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Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Parish History Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: PHC
Scope and Content

Anniversary books, pamphlets, dedications, financial statements, invitations, directories, bulletins, and newspaper clippings representing Catholic parishes throughout the United States, with more material for Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana than for other states; a few photographs, mainly from Indiana and Kentucky.

Dates: 1831-1983.

Patrick J. Sullivan Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: PSL
Scope and Content

Manuscripts and notes, on paper and computer disks, presenting the teaching of recent popes and bishops on labor-management issues, including Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, and John Paul II ; commentaries on and reactions to Catholic social teaching on labor-management issues as reported in Catholic periodicals; and notes on prominent Catholic individuals and organizations involved with organized labor.

Dates: 1980s-1990s

Paul C. Bussard Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BUS
Scope and Content Clippings documenting Bussard's development of the Leaflet Missal (1929-1930), his reports from Europe (1947), and his participation in the Holy Year Press Flight (1950); correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, graphs, affadavits, depositions, pleadings, subpoenas, and clippings related to his suit against St. Thomas College and Catholic Digest, initiated in 1969 when the college, to which Bussard had given his stock in the magazine, removed him from his job as publisher; including...
Dates: 1929-1978

Peter A. Baart Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BAA
Scope and Content

Correspondence; records of canon law cases; manuscripts of his canon law books Legal Formulary (1898) and The Roman Court (1895); papers related to his study of Catholic orphanages, Orphans and Orphan Asylums (1885); pamphlets on Catholic problems; and photographs. Correspondents include Arthur Preuss, William H. Sadlier, Bishop Henry J. Richter, and Francesco Cardinal Satolli.

Dates: 1882-1907 .

Philip Hughes Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MPH
Scope and Content

Manuscript of The Last Crisis: the British State and the Catholic Church 1850-1851, an unpublished book by Philip Hughes intended as a sequel to The Catholic Question; Lingard letters transcribed by Philip Hughes, 1803-1827; two pamphlets by Hughes (An Analysis of Barraclough's Papal Provisions and Conversion of the Roman Empire); and a bibliography of his works on index cards.

Dates: 1803-1962.

Philip J. Murnion Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: PJM
Scope and Content Papers of Philip J. Murnion, 1961-2003; consisting of talks, lecture material, board meeting files, lay ministry material, files on Church trends, social ministry, community, small Christian communities, culture ministers, parishes, pastors, Pastoral Life Conferences, social justice, inner city ministry, Catholic schools, Biblical studies, Call to Action, Mexico, military chaplains, Cardinal Bernardin, the Second Vatican Council, civil rights, Brencanda, and other material of interest to the...
Dates: 1961-2003.

Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ Records

 Fonds
Identifier: HJC
Scope and Content The Notre Dame Archives is the repository for the Archives of the American Province of the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. The records of the collection consist first of those records generated or collected and kept by the administrative structures of the Province, including the Ancilla Domini Sisters, Inc., corporate board, the Provincial Chapters and Assemblies and the committess associated with them, the Provincial Leadership and its committees, and the departments and offices of the...
Dates: 1847-[ongoing].

Portraits Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: POR
Scope and Content

Portraits, mostly photographic, of individuals associated with the Catholic Church in America and/or Notre Dame, arranged alphabetically by last name.

Dates: 1854-1978

Priests' Eucharistic League Records

 Fonds
Identifier: EUL
Scope and Content Letters and other material relating to the Eucharistic Convention held at the University of Notre Dame, August 7th and 8th, 1894. Correspondents include Rev. William Corby, C.S.C. (1833-1897), President of the University of Notre Dame. Also other letters from bishops and priests in reply to invitations to the Eucharistic Conventions at the University of Notre Dame (1894, 1897) and the first National Eucharistic Congress in Washington, DC (1895); addressed to Bishop Camillus Maes, president...
Dates: 1894-1897.

