Areas to be addressed by the Envoy Institute include the following:

1. The primacy of conscience: “Is it right for me to do whatever I think is best?” (Training in these areas: what is conscience, how does it relate to authority and the Church, how do I form my conscience, etc.)
2. Truth and tolerance, the relationship of the Catholic worldview to various modern worldviews:  Moral relativism on campus and in the world (how to logically understand it, what are the assumptions underlying moral relativism, how will it be manifested in arguments and college life, etc.)
3. Faith and reason: “Don’t I have to pick one or the other?” (intellectual maturity, critical thinking skills)
4. Suffering and all the evil I see:  “How does this make sense if there’s a God?”
5. Catholic social teaching: “What is social justice and how can I serve it?”
6. Moral challenges in today’s culture:  “How can I make sense of and know what is right?”  (Chastity, gambling, pornography, entertainment, recreation, ‘partying’, and all the other cultural artifacts of college life)
7. “All religions are simply ways to reach God—at the core, they’re all the same...right?”  (Catholicism’s relation to other religions, God's revelation, Scripture, tradition, salvation history, etc.)
8. Prayer: “So what does God want me to do—and how can He expect me to do it?” (The crux of the problem of despair and hopelessness)
9. “I’m a spiritual person but I don’t need all this organized religion.” (Understanding the sacraments and our need for them, Church organization)
10. Apologetics and catechesis: “How can I know, defend, and explain the Faith?” (for non-Christians, Christians, Catholics)
11. The modern “professionalization” of morality as the domain of medical, legal, and political  authorities, i.e. how moral issues are being put into the ‘public square’ and then we’re told that religious perspectives on them must remain private:  “Don’t legislate your morality and stop standing in the way of science!” (Pro-life issues, growing bio-ethical issues, and legal attacks on Catholic morality: the conflict between God and Caesar)