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Found in 155 Collections and/or Records:

Ella B. Edes Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: EDS
Scope and Content Manuscript book (10" x 12.5" x 1.75", bound in red leather with gold stamping) containing samples of writing in many languages, presented to Ella B. Edes; with photographs and lithographs of prelates, Roman scenes, and artworks; a musical composition in five parts for four voices, "Tota Pulchra Es Maria" by D. Lareto Sacovacci; and autographs of prelates with good wishes and blessings. Languages represented in the book include (as identified by the compiler of the book): English, Hebrew,...
Dates: ca. 1900

Ernest Audran Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: AUD
Scope and Content

Chiefly correspondence, but also clippings, notes, sermons, circulars, and photographs. Correspondents include James McMaster and Bishops Francis Chatard, Celestine de la Hailandière, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Napoléon Joseph Perché, and James Wood.

Dates: 1840-1892.

Eugene C. Kennedy Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: KNN
Scope and Content This collection consists of materials related to the life and career of Eugene Kennedy, including correspondence, subject files, notes, speeches, writings in various stages of development, published books and articles, photographs, audio and video recordings, and items of ephemera or realia. Topics of note include counseling, psychology, the Association of Chicago Priests, Catholicism and the Catholic priesthood in the second half of the 20th century, American bishops, and Chicago politics...
Dates: 1905-2019; Majority of material found within 1960 - 2010

Eugene F. Gorski Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: EFG
Scope and Content

Papers and research material consisting of books, academic notes, art, pictures and portraits, having to do with Catholicism and world religions, especially Hindus and India.

Dates: 1960s-1990s.

Felix Klein Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: FKL
Scope and Content

Correspondence with James Cardinal Gibbons, bishops John Ireland, John J. Keane, Denis O'Connell, and John Lancaster Spalding, and others, much of it concerning Americanism; also notes, clippings, pamphlets, drafts, and photographs.

Dates: 1889-1925 bulk 1897-1904.

Ferdinand Dominic Bach Correspondence

 Fonds
Identifier: BCH
Scope and Content

Correspondence concerning the foundation of the Fathers of Mercy in the United States. Includes 34 transcribed and xeroxed letters written between Bach and Fathers Jean Baptiste Rauzan, SPM, and Jacques Le Vassuer, SPM, both of whom were at the Fathers of Mercy House in Paris. Also includes a xerox of a 1932 letter to Thomas McAvoy, CSC, concerning Bach.

In French.

Dates: 1839-1842.

Francis Norbert Blanchet Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BLN
Scope and Content Letters and papers from Blanchet's trips to France (1846) and South America (1856-1857); correspondence with Major Edward Mallet (1881-1882), with a few letters exchanged between Mallet and Bishop Augustin Magloire Alexander Blanchet (1883); letters, pamphlets and clippings involving Archbishops F.N. Blanchet, Charles J. Seghers, William H. Gross, and Alexander Christie; and a few papers and clippings involving the Diocese of Vancouver Island, suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Oregon City....
Dates: 1846-1902 (bulk 1846-1882).

Francis P. Clark Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: FCL
Scope and Content A few original manuscripts, but chiefly photocopies, transcriptions, and translations of correspondence and documents concerning the history of the Catholic Church in Kentucky; correspondents include missionary priest Stephen T. Badin and bishops John Baptist David, Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, Peter Joseph Lavialle, and William George McCloskey. Portraits of Catholic clergy and religious along with photographs and photomechanical prints of Catholic churches,...
Dates: 1773-1979.

Frederick G. Hochwalt Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: HOC
Scope and Content Photocopies of Hochwalt's correspondence concerning Sister Formation Conferences (1950-1964), federal aid to education (1944-1964), UNESCO (1944-1965), and the proper role of Catholic educators in the National Education Association (1947-1965); a bibliography of articles written by Hochwalt; copies of articles and speeches written by Hochwalt including a transcript of a debate between Hochwalt and Oswald CJ Hoffmann on federal aid to education, 1961; press releases of the NCWC, 1940s-1950s;...
Dates: 1944-1966.

General Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: GEN
Scope and Content Pamphlets, periodicals, and printed ephemera collected by the University of Notre Dame Archives; concerning the history of Catholicism in the United States, Catholic tradition, doctrine, clergy, religious orders, celibacy, Canon Law, Catholic Action, the Bible, the social teaching of the popes, labor unions, scholasticism, immigration; the Second Vatican Council, birth control, saints, the Irish, Catholic missions and missionaries, Catholic education, Fascism, communism, socialism, racism,...
Dates: 1775-[ongoing]

Geno C. Baroni Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BRN
Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, clippings, agenda, reports, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, plans, bills, questionnaires, statistics, training courses, and background papers; concerning catechetics, teaching, work with youth, race relations, black power, civil rights, fair housing, integration, poverty, birth control, minimum wage, credit unions, co-op housing, welfare, crime, Catholic Action, voter registration, urban rehabilitation, and ethnic populations of cities all over the...
Dates: 1962-1984.

George Bornemann Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: BNM
Scope and Content

Correspondence, notes, church documents, and printed material; concerning Bornemann's work as a leader of the German American Catholic Congresses and his interest in organizations of German American Catholics such as the Staatsverband Societies of Pennsylvania and Ohio, the Catholic Central Verein, and the Amerikanish Deutschen Priester Vereins. Correspondents include J.N. Enzlberger, William Faerber, Joseph Schroeder, and bishops Leo Haid, OSB, and P.J. Hurth, CSC.

Dates: 1889-1925.

Germano Straniero Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: STR
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1886-1896; canonical faculties and official certificates given to Straniero, 1823-1886; Straniero's report on the state of the Catholic Church in America, "Rapporto Sullo Stato della Chiesa Cattolica negli Stati Uniti d'America," 1886; and cards, poems, and letters welcoming Straniero.

Dates: 1823-1896.

Harley L. McDevitt Inquisition Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSH/LAT 0090
Scope and Contents This collection contains documents relating to the Inquisitions of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Peru, and Mexico. Included are manuals and guidelines on proper conduct within the inquisition; accounts of trial procedures, prisoner sentences, and autos de fe; and certificates and books of privileges of the staff of the inquisitions. Also included are public edicts, papal bulls, and royal decrees published by various inquisitions relating to banned works, jurisdiction of the different inquisitions,...
Dates: circa 1500-1859

Home Mission Sisters of America Records

 Fonds
Identifier: ZEF
Scope and Content

Correspondence, mailings, reports, registers, and by-laws relating to the general history and activities of the Glenmary Sisters and the 1967 development in which many of the members of the order were given dispensation to form a lay organization.

Dates: 1936-1967.

Humphrey Joseph Desmond Letters received

 Fonds
Identifier: ZAI
Scope and Content

Letters that Desmond, the editor of the Catholic Citizen, received from prominent members of the Catholic hierarchy and preserved for their autograph value. Originally arranged in a scrapbook together with some printed material concerning the correspondents.

Dates: 1890-1908.

Indians of North America Printed Material

 Fonds
Identifier: POT
Scope and Content Newspaper clippings and pamphlets concerning Potawatomies, Miamis, and other Indians of North America; an "Appeal in Behalf of the Negro and Indian Missions in the United States," signed by the Commission for the Catholic Missions among the Negroes and Indians (James Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishops Patrick J. Ryan, and John J. Kain); scattered issues of the journal Kamloops Wawa (1894-1897); five issues (1896-1898) of Anishinabe Enamiad, a Monthly Journal Devoted to the Interests of the...
Dates: 1881-1939.

International Commission on English in the Liturgy Records

 Fonds
Identifier: ICE
Scope and Content

Copies of ICEL correspondence, memoranda, agenda, meeting material and texts collected by Rev. Jeffrey M. Kemper in support of his doctoral dissertation, Behind the Text: A Study of the Principles and Procedures of Translation, Adaptation, and Composition of Original Texts by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy; also audio cassettes and microcassettes of interviews on ICEL.

Dates: 1963-1992.

James Alphonsus McMaster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MMA
Scope and Content

Correspondence with bishops, priests, prominent Catholics, and relatives, especially his son John; and drafts of a series of articles on prophecies.

Calendared

ms 67-528

Dates: 1844-1886.

