Map Legend

A heatmap of Catholic culture. A heatmap of Catholic culture.

Built for mobile young adults — find the parishes, campus ministries, apostolates, schools, retreats, and Catholic businesses that make up the culture of your city. Join us as we help reveal the visible Church.

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Map Legend

College is the easiest time to practice your faith. Then you graduate.

The intergenerational parish — where you were baptized, married, and buried from the same altar — is no longer a given for young adults in a knowledge-worker job market.

Only 1 in 7 college students plan to return home.

Exhibit 1 Explore — the map
  1. The eight keys, mapped
    Every pin is one of the eight key types, color-coded; the numbered circles are clusters — density is the product's core signal.
  2. Key filters
    One tap isolates a single key type — churches, campus ministries, pilgrimage sites, and the rest.
Nave Explore tab — the map of the eight keys over San Francisco
  1. Community-sourced
    Anyone can submit a missing key from the app — the map grows with its users.
  2. Search Catholic culture
    One search bar across all eight categories, nationwide.
  3. Four surfaces
    Explore · Groups · Posts · Profile — map, community, feed, identity.

Each dot is a parish, campus ministry, school, missionary, retreat, pilgrimage site, vocation, or Catholic business; the numbered circles are clusters, and clusters are the point: where the dots pile up, community is happening. A young couple comparing two neighborhoods reads this map the way house-hunters read walkability.

An interactive map of Catholic institutions.

Where the dots pile up, community is happening. A young couple comparing two neighborhoods reads this map the way house-hunters read walkability.

Parishes Campus ministries Schools Missionaries Retreats Pilgrimage sites Vocations Catholic businesses
Explore · The Map
% Catholic heatmap — northeast
% Catholic · Northeast
Community

Groups

Your Catholic community, in one place.

Catholic communities today live scattered across WhatsApp threads, Facebook groups, and Reddit feeds. On Nave, grassroots groups form free around campus ministry and parish life — group chats organized into channels, direct messages, and the networks behind the visible Church: your parish, your campus ministry, the apostolates in your city.

City networks
Campus ministries
Apostolates and parishes
Channels and direct messages
Pricing

Free for every group. Upgrade when you grow.

Groups on Nave are free — start one around your parish, campus ministry, or apostolate today. Upgrade when your community needs more: unlimited history, group calls and video, and organization-wide administration.

FREE
Every group starts here
  • Full map and unlimited groups
  • 90-day message history
  • 1:1 calls
PRO $4.99/mo
Growing communities
  • Unlimited message history
  • Group calls and video
  • Events, polls and integrations
  • Cross-parish channels
ORG+ $9.99/mo
Dioceses, apostolates and nonprofits
  • Organization-wide administration — every parish or chapter under one roof
  • One bill, one dashboard for the whole organization
  • Member provisioning and SSO
  • Advanced controls and priority support
The Network

Catholic networks already exist in every city. They're just hard to find.

Lay apostolates fill the gap where campus ministry leaves off. They are the nodes of Catholic young-adult culture in big cities like Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Apostolates like FOCUS Alumni, SENT Ventures, and The Culture Project are already participating.

The Posts feed carries events, scholarships, jobs, and articles from top apostolates.

Posts · Apostolate Feed
Concierge

Ask Gabe

A concierge for the map.

Ask in plain language — "Where can I find a young-adult group near my new apartment?" — and Gabe answers like a well-connected local friend. He's grounded in the map, not the internet: every answer points to real places already mapped and verified, and recommendations arrive as cards that open the actual dot on the map — from question to front door in two taps.

Plain-language questions
Grounded in the map
Tappable recommendation cards
From question to front door in two taps

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CelebretID

Tap-to-verify credentials for visiting priests. Each enrolled celebrant carries a chancery-issued NFC card; a host parish confirms his live standing by holding the card to a phone — no account, no phone tag with a chancery in another time zone.

The Card A credential carried like a license
  1. Celebrant name
    The card holder, exactly as enrolled by the chancery.
  2. Home diocese
    The issuing chancery — the sole source of truth for his standing.
  3. NFC tap point
    The contactless chip; held to a parish phone to verify.
CelebretID physical tap card — Fr. John Doe, Archdiocese of Philadelphia, exp 02/2027
  1. CelebretID
    The credential type: a celebrant's digital celebret.
  2. Expiry
    Printed for reference; enforced live at every tap.
Verify One tap confirms a visiting priest
  1. Tap the card to verify
    Place the celebrant's CelebretID behind the top of the phone to begin — his live standing arrives from his chancery in about a second. No training, no account.
Verify tab — card-tap verification
  1. Fallbacks — QR and 6-digit code
    No card on hand? Scan the code on the celebrant's phone, or type the 6 digits shown beneath it.
Trips Clear a visit before he travels
  1. Month calendar
    Range-select the visit dates; each planned trip shows a status dot on its day.
  2. Status legend
    Pending (amber), accepted (green), declined (red) — the chancery's decision, color-coded.
Trips tab — calendar of planned out-of-diocese visits
  1. Add trip
    Opens the planner to enter host parish, dates, and sacraments.
  2. Plan bar
    Shows the selected range with its duration and the plan-trip action.
  3. Trip card
    A planned visit with its live status badge and a send-to-parish link — the parish needs no app or account.