Our Mission

Building new roads to Emmaus in the digital city

A mother prays over her son at a parish gathering (black-and-white photo)

Growing in Christian faith, hope, and love, with Catholic families, parishes, and dioceses.

In the context of contemporary culture as it is – ever more digital and technological – our mission is to support Christ and Church sometimes through, and with these means, and at other times, despite them.

Embedded in the culture of the United States, we seek to be of recognize that

Without placing faith in our efforts or our activity as an apostolate, but instead by placing it in Jesus, as the Son of God and Christ, we sacrifice for the goals articulated below.

Purpose

Goals of the Catholic.Work Apostolate

Domestic Churches

To unite families with the intention of passing Catholic faith and values on to our children by our homes becoming “little churches”.

Christian Initiation

To contribute to the integral mission of parishes: evangelizing seekers and initiating them as disciples of Christ.

Christian Formation

To contribute to the ongoing formation of Christians as disciples who practice the faith with specific vocations, or callings.

Christian Pathways

Constructing new roads to Emmaus
that utilize new technologies well and order lives beyond them: to the Kingdom of God.

After years of commitment to serving the Church in parish and diocesan positions I realized a complimentary and collaborative model was needed.

This model begins with the imperatives of Jesus: 1) repent 2) believe 3) seek the Kingdom.

But it must not be dependent upon the temporal conditions of the local Church while always being in communion with her.

It would be at the service of dioceses and parishes but not dependent upon their resources and personnel for its apostolate. It would always do this at the discretion of the successors of the Apostles.

Finally, it would be focused on recognition of one’s baptismal identity and the exercise of the priesthood of all the faithful.

Barry SchoedelFounder of Catholic.Work

Our Core Values

Our core values are founded upon the invitation of Christ to be converted and believe in the Gospel.

Faith

We echo the confession of Peter: Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God. Aware of the temptation to look to the Enemy — world, flesh, devil — instead of the Gospel, we do not place our faith in what we do, but in who God is.

We unite our personal faith with the faith of the Church.

Hope

Faith in who God is — instead of what we do — orders our hope to Christ and to the Church as his mystical body. We see hope in God as both an agent and a fruit of Christian faith.

Placing our hope in eternal things is the fundamental condition for following Jesus.

Love

Recognizing that God is love through our faith in Christ, we see Christian love as the way of life Jesus teaches us.

It becomes the practice of charity and faithful presence — walking with others toward Christ, making new roads to Emmaus in the digital city.

Join Us Today

Christ still walks the road with His disciples. “Did not our hearts burn within us while He talked to us on the way?” (Luke 24:32)
Come walk with us as we build new roads to Emmaus in the digital city.

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