Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings made by Brian H. Smith in Chile in 1975. These include recordings of interviews with Chilean bishops and recordings of Smith’s audio summaries of interviews with bishops which could not be recorded. Each interview consists of responses to a structured set of 41 survey quesitons concerning the pastoral, social and political aspects of the Catholic Church in Chile from 1925 to 1975. Also included are recordings of conversations with clergy and laity...

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Photographs from Notre Dame's property in Land O'Lakes, Wisconsin: six color prints representing a meeting of American bishops there; with images of Fr. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Fr. Phil Murnion, Msgr. Jack Egan, Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, and Adeline Steinhe, wife of the caretaker, with staff gathered in the kitchen.

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,...

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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.

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Typescripts of the seven addresses Bishop Sheridan delivered at the Diocesan Priests' Retreat, Pre-Advent, 1970.