Hesburgh Libraries

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Correspondence, organizational records, budgets, newsletters, surveys, memoranda, printed matter, clippings, cassettes, films, and photographs; concerning justice, the role of women in the church, economic and racial inequality, nuclear disarmament, and U.S. policy in Central America. Correspondents include Sisters Ethne Kennedy, SSJ, Marjorie Tuite, OP, Merle Nolde, OSB, Catherine Pinkerton, CSJ, Mary O'Keefe, OP, and Kathleen Keating, SSJ.

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Records of the National Association for Lay Ministry, 1978-1997; consisting of board minutes and related documents, committee and task-force files, spirituality and theology files, membership files, documentation of the annual conference, correspondence, and research and development files; including periodicals, reports, surveys, studies, historical sketches, and documents from local chapters and regional meetings.

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Records of the National Association for Treasurers of Religious Institutes, 1982-2008, with information on early NATRI history, records of NATRI conferences, correspondence, reports, handbook, publications, office leases, articles of incorporation, bylaws, and board minutes; and records of the Legal Resource Center for Religious, 1984-2008, including bylaws, strategic planning, audit reports, brochures, legal seminar records, reports, correspondence, board minutes, and financial files.

Scope and Content Records of the National Association of Diocesan Ecumenical Officers (NADEO), 1973-1998; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, minutes and other meeting material, brochures, constitutions and by-laws, newsletters, survey papers, questionnaires, brochures, newsletters, handbooks, and policy statements; documenting NADEO finances, workshops, publications, radio and television publicity, and relationship with EDEO (Episcopal Diocesan Ecumenical Officers); with files representing the National...

Scope and Content Records of the NBCCC dating from 1964 to 2016; with files from board meetings and general meetings, chronological files, membership lists, files organized by Rev. Cyprian Davis, OSB, newsletters, printed ephemera, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, clippings, and other documents concerning the activities and interests of the organization. Also included are materials of allied organizations including the National Black Catholic Seminarians Association, the National Office for Black...

Scope and Content Editorial correspondence (1964-1990), minutes and meeting material from the board of directors (1964-1976); publisher's files (1964-1985); financial and fundraising records (1964-1979); advertising and marketing records (ca. 1964-1977); audio and video tape recordings of an abortion debate between Daniel Maguire and James T. Burtchaell (9 February 1987); and photographs. Principle correspondents include editors Robert G. Hoyt, Arthur Jones, and Thomas C. Fox; publishers Michael...

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Correspondence and printed circular letters of the Council and Gibbons.

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Records and resource files of the NCUEA; consisting of papers of Geno Baroni, John Kromkowski and other NCUEA directors and staff members; correspondence, ledgers, financial records, manuscripts, curricula vitae, interviews, clippings, photocopies, mimeographed material, government publications, and other printed material; having to do with projects funded by government grants, and with topics of interest to NCUEA, including domestic and foreign ethnic issues.

Scope and Content Correspondence, minutes, newsletters, printed circulars, programs, papers, reports, guidelines, resource directories, membership lists, mailings, and mission statements: including documents (1967-1968) from the early days of the National Conference of Vicars for Religious: Records and notes from NCVR Annual Assemblies (1970- ), Executive Board minutes; NCVR secretary's files (1970- ), including correspondence of secretary with treasurer; reading files (Prior to 1986, 1986-1989); financial...

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Records a meeting of the National Congress of Religious at Notre Dame in 1952, including photographs.

Scope and Content Minutes, financial reports, mail directories, clippings and policy resolutions of the national NFCCS (1940s-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, agenda, and press releases of NFCCS national congresses (1947-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, and correspondence of NFCCS- sponsored commissions including the Forensic Commission (1943-1959), Philosophy Commission (1955-1961), Literary Commission (1955-1966), Interracial Justice Commission (1944-1964), Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...

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 Microfilmed excerpts of books containing texts and translations of 12th to 14th century Irish documents; including 12th century correspondence concerning the invasion of Ireland by King Henry II; 14th century letters of submission from chiefs and kings of Ireland to King Richard II; the charter to the city of Dublin (1171-1229); the statutes of the city of Kilkenny (1366); and a (12th century?) mythological account of Ireland from the time of the biblical flood until the birth of St....

