Photo credit: Rev. Msgr. Robert Trisco / The Catholic University of America Fiscal Year 2026 marks the first year in which the library has been able to utilize the generous gift of a devoted friend of the library, Rev. Msgr. Robert Trisco. In December 2020, Msgr. Trisco, Professor Emeritus of Church History, pledged $650,000 in Read More

The Acta Sanctorum is a scholarly series published by the Société des Bollandistes over a course of three centuries. It is one of the most authoritative sources for the study of the saints’ lives and for understanding the societies, cultures, and religious life of early Christian and medieval Europe. The collection offers insight into theology, Read More

Robert Frederick Trisco (1929-2023) was a renowned Professor of Church History at The Catholic University of America (CU) and a longtime editor, especially for book reviews, of The Catholic Historical Review (CHR), the official publication of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), an organization he also served as Secretary and Treasurer. An only child and Read More

We invite you to give us feedback on a database we are looking into purchasing: Index Religiosus The trial for Index Religiosus can be reached here Index Religiosus is an international bibliography covering Religion, Church History, Canon Law, Old and New Testaments, Sacramentology and Liturgy, influential figures, Art History, Music, Architecture, and Hagiography. It contains Read More

Three hundred early eighteenth-century French and Latin titles from the Albani collection, many of them the only exemplars in the United States, are now cataloged and available to researchers in Rare Books and Special Collections (214 Mullen). A sampling of their content may be found at the RBSC blog:   http://ascendonica.blogspot.com/

After some 80 years at CUA, the collection of pamphlets and manuscripts related to the 1713 papal bull Unigenitus is being cataloged in advance of the 300th anniversary of this document, issued by Pope Clement XI to combat the doctrinal errors of Jansenism. More information on this collection,  once part of  Pope Clement’s library,  may Read More