Novelty in religious education provided by Catholic encyclopaedia (7)

I believe the answer is:

recency

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'novelty' is the definition.
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'religious education provided by catholic encyclopaedia' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'catholic' could be 'c' (abbreviation as in RC for Roman Catholic) and 'c' is present in the answer.
'religious education' could be 're' (abbreviation) and 're' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

'in' is the link.

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