Scope and Content Correspondence; minutes and meeting material, including financial reports, from the national board; articles, dissertations, and theses concerning the Marriage Encounter movement and related topics; position papers, manuals, and written descriptions of the program for the Marriage Encounter weekend; reports, correspondence, and other records from NME annual national conferences and other meetings; and tape recordings. Correspondents include Rev. Gabriel Calvo, Pat and Patty...

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Correspondence of Brother Joseph M. Davis, S.M. (1927- ) executive director of the NOBC, founded in 1970. Correspondence regards, for the most part, donations and retreat projects.

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...

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Records of the National Pastoral Life Center; including general office files, Church magazine files, development files, pastoral services files, Roundtable files, New Pastors' Workshop files, Executive Director files, and files of NPLC founder and director Msgr. Philip J. Murnion; with photo albums, videos, and other audio-visual material; and 49,767 computer files amounting to 33 Gigabytes of digital data.

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Records of Notre Dame Foundation Director John H. Wilson, C.S.C., including photographs.

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Poetry manuscripts of Jean E.U. Nealis, 1885-1899; holy cards from paintings by Mother Margaret Nealis, RSCJ, superior of Sacred Heart Convent, Montreal; the nostalgic correspondence of N.J. Nealis with John F. O'Hara, CSC, President of the University of Notre Dame, 1934-1935; and a few other letters and clippings by or about members of the Nealis family.

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Papers having to do with the proposed merger of Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College (in Notre Dame, Indiana) from Saint Mary's point of view, 1967-1972: correspondence, reports, clippings.

Scope and Content Research files of Heather Hartel concerning Father Nelson H. Baker: consisting of general Lackawanna & Bethlehem Steel history from Lexis / Nexis; Buffalo News articles on Father Baker; copies from the Buffalo Library's local news archives on Father Baker; websites that mentioned Baker; material from the Redemptorist Provincial Archives by Thomas A. Galvin, author of the book on Baker, Modern Apostle of Charity, 1925; bibliographies of Father Baker Sources;...

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...

Scope and Content Abortion material (re Network's non-position); Associated Organization files; Church Social Justice Teaching files; Church Statements; Citizen Budget Campaign files; Correspondence arranged by state; Development and Fundraising files; Direct Mail and Promotional files; Educational resources published by Network; Election Workship files and Charts 1988 and 1992; Equal Rights Amendment files; Federal Budget Material; Field Office material; Field Organizing Material; Fundraising files; Housing...

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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 Letters received, 1888-1902, most of them having to do with the publication of his Epitome of the New Testament, a book of selections in Greek; printed copies of his Epitome (1900) and Poikila Diegemata, Anekdota, Axiomata kai Erothseis (1885), a booklet of Greek inventions intended to entertain Notre Dame students; seven manuscripts on philosophy, logic, moral theology, ancient literature, liturgy, reading, and Latin grammar; and...

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Correspondence; financial records such as expense accounts; manuscripts of speeches given at the Julius Arthur Nieuwland memorial exercises, January 10, 1937 and printed matter such as Nieuwland's The Story of Synthetic Rubber, 1935.

Scope and Content Polcyn's diary, 1941-1943, relating experiences with Bishop Bernard Sheil; correspondence, including letters from Frank Sheed, Maisie Ward, Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Eddie Doherty, Hans Ansgar Reinhold, Donald Attwater, Renard Koehnemann, Ann Harrigan Makletzoff and a letter from Dorothy Day; clippings concerning Bishop Bernard Sheil, John Cogley, and Pat and Patty Crowley, 1941-1979. One folder concerning the unionization of the CYO, consisting of correspondence, memoranda,...

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Biographical photographs showing military activities in Salina, KS; with one photo of Mary C. Skelly in a room at St. Mary of the Woods.

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Personal and professional correspondence, 1933-1976; drafts of poetry; copies of publications, 1927-1972; clippings concerning Engels and his family; teaching records; maps from his Wisconsin property and family trips; scrapbooks; and photographs.