New Catholic Encyclopedia

As The Catholic Encyclopedia, originally published between 1907 and 1914, the forbears of this well‐known reference work took on the status of a standard encyclopedia about Catholicism, above all in the USA. That 15‐volume work (volumes 1 to 14 were published between 1907 and 1912, and volume 15 was the index, published 1914) was regarded as a major achievement in Catholic scholarship. Because it was recognized as a classic for what it said about Catholic doctrine, history and biography, it has more recently been converted into an online work‐in‐progress by Kevin Knight, who is Web‐enabling the contents for wider...