Ralph M. McInerny Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MCN
Scope and Content Manuscripts of literary and philosophical essays, articles, lectures, and books; notebooks and diaries (1947-1986), correspondence (1954-1987), and alphabetical files; involving Jacques Maritain, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and other philosophers and writers; concerning contemporary Thomism, analogy, natural law, Humanae Vitae, the Second Vatican Council, and changes in the Catholic Church; with drafts and some...
Dates: 1943-2010

Raymond G. Hunthausen Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: RGH
Scope and Content Eight scrapbooks (chiefly 1986-1987) documenting the crisis in the ecclesiastical career of Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen, compiled by Janice Wasden Price; containing newspaper clippings, press releases, memoranda, correspondence, photocopies, reports, circulars, statements, and pictures; a box of newspapers and ephemera, including many issues of The Progress from the same period; a ninth scrapbook containing "Key Documents in the Hunthausen Affair,...
Dates: 1983-2003

Raymond T. Bosler Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BOS
Scope and Content Sermons, talks, lectures, days of renewal, newspaper columns (The Question Box) 1967-1977, STD dissertation St Thomas and the Secular Society (1947), manuscript of book New Wine Bursting Old Skins: Memories of an Old Priest Longing for a New Church, lithograph, and certificates; photographs including many from his 50th anniversary as a priest, some showing his classmates, and some from 1930s Europe; mortarboard,...
Dates: 1930s-1977

Richard H. Clarke Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: RCL
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1864-1910, including letters from many bishops and correspondence with Eliza Allen Starr, John Gilmary Shea, Charles O'Conor, and James F. Edwards; clippings, 1880s-1910; research notes; manuscripts of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and biographical information on bishops.

Calendared

Dates: 1864-1910.

Richard P. McBrien Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: RPM
Scope and Content Papers of Richard P. McBrien concerning the Catholic Church, especially changes after the Second Vatican Council; consisting of files on his syndicated columns (1966-2012), correspondence (1972-2011), lectures (1965-2011), television and radio interviews and appearances (1971-2005), audio and video recording sessions, articles (1963-2006), articles by others, book contributions, books, encyclopedia articles, book reviews, courses, interviews; also alphabetical files of topics to support his...
Dates: 1963-2012.

Robert W. Hovda Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: HOV
Scope and Content Papers and books representing the life and liturgical interests of Robert W. Hovda; with collected material on Gothic and Chaldean medieval liturgies and translations or adaptations of these liturgies for modern use by English speakers; specifically the Gallican Liturgy of the Beloved Disciple and the Liturgy of the Holy Apostles Addai and Mari. Also financial ledgers, 1986-1992, high school and college yearbooks, a directory of the Diocese of Fargo, children's liturgies dating from the...
Dates: 1938-1992.

Rose Eileen Masterman Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MAS
Scope and Content Minutes, agenda, programs, reports, curricula vitae, essays, lectures, articles, book reviews, notes, lists, newsletters, brochures, circular letters, memoranda, tape recordings, photographs and correspondence; concerning the Society of Catholic College Teachers of Sacred Doctrine, College Theology Society, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Manresa Educational Corporation, Conference of Major Superiors of Women, Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Consortium Perfectae Caritatis, Sister...
Dates: 1946-1981.

Samuel A. Stritch Scrapbook

 Fonds
Identifier: STT
Scope and Content

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings concerning his career; with a resolution passed by the board of directors of the Knights of Columbus at Stritch's death, 1958.

Dates: 1946-1958.

Samuel Mazzuchelli Positio

 Fonds
Identifier: MAZ
Scope and Content Two petitions involving Samuel Mazzuchelli. A positio (i.e., a volume containing documentation assembled to support his cause for canonization as a saint), "Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P., Missionary to the United States: a documentary account of his life, virtues, and reputation for holiness." Also a copy of The Memoirs of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli, O.P. (Chicago: Priory Press, 1967) and a mimeographed index to the book prepared by...
Dates: 1989.

Samuel Miller Sener

 Fonds
Identifier: SEN
Scope and Content Writings generally having to do with Catholics in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and especially St. Mary's Catholic Church there; consisting of issues of Christian Culture containing articles by Sener, 1890-1891; offprints, 1880s-1890s; and a printed engraving of a priest, possibly the Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, pastor of St. Mary's. All of this material has been filed in box 20 the General Collection: ...
Dates: 1880s-1890s

San Miguelito Mission Records

 Fonds
Identifier: SMM
Scope and Content

Correspondence, financial and parish records, subject files, histories of the mission, printed material, and photographs. Principal correspondents include John Cardinal Cody of Chicago, Archbishop Marcos McGrath of Panama, and the priests of the mission and the Archdiocese of Chicago: Leo T. Mahon, Donald Headley, Frederick McTernan, John Enright, and John Greeley.

Dates: 1962-1986.

