NEW Catechism Search

Posted by Jeffrey Pinyan at 4:14 PM

I've spent the past two weeks developing a new version of my Catechism search engine.  You can see the results of my labors here: http://www.catholiccrossreference.com/tools/

The Compendium, Lectionary, and Document search engines will be similarly updated during the month of July.

2 comments:

  1. † Dominic of Chandler said...

    Looks interesting. I perused it for several minutes. What are the features and benefits?

  2. Jeffrey Pinyan said...

    (Hrm, since the USCCB updated their web site, the automatic today's-readings feature is broken. Must fix that soon!)

    Dominic, I think my Catechism search engine has these things in its favor:

    1. Searchable by word, phrase, Scripture reference, paragraph number, or section.

    2. Easy access to footnotes (under each paragraph, rather than at the bottom of the page) and cross-references (on the side).

    3. A (currently-broken) hook into today's readings, so you can see what the Catechism says about them.

    4. You can see as much or as little of the Catechism at a time -- more than just one paragraph or section, you can see excerpts of any size quickly and easily.

    In the future I'll find hooks into Twitter, Facebook, etc.