WEBSITES & APPS
Here you can find helpful links, prayers, and content essential to recovery and a spiritual way of life. Stay tuned as this continues to develop and grow.
RECOVERY RESOURCES
WEBSITES
The CIR+ membership website is where you can join a community committed to recovery and the sacramental life of the Catholic Church. You’ll gain access to life-saving resources to sustain you on your recovery and spiritual journey. And as a CIR+ Premium member, your financial support will help Catholic in Recovery offer hope and healing to those recovering from addictions, compulsions, and unhealthy attachments as well as their loved ones.
The Catholic in Recovery Blog is where you can find reflections, testimonies, advice, insight, and more on a Catholic approach to addiction recovery.
Integrity Restored is a great resource provided by Dr. Peter Kleponis to help men, their wives and their families break free from the bonds of porn. The site provides resources and tools to encounter healing in the midst of suffering, and maintains Catholic virtues and principles to encounter the blessings of a new freedom.
Made in His Image is a non-profit organization established by Maura Preszler. Its mission is to begin a dialogue, a discussion, in a safe and compassionate setting, to foster hope and healing, and to empower women to turn from victim to survivor. They share healing for women suffering from eating disorders, sexual abuse, and physical trauma.
SMART PHONE APPS
Twelve Steps – ‘The Companion’ App — available on iPhone/iPad and Android — offers users the ability to track their sobriety, access written material around recovery, maintain recovery contacts, and journal. This offers all the resources of a twelve step meeting on your mobile device.
CHRISTIAN RESOURCES
WEBSITES
Word on Fire Catholic Ministries is a nonprofit global media apostolate that supports the work of Bishop Robert Barron and reaches millions of people to draw them into— or back to— the Catholic faith. The resources (articles, videos, scripture studies, and more) have an impressive ability to bring understanding to rather deep and difficult topics. Bishop Barron and other contributors to Word on Fire present very relatable topics to modern day and the culture that we live in today. Moreover, Bishop Barron often ties his biblical reflections with the principles of the Twelve Steps.
Restless Pilgrim is an assortment of thoughts by David Bates, a well-traveled Englishman. David shares his personal experience around the faith and provides a great collection of topics including theology, apologetics, and current events.
The Vatican Website is a reliable source of Catholic Church documents, speeches and homilies from the Holy Father Pope Francis and Popes across the last century. This is a very rich website full of historical documents, encyclicals, and archives of the church. Here you can also find the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops – A good source for daily bible readings, information about the saints, daily meditations, and more.
SMART PHONE APPS
Laudate—available on iPhone/iPad and Android platforms—is a comprehensive Catholic app that provides daily readings, a large variety of prayers, podcasts, meditations, and the New American Bible.