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Correspondence and related papers of John Ireland; scrapbooks; and supplementary papers including Denis O'Connell letters. For a more detailed description, see Guide to a Microfilm Edition of The John Ireland Papers by Scott Jessee (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1984).

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, material distributed at meetings, reports, circulars, printed material, photographs, and audio and video recordings; representing Egan's early career in Chicago, his years at Notre Dame, and his life in Chicago after he left Notre Dame; with material on the Association of Chicago Priests, the Cana Conference of Chicago, the Office of Urban Affairs of the Archdiocese of Chicago, his parish work, labor issues, race relations, social justice, and...

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Correspondence, minutes of meetings of the board of directors, publicity material and financial statements, reports of the editor and publisher, and printed material; concerning the early years of the National Catholic Reporter and its controversial coverage of the Vietnam war, civil disobedience, the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control, priestly celibacy, and the hierarchy of the church.

Scope and Content Identified on the cover of each notebook as: "Historical Memoranda collected by Rev. Joseph A. Thie, at one time pastor of St. Paul's Parish, Tell City, Indiana". Thirty-nine notebooks roughly 7" x 8", with alphabetically arranged tabs bearing names of states. The notes tend to provide some scrap of information about a Catholic church, priest, or bishop, with few citations of sources. For example: "Buffalo, Jan 1890. St. Adelbert's Parish. This young parish has serious trouble over change of...

Scope and Content Manuscripts of Joseph C. Carrier's translation from volume four of Ambrose Guillois's Explication Historique, Dogmatique, Morale, Liturgique, et Canonique du Catéchism and lectures drawing on volume one of the same work, probably delivered at the University of Notre Dame circa 1870; copies of reports on educational institutions of the Congregation of Holy Cross and on Catholic education, 1872; lectures on chemistry delivered at Notre Dame in spring of 1873; copies...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1950s-1982; writings such as book reviews, articles, lectures, unpublished manuscripts, and his dissertation, The Catholic Movement of Employers and Managers (1960); subject files on such topics as population, poverty, social justice, the Committee on Society, Development and Peace, the Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace, inter-faith dialogue with Protestants, Jews, Moslems, and Buddhists, and efforts to formulate a North American theology; records of the Interreligious...

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Copies of legalistic, detailed letters that Corcoran, a Philadelphia lawyer, sent to Archbishop John J. Krol and other Pennsylvania bishops, critiquing proposed federal policies toward education and religiously supported educational institutions.

Scope and Content Chiefly correspondence, including letters written by Selinger during his years as a student at the North American College in Rome and as a teacher at St. Francis Seminary in Milwaukee to Rev. Anton Pauk of St. Louis; letters from H.J. Heuser, O.J.S. Hoog, and Bede Maler, OSB, some of them concerning Selinger's views on agnosticism; letters from rectors of the Catholic University of America John J. Keane, D.J. O'Connell, and Thomas J. Conaty; and letters from M. Cardinal Faulhaber, A....

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A collection of architectural drawings and blueprints of church furnishings, created by the Kaletta Statuary Company of St. Louis, Missouri.

Scope and Content Alphabetical subject files documenting his work as a teacher, pastor, and bishop, with correspondence, reports, notes, clippings, articles published in periodicals, retreats, courses, and documentation of his thinking on a wide variety of topics; files documenting his trips within and outside the United States; files of his writings, including homilies, articles, talks, and his doctoral dissertation, "The Church - World Relationship according to the Writings of Yves Congar, OP";...

Scope and Content Records, 1956-[ongoing], of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), including correspondence (1958-1983); meeting material from the national board and executive committee (1962-1979); papers from the group's national assembly (1961-1983); extensive subject files (1957-1984); correspondence and minutes (1964-1979) relating to joint committees of LCWR and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the United States Catholic...

Scope and Content Papers of Linda Walbridge, a Catholic anthropologist, reflecting her research interests in Christian communities in Muslim countries, especially Pakistan, and in Muslim communities in the United States; with material on the life and death of Bishop John Joseph, the first Punjabi Catholic bishop in Pakistan; including computer files of Linda Walbridge, with images from her research in Pakistan, and email messages to her husband John Walbridge; video tapes of Mosque services in the United...

Scope and Content Five reels of letters from the United States to the Ludwig Mission Society and two reels of the society's magazine, Annalen der Glaubensverbreitung, volumes one through twenty-one (1848-1868), in which many of the letters were published. Correspondents include Rev. Franz Xaver Weninger, bishops Frederick Baraga, Egidius Jünger, Joseph Melcher, Ignatius Mrak, Michael O'Connor, Maurice de Saint-Palais, Rupert Seidenbusch, OSB, John Timon, CM, Richard V. Whelan, and others. Most...

Scope and Content This collection consists of the data, findings, and correspondence related to three studies which Neal conducted: the South African Catholic Education Study, the Jesuit Self-Study for the California and Oregon Provinces, and the Notre Dame International Survey. (A report on the Jesuit Study can be found in Volume III, Chapter 9, of the General Survey of the Society of Jesus, North American Assistancy, edited by Bruce F. Biever, SJ and Thomas M. Gannon, SJ, 1969, National Office of Pastoral...

