Catholic Studies

The Booth Family Center for Special Collections located on the 5th floor of Lauinger library, has a number of archival collections related to the history of Catholicism in America. ArchivesSpace allows you to search for collections within Booth, and make requests to examine the materials.

A digital hub collecting Catholic Newspapers and archival materials across many institutions.

Multiple translations of the Second Vatican Council’s 16 documents, from the Vatican site

Primary and secondary texts by Dorothy Day, and archives of the Catholic Worker.

1500 - 1700

Full-text collection of 16th- and 17th-century Catholic papal and synodal decrees, catechisms and inquisitorial manuals, biblical commentaries, theological treatises and systems, liturgical writings, saints' lives and devotional works.