Chinese Christian Texts Database

The CCT-Database includes primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840).

Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project

The goal of the project is to uncover the history of the acquisition and use of Loyola’s original library books.  It grew out of an initiative to digitally reconstruct the earliest surviving library catalogue of St Ignatius College (founded 1870), the forerunner to Loyola University Chicago.  

Catholica Collection, Villanova University

The Catholica Collection makes available digital content of Catholic materials including books, journals, papers, and manuscripts dealing with the Roman Catholic Church in general, and in particular works created or published in the Americas. This includes a number of collections featuring periodicals, publications, references, personal papers, parish and diocese records, photographs, etc.

African-American Catholics of the United States

African American Catholics of the United States contains over 200 images of African American clergy, religious, and laity, plus others in ministry to them, in parishes and schools, religious communities, and lay organizations since 1900. Archives staff selected the images from the records of the Black and Indian Mission Collection, the Catholic Negro-American Mission Board, and … Read more

Database of Religious History

The DRH is a massive, standardized, searchable encyclopedia of the current best scholarly opinion on historical religious traditions and the historical record more generally.

The Catholic Research Resources Portal

Search providing freely available access to rare, unique and/or uncommon materials related to Catholicism in libraries, seminaries, special collections, and archives from around the world.