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An index covering all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, including index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith written by Catholic authors and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

An extensive resource in all fields of religion, this database covers religion, theology, biblical studies, world religions, church history and more.

EDS provides users with an easy yet powerful means of accessing all of our information resources through a single search. By indexing all of our internal and external resources – information from as many as 70,000 publishers and other providers who make available hundreds of millions of records from hundreds of thousands of journals, magazines, books, and other content sources – EDS creates an exceptionally fast search experience.

Search and view the full text of eBooks.

Research and bibliographic aids for scholars and students of the New Testament and its historical milieu. The database contains abstracts of articles, books, and reviews dating back to 1985.

A database featuring indexing and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multi-author works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

A current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The index contains research published since 1940.

The collection provides coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy. It offers more than 300 full-text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles.

A collection of over 1170 Spanish language theology and religion eBooks. In addition to the current content, the collection is updated regularly with new content as it is acquired by the vendor. Browse current titles alphabetized by title or by author.

One of the best places for learning a new language, Duolingo is clear and easy to grasp, there are tons of languages to pick from, and you’re incentivized to learn through fake currency-credits. This free language learning site has several functions. There’s a Learn section for starting with the basics, Stories to challenge your reading and listening skills, Discuss for interacting with the user forum, Events to find language learners near you, Dictionary for on-demand translations and sample sentences, and Shop to buy things with the credits you earn throughout the site. At any time, you can switch to a different language to start that course without losing your place in your current one.

JSTOR is a digital library containing digitized back issues of academic journals. It provides full-text searches of nearly 2,000 journals.

A comprehensive source for scholarly articles on Catholic teaching, prominent people, and related subjects, this database includes the most current edition with the John Paul II Jubilee volume as well as more recent supplements on “Science and the Church,” “Modern History and the Church,” “Literature and the Arts,” and the latest release in 2012-2013, a four-volume supplement “Ethics and Philosophy.”  (Get the username and password you need to access these databases from the library via email at library@cathedralseminary.org)

An electronic resource providing access to six essential Oxford editions of the Bible (Catholic Study Bible and Lectionary included), along with commentary and annotations from other study Bibles, combined with reference material and primary texts.

Religion-based annotated subject lists designed to identify reliable sources of information for your research (Citations only/Not full text). The in-depth search capability is available for the “biblical studies” subject area. For all other subject areas, an Introduction, General Overview and a list of textbooks are provided.

Originally published in print as Oxford Handbooks, this resource contains in-depth articles by scholars that provide succinct snapshots on a topic, as well as offering original arguments. The “Religion” link provides full text. Other subject areas (Political Science, Philosophy, and Business & Management) provide abstracts only.

“Religion and Theology”: access to full text of Oxford books on Religion and Theology, providing search capabilities, keywords and abstracts at the book and chapter level, plus reference linking from bibliographies and footnotes.

The Past Masters series contains hundreds of scholarly texts by major western philosophers. Some databases are solely devoted to the works of particular philosophers while others contain important texts in major philosophical movements. A search engine provides the ability to search thousands of pages of text for any word or combination of words.

ProQuest offers the largest high-quality, aggregated ebook subscription in religion and philosophy with more than 16,000 carefully curated ebooks with anytime, anywhere access. Spanning topics such as philosophy, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, criticism and interpretation of The Bible, and religious history, beliefs, ethics, culture, politics, and more, the subscription provides a solid base of religious content that meets the research needs of students and scholars alike.

Published since 1909, the Acta Apostolicae Sedis provides the official texts (usually in Latin) of most of the documents of the Holy See issued each year (encyclicals, apostolic letters, decrees, etc.) plus the major papal allocutions. This website provides in PDF format every volume from 1909 to the most recent year to be posted (about two years before the current year).

An international website of Catholic news stories plus other news items reported from a Catholic perspective.

An online edition of the widely-used nineteenth-century “Library of the Fathers,” English Protestant translations of a wide range of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Patristic texts originally published in England, subsequently reissued in a more compact late nineteenth-century American edition, and now typeset anew in this CCEL online version.

A broad archive of data on various religions, bringing together survey results and other statistics.

A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources for the study and practice of religion. The site includes syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, websites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, and software.

A site dedicated to all things Augustine, maintained by Georgetown University. Included are the complete texts of his writings (in various translations), commentaries, research materials and essays on Augustine, artwork, and the internet Augustine Seminar.

This website provides an online concordance of a wide range of Bible translations, and allows the same Scripture passage to be viewed in various translations side-by-side. Its versatility, however, is limited by its omission of the “deuterocanonical” books of the Old Testament (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees).

Full-text multilingual Catholic Bible, commentaries, canon law, liturgical resources and magisterial sources.

This webpage provides a series of extensive bibliographies covering a wide variety of topics in the fields of biblical, historical, sacramental and systematic theology.

Created by Dr. Edward Peters, an American lay canon lawyer, as a resource center on Catholic Canon Law.

Social science research “at the service of the Catholic Church” from Georgetown University. Some free reports are published online.

This online version of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, originally promulgated in 1994, provides the latest 2016 edition of the text, which incorporates texts from the 2011 ICEL translation of the Roman Missal.

This website provides a “Catholic portal” bringing together resources from a wide consortium of Catholic institutions across America with a view to facilitating research. Particularly helpful is the site’s list of accessible online digital collections of archival material, books, periodicals, photos and other items provided by the member institutions. The website is developing a Catholic newspapers digital archive. While most of the newspapers in the archive have thus far uploaded only recent issues, the Pittsburgh Catholic provides searchable access to every issue from 1844 to 2001, constituting a one-of-a-kind resource for the study of the history of the Catholic Church in America.

