The Catholic world.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Hewit, A. F. (Augustine Francis), 1820-1897, editor.

Hecker, Isaac Thomas, 1819-1888, editor.

Paulist Fathers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Periodicals.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 volumes) : illustrations, plates

Monthly

Vol. 1, no. 1 (Apr. 1865)-v. 214, no. 1281 (Dec. 1971).

Continued By:

New Catholic world

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : [Lawrence Kehoe], 1865-1971.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Title from caption.

Editors: 1865-1888, I.T. Hecker; 1889-1897, A.F. Hewit.

The Catholic World: A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science was begun in April of 1865 as a general magazine for Catholics by Father Isaac T. Hecker, founder of the Community of Paulist Fathers and of the Catholic Publication Society. At first, it contained mostly selected articles from English and Italian periodicals with brief departments of science, art and books and few original articles. The contribution of original articles increased so greatly that the magazine soon became completely original and the word Eclectic was dropped from its title.

(cont.) The editorial and literary aspects of the magazine were of high quality. Journalist J. R. G. Hassard was a member of the editorial staff, and Father A. F. Hewit was the most frequent contributor of the many Church dignitaries whose work regularly appeared in its pages. One of the magazine's continuous strengths was its high literary quality. Among the distinguished writers who regularly contributed were Agnes Repplier, Louise Imogen Guiney, Alice Meynell, Katharine Tynan, John Gilmary Shea, Aubrey DeVere, Rose H. Lathrop, Joyce Kilmer, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, Padraic Colum, and Theodore Maynard. Though it has been a popular rather than a theological magazine, Catholic World has dealt with educational, social, literary and artistic matters from a Catholic point of view and has supported Church doctrines. Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Supplements accompany some numbers.

Imprint varies: 1865- , New York, N.Y. : Lawrence Kehoe; 1867-1888, Catholic Publishing Society; 1888- , Catholic World (Since 1901 under the direction of the Paulist Fathers).

OCLC:

191223958

Access Restriction:

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