter of hearts.”
That is the work before us.
We are inviting Catholics to learn, teach, share, and support a mission that reaches into ordinary life—one lesson, one family, one community at a time.
No Child Should Be Shut Out of Catholic Education.
Help bring learning within reach of more families.
In the early 1960s, nearly 13,000 Catholic schools served more than 5.2 million students across the United States.
In the 2025–2026 school year, 5,829 Catholic schools served approximately 1.67 million students.
The number of schools has fallen by more than half.
For a family facing tuition it cannot afford, or living far from a Catholic school, access to Catholic learning can be difficult. Parents, teachers, and parish catechists also need practical resources they can use with the children already in their care.
Free Catholic courses and downloadable materials can help.
They can support a parish lesson, strengthen learning at home, and give a family a place to begin.
We want Catholic schools to flourish. We also want Catholic learning to reach beyond their walls.
Every child deserves the opportunity to know Jesus Christ.
A Whole Catholic World to Explore.
Start with something your family, classroom, or parish can use today.
More than 6,000 free PDFs and learning resources are waiting at Catholic Online Learning Resources: Scripture activities, prayers, saints’ materials, coloring pages, lessons, and sacramental formation resources.
Download a resource. Share a lesson. Sit beside a child and begin.
LEARN AND TEACH
Catholic Online School offers free courses and video lessons. Catholic Online Learning Resources puts practical materials into your hands. Through Catholic Create, you can request a personalized printable resource for your family, class, or parish; our team reviews what it can fulfill. The World Catholic Education Alliance helps people find their way into this wider collection of learning.
READ, PRAY, AND GROW
Catholic Online at catholic.org connects people with Scripture, saints, prayers, and Catholic teaching. Catholic Online News brings reporting and commentary. Prayer Candles offers another way to take part in prayer and devotion.
DISCOVER THROUGH STORY AND HISTORY
Journey with the Messiah, Journey with the Saints, and Journey with Our Lady of Guadalupe invite people to explore faith through storytelling. Faith Detectives brings Catholic mystery adventures to young readers. California Missions explores the history of the 21 missions.
EQUIP TODAY’S LEADERS AND PREPARE FOR TOMORROW
Parish Leadership in the AI Age helps priests consider how digital communication and artificial intelligence can support their work. CatholicOnline.ai is being developed to help people find and understand Catholic teaching through responsible technology. ShareNetwork.ai focuses on Catholic social doctrine and community. Journey with the Incorruptibles is also included in the Catholic Mission, with its website still to be announced.
HELP THE WORK CONTINUE
Catholic Online Shopping helps support the educational mission through its retail work. HorizonMedia.ai connects media and advertising with support for the Catholic Mission.
Join WCEA free for an organized resource directory and a getting-started guide. Then choose Catholic learning resources that fit your family, classroom, or parish.
Help Keep the Next Lesson Free.
WCEA Community Membership is free. Donations are optional.
A free lesson still needs someone to prepare it. A worldwide school still needs people and technology behind it.
Your gift through Catholic Online School’s giving page helps sustain free courses, educational content, and the people and technology that keep those lessons available.
Supporting the School strengthens an essential part of the wider Catholic Mission.
We charge students nothing for our Catholic Online School courses. Generous supporters help keep that door open.
Please consider giving $20 a month, or an amount that is right for you.
A gift of $2.75 a month is welcome. One-time gifts also help.
You may never sit beside the person who learns because of your generosity.
You can still help make that lesson possible.
Find Your Place in the Mission.
Join the World Catholic Education Alliance.
Come to deepen your own faith, help your family learn, equip your classroom, or support your parish.
Start with a free Community Membership in the World Catholic Education Alliance. You receive an organized resource directory, a getting-started guide, and links to Catholic courses, PDFs, prayers, and stories.
Choose a resource. Put it to use. Invite someone else to begin.
FREE COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP
A practical place to find Catholic learning and take your first step.
OPTIONAL WAYS TO SUPPORT THE MISSION
Mission Partner ($10/month USD) adds curated learning guides, a guide archive, and quarterly mission progress updates. Mission Builder ($30/month USD) includes those benefits plus quarterly mission briefings and group Q&A, recordings, and selected previews and feedback opportunities.
Existing free courses and resources remain free. These paid memberships are optional.
After joining, sign in, open Members Welcome, and explore the Learning Library. Some linked platforms require a separate account.
There is a place for you in this work.
One Mission. One Foundation.
Powered by Your Catholic Voice Foundation.
Your Catholic Voice Foundation is the nonprofit organization behind The Catholic Mission.
Through Catholic Online and this family of educational, prayer, storytelling, media, and technology initiatives, we work to help people encounter Jesus Christ and grow in the Catholic faith.
Our commitment is to serve faithfully, with Catholic teaching rooted in Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, the Catechism, and the Magisterium.
Our mission brings together the people who learn, the people who teach, and the people whose generosity helps make access possible.
Learners, Families. Teachers & Educators. Catechists. Parishes. Dioceses. Supporters. Each has a part to play.
If you represent a school, parish, diocese, business, or foundation, we welcome a conversation about how your community can participate.
Help us carry useful Catholic learning to the people you serve.
The Next Chapter Begins With You.
Join WCEA free and take your first step in our worldwide Catholic education mission.
The school is serving learners. The resource library is available. The community is growing.
Our next chapter is to help more people discover and use this work: more families learning at home, more teachers finding practical materials, more parishes supporting formation, and more communities sharing resources.
The longer-term vision includes wider language access and carefully developed Catholic tools for a changing digital world.
You can take part today.
LEARN
Join WCEA as a free Community Member and choose a place to begin.
SHARE
Introduce a useful course or resource to a family, teacher, or parish.
GIVE
Help keep Catholic education available through a one-time or monthly gift.
FOLLOW
Visit our impact page to see the mission’s reported reach and follow the development of our work.
A child can carry a lesson for a lifetime. A family can pass the faith from one generation to the next.
The faith we have received is ours to share.
Join the World Catholic Education Alliance free today.