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The '''''New Catholic Encyclopedia''''' ('''NCE''') is a multi-volume [[reference]] work on [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] history and belief edited by the faculty of the [[Catholic University of America]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] The NCE was originally published in 1967 by [[McGraw Hill Education|McGraw-Hill]] in [[New York City]]. A second edition, which discarded articles more reminiscent of a general encyclopedia,<ref name="Rubenstein" /> was published in 2002.<ref name="OFMC">{{Cite web|date=5 November 2002|title=Publication of the 2002 New Catholic Encyclopedia|url=http://www.ofmconv.org/English/NewsArchives/2002CathEncyc.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030627201941/http://www.ofmconv.org/English/NewsArchives/2002CathEncyc.htm|archive-date=27 June 2003|access-date=25 January 2013|publisher=The Order of Friars Minor Conventual}}</ref>

Like the original ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'', published from 1907–1914, the NCE was meant to be a standard library reference work for clergy, laity, students, teachers, librarians, journalists, and general readers interested in the history, doctrine, practices, and people of the Roman Catholic faith. The 1967 edition added more general and expanded articles on science, education, and the liberal arts plus ecumenism, reflecting the [[Second Vatican Council]] of 1962-65.<ref name="Rubenstein">{{Cite journal |author=Rubinstein, Ernest H. |year=2004 |title=The 'new' New Catholic Encyclopedia: something lost--3.5 million words--something gained? |url=https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/new-new-catholic-encyclopedia |journal=Commonweal |volume=131 |issue=18 |pages=22 ff}}</ref> The 2002 edition was listed as one of the academic periodical ''[[Library Journal]]''{{'}}s recommended "Best Reference Sources" for 2003.<ref>{{Cite journal|author1=Coutts, Brian E.  |author2=McConnell, Tamara |name-list-style=amp |year=2004|title=Best Reference 2003|journal=Library Journal|url=http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/871849-403/best_reference_2003.html.csp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130125220808/http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/ljinprintcurrentissue/871849-403/best_reference_2003.html.csp|archive-date=25 January 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

==First edition==
The original ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' was published between 1907 and 1914, first by the Robert Appleton Company,  and then by its successor The Encyclopedic Press Inc. Supplements to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia'' were published in 1922 and in 1958. 

In 1960, the [[Catholic University of America]], in collaboration with McGraw-Hill, began work on an entirely new encyclopedia. In 1967, the ''New Catholic Encyclopedia'' (''NCE1'') was published in 15 volumes. Alphabetic supplemental volumes appeared in 1974, 1979, 1989, and 1996.

==Jubilee Volume==
In 2001, in collaboration with the Catholic University of America, [[Gale (publisher)|Gale Publishing]], a subsidiary  of the [[Thomson Corporation]], published a ''Jubilee Volume: The Wojtyła Years'', which focuses on the [[pontificate]] of Pope [[Pope John Paul II|John Paul II]] and included thematic essays that covered the person, his work, and pontificate in two parts:

# From the Poland of Karol Wojtyła to the World of John Paul II — Thematic Essays
# John Paul II and His Pontificate

The second part offers various sections (e.g. "Magisterial Documents", "People and Places, Institutions and Events"), the content for each of which is arranged with entries in alphabetical order.

At times listed as volume 20 of ''NCE1,''<ref>{{Cite web |title=New Catholic Encyclopedia: Jubilee Volume (The Wojtyla Years) (Vol 20) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dERAQAAIAAJ |access-date= |website= |language=en}}</ref> it was envisioned by the editor "not so much as a supplement to the original edition as a ''[[Propædia|propaedia]],'' a preamble, to the revised edition of the ''NCE''",<ref>{{Cite book |title=New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jubilee Volume The Wojtyla Years |last=Marthaler |first=Berard L. |date=2001 |publisher=Thomson/Gale |others=Catholic University of America. |isbn=9780787647872 |location=Detroit |page=xiii |oclc=50723247 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/newcatholicencyc00gale }}</ref> which was to follow a year later. Some of the material of the ''Jubilee Volume'' appeared in later supplements, notably the 2010 supplement to ''NCE2''.

