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About the Product In partnership with the Catholic University of America, Gale presents New Catholic Encyclopedia -- a 15-volume set and its yearly supplements, which focuses on relevant, high-interest areas of Catholic life. The 2011 Supplement covers the areas of art, music and literature. It features over 340 signed, peer-reviewed articles written by specialists and scholars. In addition to the focus on the arts, it includes bios of those beatified and canonized since 2010, as well as entries on other relevant current Catholic issues, events and topics, such as: internet and the church, Pope Benedict XVI, popular culture, sex abuse crisis, television and Catholicism, women artists and Catholic art.