Catalogs several thousand encyclicals, letters and other decrees of the popes, with a key to published sources of texts. Indexes to current publications allow subject and author access to scholarly journals, where the most recent findings and arguments about a given topic appear. Also the location for book reviews. The most complete index for scholarly publications on religion. Also available on CD-ROM in the Reference Dept.
Texts reprint full or partial translations of important original documents of all kinds.
Many others can be found in the Stacks. Includes introductions and bibliographies. Select library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church. Parallel Latin and English texts. English translations of 280 texts.