The education channel
Practical training and straight talk for the people who keep parishes and the Curia running.
What it is
SETONacademy is the diocesan front door for practical training and tools. Topics span the things clergy and parish staff actually deal with — AI, cybersecurity, websites, networking, physical security, data protection, and compliance. Every piece of content is built around tested material people can use in their actual workflows, not abstract training modules.
Training, tools, and straight talk for clergy and parishes.
A curated library of AI prompts for clergy and staff, plus literacy training and use-policy guidance. Built around Copilot, Claude, and NotebookLM.
Open AIShort-video briefings on the threats parish staff actually encounter — starting with the Cybersecurity Minute series on AI prompt injection, expanding to phishing, endpoint hygiene, and incident response.
Watch the seriesAnalysis and performance tools for parish websites, plus practical guidance for the people maintaining them. The free Seton Site Check is live now.
Run a Site CheckParish Wi-Fi, hardware, and connectivity, in plain language. What to ask your vendor, what to fix yourself, and what's worth paying someone to handle.
Coming this fallLocks, cameras, access control, and the practical questions parishes face about church, school, and office security. Built for the people making the decisions, not the contractors selling the systems.
Coming this fallRecords, retention, sacramental privacy, and what to do when a request, breach, or subpoena arrives. The work behind the policy.
Coming this fallAudit readiness, the Bishop's competency standards, and the regulatory questions that come up around finance, employment, and ministry operations.
Coming this fallShort, practical material that respects your time. Briefings you can act on between appointments.
Secretaries, business managers, parish life coordinators. The people running the day-to-day.
Training that respects the pastoral register of your work, with privacy and policy guidance built in.
Chancery, finance, IT, communications, pastoral services. Higher-leverage material for cross-cutting roles.
Every topic on SETONacademy is built around material we've tested ourselves. This is not a wiki.
Every piece of content is run by Seton staff against actual diocesan workflows before it goes live.
Generic training doesn't ship. Each item spells out who it's for and what it produces in practice.
Where it matters — data sensitivity, sacramental privacy, vendor relationships — guidance is built in, not bolted on.
Edited for the SETONacademy register — direct, practical, pastoral when appropriate, never preachy.
AI, Cybersecurity, and Websites are live. The rest follows across the year.
Open AI Open Cybersecurity Open Websites