Sister M. Mildred Letters received

 Fonds
Identifier: ZBF
Scope and Content

Photostats of letters Sister Mildred received from various Catholic diocesan and institutional archives in response to her requests for information about the territorial and administrative histories of the dioceses in the old Northwest before the Civil War.

Dates: 1936-1937.

Sisters of Loretto Records

 Fonds
Identifier: LOR
Scope and Content Correspondence and other documents in the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome; involving the Sisters of Loretto, Father Charles Nerinckx, and Bishops Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, and Francis Patrick Kenrick; letters and typewritten transcripts of letters written by or to Sisters of Loretto, including letters from bishops Simon Bruté, John Timon, CM, George A. Carrell, and Peter Joseph Lavialle; a dissertation entitled "Bishop Joseph Rosati, CM, and the...
Dates: 1806-1960.

Society for the Propagation of the Faith Records

 Fonds
Identifier: PFP
Scope and Content Letters, 1828-1930, from the United States to the central council at Paris (27 reels of microfilm) arranged by diocese; and letters to and minutes of the central council at Lyon, 1822-1900, arranged chronologically (15 reels of microfilm). Correspondents include many members of the American hierarchy, among them Joseph Sadoc Alemany, August M. Blanchet, Francis Norbert Blanchet, Timothy Corbett, Joseph Fréri, Henry Granjon, John Baptist Lamy, Joseph P. Macheboeuf, Augustus M....
Dates: 1822-1930.

Stephen T. Badin Papers

 Fonds — Box UNDA-CC-0004
Identifier: ZCF
Scope and Content Baptismal register of Badin's Mission at Notre Dame (1830-1841); a few letters by Badin including one to Bishop William Quarter of Chicago (1846) and drafts of a letter to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in Paris (1845) with translation; copies of documents of Badin's baptism and ordination; documents that mention him, some dating from the twentieth century; photocopies of Badin's accounts recorded in the ledgers of Lathrop Minor Taylor and of S. Hanna & Company (originals...
Dates: 1768-1943 (bulk 1830-1846).

Texas Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: TEX
Scope and Content

Calendar cards followed by manuscripts of Texas material in the Archives of University of Notre Dame.

Dates: 1831-1893.

Thomas F. O'Meara Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OMR
Scope and Content Papers of Thomas F. O'Meara, O.P., consisting of correspondence, including Dominican correspondence and a letter (19 Feb. 1967) from Martin Heidegger concerning translation of a word in one of his essays, with an English translation of the letter and a cover letter by Father O'Meara; a copy of his dissertation; a bibliography and a complete file of his publications up to 2002, including his studies of St. Thomas Aquinas; some ephemeral material associated with his speeches; a set of...
Dates: 1960-2022

Thomas Timothy McAvoy Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MCA
Scope and Content Correspondence, 1936-1969; writings such as manuscripts of his publications, lectures, research notes, and manuscripts of other scholars' works collected by McAvoy; correspondence and copies of historical documents collected by McAvoy during a research trip to Europe, 1960-1961; and personal records such as tax returns, calendars, notes, address books, obituaries, clippings and letters of condolence concerning McAvoy's death, 1930-1969. The ...
Dates: 1936-1969.

Tim Unsworth Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: UNS
Scope and Content

Papers of Timothy Unsworth, consisting of nine linear feet of manuscript material, chiefly drafts and copies of his writings with related correspondence, but also including his master's thesis and diploma; also five linear inches of high-school yearbooks and seven linear inches of video tapes of his television appearances.

Dates: 1950s-2009.

U.S. Catholic Records

 Fonds
Identifier: USC
Scope and Content Correspondence (approximately one linear foot) of Robert E. Burns (editor of U.S. Catholic, formerly Voice of St. Jude). Burns retired as editor in June of 1984. Editorial files, 1959-1984, including correspondence with contributors, readers, and other editors and publishers of the Catholic press. Very few, if any, of the letters could be considered personal. The correspondence is filed by year, but is not organized within each year. The files do not appear to be complete as there are few...
Dates: 1959-1984.

Vatican II Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSE/MD 3828
Abstract

Includes copies of materials pertaining to the development of the sixteen official texts promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, three schemas discussed but not officially accepted by the Council, assorted materials pertaining to the nineteen conciliar documents discussed, items relevant to the period of the Council that include booklets, directories, notices, schedules, summaries, and other items. Post-conciliar liturgical documents are also included.

Dates: 1948-1986, bulk 1962-1965