Christian Studies - Popes - Directory of Online Resources

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The Holy See
The official Vatican site

All Catholic Church Ecumenical Councils - All the Decrees
Digitized collection of all Councils from Council of Nicaea to Second Vatican Council.

The Catholic Encyclopedia
 The 1913 ed.

Catholic Encyclopedia - The List of Popes
Hyperlinked biographies of all 266 popes.

Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

  • Essays, Research Papers, and Reviews
    Sections include: Activist Groups ; Book Reviews ; The Church and the Holocaust ; Church and State ; The Crusades and the Inquisition ; Education ; The Media ; The Papacy ; "The Passion of the Christ" The Sex Abuse Scandal ; Miscellaneous.

Christus Rex Et Redemptor Mundi
A packed one page site containing a nice selection of Vatican art work

History and Art in the Coats of Arms of the Popes
A nice site for Christian art.

PBS - Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
An Online Companion to the Weekly Television News Program

Vatican Museums
"I hope that this new site may be a useful instrument of knowledge and give access to the complex reality of our five hundred-year- old art collections which are visited by more than three million people a year."

  • Vatican Museums Online
    Sections include: Gregorian Egyptian Museum ; Gregorian Etruscan Museum ; Sistine Chapel ; Raphael's Room ; Pinacoteca ; Ethnological Missionary Museum.
    Online highlights include works by Botticelli ; Michelangelo ; Raphael ; Leonardo Da Vinci.