Welcome to Catholic Heritage, the website for the Networking Archives and Libraries in the Catholic Church (NALCC) project. Led by the Archivists’ of the Scottish Catholic Archives, Westminster Diocesan Archives, and the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, NALCC is forging partnerships between diocesan archives, Bishops’ Conferences’, seminaries, and religious orders in order to provide a single access point to an online collection of archives databases of value to students and researchers across the world.

At present, Catholic Heritage enables users to search in the region of 250,000 individual catalogue entries from 9 different Catholic institutions, representing 4 different European countries. However, NALCC reflects an ambition to bring together and provide access to collections which reflect the rich history of the Catholic Church in a British context and serves to celebrate Catholicism’s contribution to British history as a whole. Therefore, an important future role of the NALCC project team will be to encourage the participation of other Catholic organisations and to ultimately bring these rich resources together in digital form and make them accessible to the academic and religious community at large.