DE KATHOLIEK. - The first Catholic scholarly journal founded in the Netherlands after the violent Protestant persecution, which had legally ceased at least, had for two centuries stifled every expression of Catholic life.
Following preparatory work by 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. The principal collaborator was Cornelio Broere, philosopher, historian, and poet.
De K. exerted a profound influence on the emancipation and scientific progress of Dutch Catholicism. Under this title it appeared for a full 83 years. Shortly after the establishment of the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1925), De K. became its official organ under the new name Studia Catholica, which continues to this day. Among its contributors are several professors from the theological and philosophical faculties of the University of Nijmegen. Lodovico Bender