==Second edition==
The second edition of the ''New Catholic Encyclopedia'' (''NCE2'') incorporated material from the original first edition of 1967 and its supplements of the [[1970s]], [[1980s]] and [[1990s]], along with further additions and revisions. It was published in 2002 by Gale Publishing in 14 volumes, with a fifteenth volume consisting of a cumulative index to the entire encyclopedia.<ref name="OFMC" /> Supplemental volumes later appeared for this second edition.

In addition to the hundreds of new signed articles on a wide variety of topics, the 2002 edition also featured biographies of contemporary religious figures; thousands of photographs, maps and illustrations; and some updated bibliographical citations. The photographs remained printed in black and white.<ref name="Sutter">{{Cite journal|author=Sutter, Herman|year=2003|title=New Catholic Encyclopedia|journal=School Library Journal|volume=49|issue=2|page=91}}</ref>

The original volumes of ''NCE2'' are:

* Volume 1: A–Azt.<ref name="V16">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 1: A–Azt |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-1.pdf |volume=1 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 2: Baa–Cam.<ref name="V22">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 2: Baa-Cam |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-2.pdf |volume=2 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 3: Cam–Col.<ref name="V32">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 3: Cam–Col |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-3.pdf |volume=3 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 4: Com–Dyn.<ref name="V42">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 4: Com–Dyn |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-4.pdf |volume=4 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 5: Ead–Fre.<ref name="V52">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 5: Ead–Fre |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-5.pdf |volume=5 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 6: Fri–Hoh.<ref name="V62">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 6: Fri–Hoh |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-6.pdf |volume=6 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 7: Hol–Jub.<ref name="V72">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 7: Hol–Jub |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-7.pdf |volume=7 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 8: Job–Lyo.<ref name="V82">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 8: Job–Lyo |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-8.pdf |volume=8 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 9: Mab–Mor.<ref name="V92">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 9: Mab–Mor |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-9.pdf |volume=9 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 10: Mos–Pat.<ref name="V102">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 10: Mos–Pat |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-10.pdf |volume=10 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 11: Pau–Red.<ref name="V112">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 11: Pau–Red |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-11.pdf |volume=11 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 12: Ref–Sep.<ref name="V122">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 12: Ref–Sep |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-12.pdf |volume=12 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 13: Seq–The.<ref name="V132">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 13: Seq–The |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-13.pdf |volume=13 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 14: Thi–Zwi.<ref name="V142">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 14: Thi–Zwi |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-14.pdf |volume=14 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>
* Volume 15: Index.<ref name="V152">{{citation |author= |title=Volume 15: Index |url=https://cvdvn.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/new-catholic-encyclopedia-vol-15.pdf |volume=15 |page= |pages= |year=2003 |edition=2nd |publisher=Gale |encyclopedia=The New Catholic Encyclopedia}}.</ref>

===Reviews===
''NCE2'' received mixed reviews.  While applauding the effort,<ref name="Sutter" /> reviewers found the updating to be spotty, for example, many bibliographies were not updated, new notable buildings were omitted, and important new research results were not included.<ref name="Rubenstein" /> In addition, a large number of articles and 3.5 million words that appeared in ''NCE1'' were omitted entirely.<ref name="Malcheski">{{Cite web|author=Malcheski, Jan|date=June 2003|title=ATLANTIS Reference Reviews: New Catholic Encyclopedia|publisher=American Theological Library Association|url=http://www.atla.com/member/librarians_tools/reference_reviews/review0603.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030831132921/http://www.atla.com/member/librarians_tools/reference_reviews/review0603.html|archive-date=31 August 2003|url-status=dead}}</ref> An editor, Berard Marthaler, said that the reduction in size "had to be done with a meat cleaver, not a scalpel."<ref name="OFMC" /> Controversial subjects were, to some extent, avoided in the second edition; for example, as Jan Malcheski and Herman Sutter both noted in their reviews, an article from the 1996 ''NCE1'' supplement on pedophilia was omitted in the ''NCE2''.<ref name="Rubenstein" /><ref name="Sutter" /><ref name="Malcheski" /> The tone of the multi-author work was also variable, from older, scholarly articles such as the one on "Aristotle", to those pitched for a more general audience such as the article on "Joy".<ref name="Sutter" />

