Most Catholic parishes that stream do so from their own website, or from a parish account on YouTube, Facebook or a parish app. This directory collects those official destinations so you can reach them without guessing which of a dozen re-uploads is the real parish. Right now 332 of the churches listed here have a stream that has passed the checks described below.
Finding a stream
Start at the online Mass page, which lists upcoming scheduled services from churches with a checked official destination. For a particular parish or town, search the church directory by name, city or postal code, or browse by state and province or by diocese. On a church profile, a stream appears with the platform it lives on and the service it belongs to, and the button opens the parish's own page in a new tab.
If a parish you know is listed without a stream, that usually means either that it does not stream or that we have not yet found and checked an official source for it. Both are common: 3,453 of the 3,785 churches listed here have no checked stream recorded.
What “verified” and “last checked” mean here
Verified records a substantive review of the evidence behind a stream: that the destination belongs to the parish or its diocese rather than to a third party, that it carries Mass or Divine Liturgy rather than a talk or a concert, and that it supports the language claimed for it. A working video page on its own is not enough.
Last checked records the most recent time the destination itself was fetched and found reachable. It is a technical check, not a fresh reading of the parish's schedule.
A stream appears while it meets the listing checks and the underlying service is still within any published date range. Older check dates remain visible with a reminder to confirm with the parish; their age alone does not remove a stream. Neither label ever means a service is broadcasting at this moment. The dates guide goes through every date label on the site.
We link out; we never embed
This site does not host, mirror, embed or restream any liturgy. Every watch button is an ordinary outbound link to the parish's or diocese's own page. The parish keeps its audience and its control over the recording, you get what the parish actually published rather than a copy of it, and the parish's own privacy practices apply once you follow the link.
Does watching online fulfil the Sunday obligation?
For someone who is able to attend in person, no. This is worth setting out carefully, with sources.
The Code of Canon Law says at canon 1247 that “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the Mass.” Canon 1248 §1 then explains how that obligation is satisfied: “A person who assists at a Mass celebrated anywhere in a Catholic rite either on the feast day itself or in the evening of the preceding day satisfies the obligation.” Canon 1248 §2 addresses the case where attending is impossible “because of the absence of a sacred minister or for another grave cause”, and recommends taking part in a liturgy of the word or devoting time to prayer alone, as a family or in groups of families. It does not describe a broadcast as satisfying the obligation.
Bishops applied exactly that reasoning during the pandemic. When the Ohio bishops reinstated the obligation in June 2021, their statement said that “Masses that are broadcast through various media are not intended as a substitute nor do they fulfill the obligation for the persons who are able to gather for a Sunday celebration”, and that broadcasts serve those who cannot attend — the sick, the homebound and the imprisoned (Diocese of Cleveland).
A bishop can dispense. Canon 1245, with canon 87, allows a diocesan bishop to dispense his faithful and allows a parish priest to dispense in individual cases for a just cause. That is what happened in 2020: general dispensations were granted across the United States and Canada and then withdrawn at different dates. The Archdiocese of Toronto, for instance, granted a dispensation on 13 March 2020 and ended it on 1 June 2022, while noting that anyone who cannot attend for a grave reason “are excused from their Sunday obligation, as the law of the Church allows” (Archdiocese of Toronto).
So: if illness, care duties, distance, disability or another grave reason keeps you away, you are excused, and a livestream is a long-standing way to stay joined to the parish's prayer. If you can get to a church, the stream is a supplement rather than a substitute. Dispensations are set diocese by diocese, so if this affects a real decision, ask your parish rather than relying on this page.