New Advent is an online

ONLINE

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 version of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Catholic Encyclopedia

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In 1993, Kevin Knight, then a 26-year-old resident of Denver, Colorado, was inspired, during the visit of Pope John Paul II to that city for World Youth Day, to launch a project to publish the 1913 edition of the encyclopedia on the Internet. Knight founded the website New Advent to house the undertaking. Volunteers from the United States, Canada, France and Brazil helped in the transcription of the original material. The site went online in 1995 and transcription efforts stopped in 1997.

It contains document

Document

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s and link

Hyperlink

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s to Catholic doctrine

Doctrine

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s and apologetics

Apologetics

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. It also includes a list of the topmost Catholic websites that receive the most web traffic

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 and a blog

Blog

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 that focuses on major issue

Issue

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s in the Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

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