Catholic Social Teaching

The premier index of articles, reviews, and essays in all fields of religion and theology, and offers significant breadth and depth of subject areas and languages covered.

Coverage Areas:
Bible, archaeology, and antiquities; human culture and society; world religions and religious studies; church history, missions, and ecumenism; pastoral ministry; theology, philosophy, and ethics

Total Number of Records:
More than 3.4 million, including
* 2,500+ journal titles in total, 1,200+ of which are currently being indexed
* 1.2 million+ journal article records
* 287,000+ essay records
* 1.1 million+ review records
* 470,000+ book records

Welcome to the Catholic News Archive! Our site has thousands of newspaper pages, from different cities, over multiple years and the collection is growing! You can search across the entire collection, a specific city or national paper, or even a select period of time with our powerful search, browse, and download capabilities. The Archive is crucial for scholars examining social, economic, or religious history in the United States. This fully searchable text helps anyone see data of interest, and to see it in the context of the newspapers' editorials, pictures, and advertisements.

Articles available from October 1831 - present

The Catholic Research Resources Portal, or "Catholic Portal," provides global, freely available access to rare, unique, and/or uncommon materials in libraries, seminaries, special collections, and archives.

Indexing and some full-text access to rare materials in libraries, seminaries, special collections, and archives. You can limit it to full text after searching. The database "enables easy, the effective and global discovery of Catholic research resources". Made available by the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA).

JSTOR journals, books, images, and primary sources are integrated into a single, robust platform that uses the latest digital technologies and best practices. JSTOR provides access to over 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.

Full runs of journals from more than 2,800 top scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. More than 100,000 ebooks from 250+ renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR. This source also includes open-access articles!

Project MUSE offers open access (OA) books, journals, and digital humanities work from several distinguished university presses, scholarly societies, and independent not-for-profit academic publishers. Through our open-access hosting programs, we are able to offer publishers a platform for their OA content which ensures visibility, discoverability, and wide dissemination. These materials are freely available to libraries and users around the world.

For more than 25 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies. Currently, Project MUSE has over 800 journals from 125 publishers and offers over 80,000 books from more than 140 presses. MUSE also offers over 4000 open access books on the platform.

NOTE: Limit to "only content I have access to" to find free full-text.