===Supplementation for the second edition===
In the summer of 2006, the publisher Gale and the [[Catholic University of America Press]] developed a plan for ongoing updating of the second edition in print and electronic (eBook) formats.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cengage.com/search/showresults.do?N=197%204294921852&Nr=197&Ntk=APG&Ntt=New%20Catholic%20Encyclopedia&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial|title=Library Research Search = New Catholic Encyclopedia - eBook - Gale}}</ref> The plan indicated a special focus on the United States.{{Citation needed|reason=why|date= January 2013}} The planned new entries included biographies as well as articles on movements, organizations, documents and ideas that are either Catholic or of special interest to Catholics.

The first of these ''New Catholic Encyclopedia'' supplemental volumes, Supplement 2009, was published electronically in June 2009 and in print in November 2009. It focused on the theme of "Science and the Church", and contained new articles like ones on [[Charles Darwin]] and [[Sigmund Freud]].<ref name="Trisco">{{Cite journal |last=Trsico |first=Robert |year=2010 |title=New Catholic Encyclopedia |url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE%7CA240618546&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=a90c1ee9 |journal=The Catholic Historical Review |volume=96 |issue=4 |page=873}}  A review of the 2009 supplement.</ref>  It also updated the articles on the Catholic Church in each of the fifty states, as well as the 33 [[List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)|US archdiocese]] articles. It contains a much updated bibliography. Most of the editors now belong to Catholic institutions other than the Catholic University of America.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Elyse|date=December 2009|title=New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2009|url=https://theolib.atla.com/theolib/article/download/115/350/|journal=Theological Librarianship|publisher=American Theological Library Association|volume=2,2|issue=2|pages=109–111|doi=10.31046/tl.v2i2.115|doi-access=free}}</ref>

Supplement 2010, published in June 2010, focused on the theme "Church in Modern History", with particular emphasis on World War II and thereafter. It included about 200 entries on people [[Beatification|beatified]] or [[Canonization|canonized]] since 2003. Most of the beatified were new entries, while most of the saints were revisions of previous articles, although overall the 2010 supplement had more new entries than revised (updated) ones.

Supplement 2011 focused on the theme "Church and the Arts and Music"; among its new articles were one on the [[Catholic Church sexual abuse cases|sex abuse crisis]] and one on [[Pope Benedict XVI]], as well as new entries on St. [[Mary MacKillop|Mary Helen McKillop]] (1842–1907) and St. [[André Bessette|Andre Bessette]] (1845–1937).<ref>{{Cite journal |date=October 2011| title = New Catholic encyclopedia supplement 2011; 2v. | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130128173307/http://booknews.com/ref_issues/ref_oct2011/cenglear1.html | archive-date = January 28, 2013 | journal=Reference & Research Book News |url=http://booknews.com/ref_issues/ref_oct2011/cenglear1.html}}</ref>

"Ethics and Philosophy" was the theme for the 2012–2013 supplement.

==See also==
{{Portal|Catholicism|Books}}
* ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' (1914)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 1st edition;'' 19 volumes (incl. four supplements), William McDonald (ed.) (McGraw-Hill Book Company in association with The Catholic University of America, 1967–1996).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, Jubilee Volume: The Wojtyła Years'', Berard L. Marthaler (ed.) (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2001).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition;'' 15 volumes (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2003).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition,'' Supplement 2009 (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2009).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition,'' Supplement 2010 (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2010).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition,'' Supplement 2011, Robert L. Fastiggi (ed.) (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2011).
*''New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd edition,'' Supplement 2012–2013; 4 volumes, Robert L. Fastiggi (ed.) (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning in association with The Catholic University of America, 2013).

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