James Farnham Edwards Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: EDW
Scope and Content Journals, personal correspondence, business correspondence, and memorabilia including broadsides and advertisements, calling and business cards, invitations, announcements, menus, post cards, programs, religious objects, tickets, and passes; class records including student lists, grade books, student exams and class notes, files on student organizations, and other student records; records of the Lemonnier Library including correspondence, library subscription and use records, publishers'...
Dates: 1859-1914 (bulk 1880-1909)

James J. Zatko Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: ZTK
Scope and Content Manuscripts of books by James J. Zatko, including Descent into darkness : the destruction of the Roman Catholic Church in Russia, 1917-1923 , (Toronto : Baxter Publishing, 1965), his history of treatment of the Catholic Church under communism in Russia (based on his 1958 Notre Dame Ph.D. thesis); Valley of Silence: Catholic Thought in Contemporary Poland (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1967), which he compiled and edited; ...
Dates: 1957-1966

James Luke Meagher Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MGR
Scope and Content

Manuscript, roughly 1000 pages long, of Meagher's book, Christ's Kingdom on Earth; or the Church and Her Divine Constitution, Organization and Framework Explained for the People (New York: Russell Brothers, 1891).

Dates: 1887-1890

James O'Gara Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OGA
Scope and Content Publications of James O'Gara on Catholic social teaching, Catholic education, the Church and democracy, the renewal of the Church after the Second Vatican Council, and the role of the laity, including books, pamphlets, articles, typewritten manuscripts of talks and radio and television scripts; general correspondence and editorial correspondence for Paulist Press; and biographical files, including material from sociology courses, files on the Catholic Worker and Dorothy Day, a few folders...
Dates: 1939-2004.

Joan Hazelden Walker Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: JHW
Scope and Content

Unfinished manuscript of Origins of Western Christian Worship: A Study of the Earliest Christian Liturgy and related material including notes, drafts, correspondence, lectures, xerox copies, offprints, mimeographed material, and a bibliography.

Dates: 1956-1984

John A. O'Brien Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OBR
Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, plays, and articles; correspondence, notes, reprints, clippings, news releases, syndicated columns, artifacts, photographs, tape recordings, and subject files; and Catholic pamphlets and books by O'Brien and others; concerning priestly celibacy, birth control, the Masons, converts, anti- Catholicism, evolution, education, and the Crusade for Souls. Most of Father O'Brien's papers and printed material (over 60 linear feet) came to the archives as part of the...
Dates: 1920-1975

John A. O'Brien Scrapbook

 Fonds
Identifier: JAB
Scope and Content

Scrapbook concerning American Catholicism containing many articles from Boston-area newspapers.

Dates: 1877-1880.

John C. Cappon Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: CAP
Scope and Content

Letters received by Cappon, from his brother and others in Belgium, and letters regarding his parish, personal finances, and diocesan questions such as marriage dispensations from bishop; some correspondence unconnected to Cappon; and sermons, notes, certificates, and church documents. Correspondents include Rev. John De Neve, Bishop Peter Paul Lefevre of Detroit, and Bishop Caspar H. Borgess of Detroit.

Dates: 1830-1970

John Dawson Gilmary Shea Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: JSH
Scope and Content

Correspondence dealing mostly with Shea's writing and his financial difficulties; manuscripts of the first three volumes of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and a manuscript of his American Martyrology: lives of Catholic missionaries killed on the Indian missions in Canada and the United States from the earliest times.

Calendared

Dates: 1857-1892.

John F. Cronin Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: CRO
Scope and Content Pamphlets, reprints of articles, newspaper clippings, bibliographies, and unpublished papers relating to social issues such as labor unions, communism, economics, and civil rights, as well as a wide range of topics in moral theology (1935-1977); notes and syllabi for courses Cronin taught at St. Mary's Seminary (1967-ca.1974); copies of Cronin's unpublished report "The Problem of American Communism in 1945" (1945) completed for the National Catholic Welfare Conference; correspondence and...
Dates: 1935-1977 (bulk 1958-1977)

John Francis O'Hara Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OHA
Scope and Content Correspondence, 1908-1960; sermons, lectures and editorials by O'Hara; clippings about him; notes taken by him; class records, 1917-1931; excerpts from the diary of his sister Elizabeth O'Hara, 1940-1951; correspondence, press releases, and clippings concerning his role as military delegate of the armed forces of the United States, 1940-1945; photographs, pamphlets, and medals. Also microfilm of clippings concerning Theodore Roosevelt's trip to South America with John A. Zahm,...
Dates: 1900s-1960s