Catholic Encyclopedia (1914) #catechesis/encyclopedia
Up: Catechesis
Land here when the user asks: who was someone — a saint, pope, bishop, martyr, theologian,
heretic or monarch (who was Saint Jerome, who was Pelagius, who was Charlemagne); what a word or
term means; about a religious order, a diocese, a country’s Catholic history, a devotion, a feast,
a relic, a piece of church art or architecture; for a definition, a date, a biography, or general
background on almost anything Catholic.
11,662 articles, A–Z, public domain (1914). This is the corpus’s general-purpose reference
layer and usually the right first stop for a who or what question — the Fathers, Summa and
Catechism answer what is taught, this answers what and who it is.
It is also the connective tissue. Every other corpus links into it: the Bible’s own text links
here 77,635 times (in Genesis 1, God, created and heaven are links to these articles), the
Fathers 618,532 times, the Summa 224,522.
[!warning] It is a 1914 text
Scholarship, dates and attributions reflect 1914, and its tone toward other confessions is of its
period. Excellent on classical and patristic material; treat modern history, science and biblical
criticism as dated.
Drill down by first letter: A · B ·
C · … · Z.
