KATHOLIEK, DE. - The first Catholic scholarly journal founded in Holland after the violent Protestant persecution which, for two centuries, had stifled every expression of Catholic life had ceased, at least legally.
After the preparatory work of the great emancipator of Catholics, the convert Gioachino Giorgio le Sage ten Broek (1775-1847), founder of several apologetic journals, Fr. van Vree, rector of the Seminary of Warmond (diocese of Haarlem), founded De K. in 1842 as a monthly journal of theology, philosophy, and history. Its principal contributor was Cornelio Broere, philosopher, historian, and poet.
De K. exerted a profound influence on the emancipation and scholarly progress of Catholic Holland. It was published under this name for no fewer than 83 years. Shortly after the establishment of the Catholic University of Nimega (1925), De K. became its official organ, under the new name of Studia Catholica, which is still published. Among its contributors are several professors of the theological and philosophical faculties of the University of Nimega. Lodovico Bender