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Files on liturgical, theological or sacramental topics related to his teaching and scholarly research, with a preliminary inventory provided by his wife Barbara Searle.

Scope and Content Professional and personal correspondence; notes, galleys, and manuscripts of books written by O'Connell; articles and reviews collected or written by O'Connell; and collected sermons given by O'Connell, with a tape recording of his sermon for the consecration of Bishop James P. Shannon (31 March 1965); also a full run of clippings and typed submissions of a newspaper column, written by O'Connell, 1966-1974, on a wide variety of religious, social and political topics; and photographs. ...

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Mimeographed handouts, reports, correspondence, audio tapes, and printed ephemera having to do with Msgr. Joseph Cardijn and the Young Christian Workers, an organization associated with the Catholic Action or lay apostolate movement.

Scope and Content Interviews, 2006-2009, with teaching priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville by Michael A. Diebold: including 26 cassette tapes containing the interviews and one book: The Anointed Servants: Teaching Priests of the Archdiocese of Louisville by Michael A. Diebold, containing transcriptions of his oral history interviews, 2009. With 13 audio compact discs with oral history interviews concerning St Thomas Seminary in Louisville, a minor seminary that operated from...

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Theological manuscript defending the Catholic Church as the one true, infallible church on earth.

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Records of the Board, of the Chairpersons, of the Executive Secretaries or Executive Directors (Sister Paschaline Coff, OSB, Father Edward McCorkell, OCSO, Sister Katherine Howard, OSB, and Sister Mary Margaret Funk, OSB); financial records, publications, photographs, and audio-visual material; with documentation of the Gethsemani Encounter in 1996 and the Nuns in the West Conference in 2003.

Scope and Content Chiefly letters received by Joseph Napoleon Perché and papers that had come into his possession, including documents concerning the controversy over the foundation of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in the early 1830s, involving the founder, Saint Euphrasie Pelletier, and Basil Anthony Moreau, founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross; also handwritten booklets of notes and instruction, 1824-1831, concerning moral theology, the service of God, contrition, Baptism, and Holy Scripture....

Scope and Content Correspondence, convention material, financial files, committee files, subject files, and program files; concerning celibacy, due process in the church, human rights, priests in politics, women in the church, and rural ministry; involving the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the National Assembly of Women Religious, the Canon Law Society of America, the Catholic Peace Fellowship, Catholic Relief Services, the National Council of Churches,...

Scope and Content Early files of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, 1969-1972; general correspondence with members and non-members, 1975-1979; regional correspondence, 1973-1982; official by-laws, 1973-1982; board meeting correspondence, notes, and minutes, 1974-1988; needs assessment evaluations of NOCERCC, 1982-1984; speeches given and collected by NOCERCC presidents and board members, 1974-1976; membership records, 1973-1983; NOCERCC publications, including newsletters, presbyteral renewal...

Scope and Content Personal and research papers of Rev. Nelson J. Callahan; consisting of documents pertaining to Church affairs in the Diocese of Cleveland and the Archdiocese of New York; photocopies of Richard Lalor Burtsell's diary (1865-1912) and related material; and research papers regarding Rev. Eugene O'Callaghan, author of the Jus letters. Also printed material and photographs related to Father Callahan's research and audio tapes with recordings of talks, songs, and teacher training lectures given by...

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Special issues of newspapers, most of the Catholic, celebrating anniversaries of dioceses, bishops, and newspapers, or dealing with some special event or holiday.

Scope and Content Research material gathered by Norlene Kunkel (1931- ) for her dissertation, Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid and Catholic Education (University of Notre Dame, 1974); including a copy of her dissertation on McQuaid; copies of unpublished papers (conference papers, M.A. thesis); and photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, documents from other archives, and pamphlets. The photocopies of documents from other archives include nineteenth-century newspaper articles, pamphlets,...

Scope and Contents Documents created between 1856 and 1947 and collected by multiple individuals and institutions with connections to the town of Harbor Springs, Michigan, and surrounding communities. The bulk of the collection documents the efforts of Louise Obermiller and Andrew J. Blackbird to substantiate and defend claims to land ownership and annuities on behalf of Odawa and Ojibwa bands in Little Traverse Bay and nearby communities, stipulated in treaties signed with the United States government in 1836...

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Photocopies of correspondence and articles by and about Romero; his pastoral letters and speeches; books and pamphlets containing his writings, including his diary; and a biography by Jon Sobrino.

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Records kept by Fr Ramon Gaitan and Fr Juan Romero; consisting of bylaws, constitutions, press clippings, publications, directories, memoranda, letters, meeting material, papers from national congresses, recommendations, historical sketches, minutes, financial records, and interviews. Also audio recordings, slides and black-and-white photographic prints, publications by PADRES, and printed material collected by PADRES concerning Hispanic priests, bishops, sisters, and brothers.

Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...