To better enable follow-up on each section in The Catholic Navigator and The Catholic Tugboatweekly issues, we strive to base our sources on reliable online Catholic materials. Our hope is to make you, the mobile Catholic, better able to learn as you go about your daily life. However, occasionally we have had to source our commentary only from print material, for which we provide the pertinent information for ordering from a library or book seller. All links have been accessed just prior to posting to assure that they are currently active. To access sources to print editions, move your cursor over the listing for the issue of interest and click to open.
*A Note about Weekly Sources: Please note that the source references below refer to article titles in The Catholic Navigator (N) and The Catholic Tugboat (T). The two publications are designed to relate closely to each other, though the content is written appropriate to the intended readers.
This Month's Source Materials
The Fleet Sources – 18 January 2026 – 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time- 8-A
In the Year…165-180 A.D. (N)
Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the World Christian Movement, Volume I: Earliest Christianity to 1453. Marynoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2001.
Stark, Rodney. The Rise of Christianity. San Francisco: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1997 (pp. 83-94)
The Code of Canon Law states, “For an infant to be baptized lawfully, it is required that the parents, or at least one of them, or the person who lawfully holds their place, give their consent” (868). http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_INDEX.HTM
Salvation History: The Great Flood (T)
With your parents read Genesis 6:5 through 9:17 for the story of the Flood.
The Fleet Sources -4 January 2026 – The Epiphany of Our Lord- 6-A
Chasing Holiness (N)
Giles, Mary E. trans. Francisco de Osuna,The Third Spiritual Alphabet. Mahwah, N.J.: The Classics of Western Spirituality; Paulist Press, 1981.
Parents’ note: The above link is to a page on a wonderful site for children originating in England but addressing aspect of Christmas around the world. The home page is a great place to start: http://www.whychristmas.com/
Our Salvation History: Cain and Abel (N)
The Didache Bible, With Commentary based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church, NEW AMERICAN BIBLE, Revised Edition. Downers Grove, IL: Midwest Theological Forum, Inc., 2015.
*see commentary, p. 19, fn. for Genesis 4:3-7 box at bottom used for Catechetical references
