Course Description: This course is designed to introduce learners to the Bible and help them understand, love, and live by Scripture. It will help them understand:

• The meaning of inspiration, historical development, and literary criticism
• The primary themes and basic concepts in Scripture, including covenant, kingdom, creation, salvation, and conversion
• The scriptural foundations for Catholic moral teaching, conscience formation, and decision-making
• The use of Scripture in theological reflection
• God's revelation in Creation, the person of Jesus, and lived experience
• Jesus' life, mission, death, and Resurrection

Course Requirements: Complete the four online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.

Course Description: This course is designed to help participants develop the skills required to proclaim Christ in today's world. It will:

• Bring individuals to a clear knowledge of Jesus Christ as true God and true man
• Clarify the Church's teachings about the nature and life of Jesus Christ
• Help bring individuals into a personal relationship with the living Christ
• Help seekers understand why Jesus is the example and guide for their lives
• Help seekers worship the living God through Christ and in the Spirit

Course Requirements: Complete the two online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.

Course Description: This course presents a theological study of the Church with a particular focus on the Church as "communion" and "mission." It follows the vision of the Second Vatican Council in explaining the nature and identity of the Church. It will help participants:

• Understand what it means to build the Kingdom of God
• Understand the Church's evangelizing activity in the world: to transform human society in the light of the Gospel
• See that being one, holy, catholic, and apostolic is both what the Church is, as well as what the Church is called to become
• Understand the role of Mary in the life of the Church

Course Requirements: Complete the two online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.

Course Description: The history of the Church is the story of faith handed on, of how fallible human people have struggled to live out the Gospel in the very concrete circumstances of their lives for two thousand years. This course will help participants:

• Understand that the entire Church is responsible for the conservation and transmission of the Gospel message
• Examine ten of the most important events in the life and history of the Church
• Understand why some knowledge of the depths and riches of the past help nourish the ministry of the Church today

Course Requirements: Complete the two online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.

Course Description: This course is an introduction to the history, theology, and pastoral practice of the Church's liturgy and her sacraments.  It will help participants:

• Realize how the liturgy is understood as the work of the Church and the work of God
• Examine the sacraments as visible signs
• Understand how and why the sacraments confer the gift of grace
• Clarify the meaning of "the institution of the sacraments by Christ"
• Examine a brief history of the early development of each of the seven sacraments
• Grasp the importance of Baptism as the sacramental action of the Church that makes us Christian and Catholic
• Examine the theological and pastoral implications of the Church's sacramental life

Course Requirements: Complete the two online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.

Course Description: This course emphasizes that the Christian moral life begins with the experience that we are loved by God in an unimaginable, unfathomable way and that living faithfully is our attempt to respond to the gift of that love. This course will help participants:

• Understand the meaning of Christian morality
• Explain why morally good choices lead to true human fulfillment
• Examine and explain what the true human goods are and why they lead to human fulfillment in this life and in the next
• Clarify what is meant by "loving others"
• Realize and embrace the Christian's moral responsibility to take an active role in the work of establishing the reign of God

Course Requirements: Complete the two online tutorials and submit the completed corresponding course materials to the Searchlight Virtual School.