This simple website provides a very useful anthology of Patristic quotations on a variety of key Catholic doctrinal topics, from the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist to papal primacy.

The full text of the 1983 edition via IntraText.

Promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005, the Compendium presents, in an abridged, more concise form, the teachings of the Catechism of the Catholic Church promulgated by Pope Saint John Paul II. This website is an online version of the text as posted by the Vatican on its website.

Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 2004.

Issued by Pope John Paul II, 1988.

The index page for all the documents of the Second Vatican Council.

This website seeks to provide a wide array of resources for the thoughtful and informed discussion of difficult moral issues.

This website simply provides a means for viewing the corresponding passages from the four Gospels side-by-side.

A database that provides free access to documents, articles, essays etc. in theology and ecumenism.

This Evangelical Protestant website, which provides various items for the study of the Greek text of the New Testament, serves as a portal to online digitized images of several important manuscripts of the New Testament in Greek (under the “Links” section of “Resources”) as well as a number of historically significant printed editions of the Greek New Testament, beginning with that of Erasmus from 1516 (under “Resources” click “Historic Editions of the Greek New Testament Online”).

The Vatican’s official website, where the entire text of many Church documents, papal homilies and links to the Vatican offices can be found.

The Vatican’s webpage for the official texts of the homilies of Pope Benedict XVI – each homily is available in several different languages (English, Spanish, etc.).

The Vatican’s webpage for the official texts of the homilies of Pope John Paul II. Each homily is available in several different languages (English, Spanish, etc.).

The Vatican’s webpage for the official texts of the homilies of Pope Francis. Each homily is available in several different languages (some are not available in English). For each homily there is also a gallery of photos.

An encyclopedic tool for information on Mary, hosted by the University of Dayton.

This websites contains sacred texts from several different religions.

A free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. This project provides citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links to books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, and other works related to the study of Jesuit history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogy.

Biographies, web resources, articles, and writings of Bl. John Duns Scotus fully linked and freely available.

A comprehensive online collection of the writings of Blessed John Henry Newman together with online biographical resources concerning him. The only writings not included are the early Protestant sermons of Newman (1824-1843) and the correspondence from his years as a Catholic (1845-1890), the latter filling volumes 11 to 31 of Charles Stephen Dessain and Thomas Gornall’s monumental Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman. The website does mention plans to add these items in the future.

A large site which aggregates Catholic news, Catholic links, a library of Church documents, writings of the Church Fathers, and a digital version of the 1915 Catholic Encyclopedia, as well as the text of the Summa Theologica.

This webpage provides a wide range of Scripture studies links, including some with specifically Catholic resources.

An online edition of the widely used nineteenth century “Library of the Fathers,” English Protestant translations of a wide range of Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Patristic texts originally published in England, subsequently reissued in a more compact late nineteenth century American edition, and now typeset anew in this CCEL online version.

An independently-run, well-maintained website providing texts or links for virtually every papal pronouncement (encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, etc.) from the pontificate of Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) to that of Pope Francis, listed in both alphabetical and chronological order for each pontificate, as well as key papal pronouncements from the period before 1740 back to the thirteenth century, and also the complete texts of the canons or officially promulgated texts of every oecumenical  council from the First Council of Nicaea in 325 to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965).  

This webpage provides links to a wide variety of online resources directly or indirectly related to the study of Scriptural texts.  Links for patristic texts and early medieval authors as well as for the study of antiquity (the Greco-Roman world, etc.) are included.

An association of scholars working with other interested persons for the advancement of theology and philosophy within the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church. It addresses contemporary questions of theology and philosophy, beginning from a Thomist point of view, and it is promoting with special attention a neo-Patristic approach to the interpretation of Sacred Scripture.

(Benziger Bros. edition, 1947): Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province.

This is one of the most ambitious portals of online freely downloadable Latin texts available, with virtually all the volumes of Migne’s Patrologia Latina, Mansi’s Sacrorum Conciliorum, Cherubini’s Magnum Bullarium Romanum, the Monumenta Germaniae Historia, the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, and the Annales of Baronius, plus a large variety of other items, including some Eastern liturgy resources and Migne’s Patrologia Graeca. It includes a web page listing all the authors in Migne’s Patrologia Latina in alphabetical order, with links to each author’s text in the Migne series.  

This search engine for the Second Vatican Council (October 11th, 1962 – December 8th, 1965) allows you to search the full text of all documents (in English). The Community of St. Joseph in Austria maintains the search engine.

Free, scholarly, and peer-reviewed philosophy encyclopedia hosted by Stanford University.

A collection of material ancient and modern about the ancient Christian Latin writer Tertullian and his writings.

Includes the works of St. Thomas Aquinas — in English — the following works: Theological Syntheses • Commentaries on Scripture • Commentaries on Aristotle • Commentaries on Neoplatonic Texts • Disputations • Polemical Writings • Other Authentic Works • Works of Uncertain Authenticity • Spurious Works • Abbreviations Explained for Non-Latinists • Latin Texts & Aids.

Official site of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, with the full-text of many official documents, the text of the New American Bible, etc.

Practical resources for preaching from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

This webpage provides, book by book, the complete text of the 2011 New American Bible Revised Edition. The day’s Scripture readings for Mass are also provided.

DigiVatLib aims to digitize the entire library’s collection of manuscripts: 80,000 codices (excluding the archival units) mostly from the Middle Ages and the Humanistic period. The library is also digitizing its collection of nearly 9000 early printed books (incunabula – pre-1500). The project, started in 2010, focuses on two purposes: the long-term preservation of high resolution images and the online digital library.