Catholic Encyclopedia

The Catholic Encyclopedia, now called by retronym Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an encyclopedia Language English , written between 1907 and 1913 and designed to "authoritative and comprehensive information about the cycle of interest, action and doctrine Catholic.

Summary 1 Goals 2 History 3 Uploaded 4 Bibliography 5 Source 6 See also 6.1 Article Related 6.2 External link

Goals

The Catholic Encyclopedia as serving the Roman Catholic Church , its contents would be in line with official Catholic doctrine in effect during the pontificate of Pius X. It reflects the life and works of Catholic personalities from all walks of life, as well as scientific and artistic intellectuals. While having a lesser scale than other general encyclopedias, it covers an area larger than the previous Catholic encyclopedias, which were only interested in the affairs of the Church.

With regard to the subjects where Catholicism and other Protestant churches and communities have differing views, the encyclopaedia has only the Catholic perspective. Because it is published prior to the Council Vatican II , which induced significant changes in Catholic practices, many items are no longer updated.

History

The editors of the encyclopedia began on 11 January 1905 under the supervision of five editors:

• Herbermann Charles George, professor of Latin and Librarian of the University of New York ;
• Edward A. Pace, professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington ;
• Conde Benoist Pallen, editor;
• Thomas Joseph Shahan, professor of church history at Catholic University of America ;
• John J. Wynne, SJ , editor of the Messenger.

The first meeting of editors of the encyclopedia, all from the United States, took place at the offices of Messenger to New York. He received the ¹November 1908 the Nihil obstat (formal approval) Remy Lafort, Censor official church, and the imprimatur (permission to publish) to John Cardinal Farley, then archbishop of New York. The drafting work was facilitated by the reuse of previous publications authorized. The editors were coordinating their work through regular meetings and exchange of letters. They held 134 formal meetings to measure the extent and progress of the project. His first publication took place on 19 April 1913 and a supplement was published in 1922.

The encyclopedia was later updated under the auspices of the Catholic University of America. A New Catholic Encyclopedia in 17 volumes appeared in 1967 and again in 2002. The New Catholic Encyclopedia is available online in some libraries.

Uploaded

In 1993 , Kevin Knight, a young man of 26 years, inspired by the visit of John Paul II to Denver during World Youth Day , had the idea to publish the Web edition of 1913, which belongs now in the public domain. He created for hosting the website New Advent, and was assisted in creating the computerized version, by American volunteers, Canadian, French and Brazilian. The site was opened in 1995 and completed the computerization in 1997.

Supplement 1922, is also in the public domain, but has not yet been posted.

Bibliography

• The Catholic Encyclopedia. An International Work of Reference, Robert Appleton Company, New York 1913 ( OCLC 19420805 )

Source

• (In) This article is partially or entirely from the article in English entitled " Catholic Encyclopedia "(see the list of authors )

See also

Related article

• List of encyclopedias on the Internet

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