Hesburgh Libraries

Scope and Content Pamphlets, leaflets, novenas, liturgical booklets, catechisms, pastoral lettters, papal encyclicals, reprints, and miscellaneous issues of periodicals; concerning the history of Catholicism in the United States, Catholic tradition, doctrine, clergy, religious orders, celibacy, Canon Law, Catholic Action, anti- Catholicism, the Bible, the social teaching of the popes, labor unions, scholasticism, immigration; the Second Vatican Council, birth control, saints, the Irish, Catholic missions and...

Scope and Content Records of the Association of Contemplative Sisters: consisting of early national records (late 1960s); correspondence of national officers (1972-1979); national assembly material; subject files containing regional reports, bishops' files, LCWR files; international files; correspondence and circulars from the files of ACS leaders Betty Enoch, (1978-1979), Lilla Marie Hull (1976-1978), and Anna Mae Dannes, OCD (1986-1989); Sisters Uniting files (1970s) including files concerning interaction...

Scope and Content Anonymous handwritten historical sketch with extracts of Petit's correspondence; concerning the foundation of the Congregation of Holy Cross in the United States and its condition circa 1857, the spiritual advantages of the Association of Indulgences, and the Potawatomie Indians in the vicinity of South Bend. Also a photocopy of an article from the Ave Maria concerning Petit (1865) and a copy of The Trail of Death: Letters of Benjamin Marie Petit edited by Irving...

Scope and Content Correspondence files of the founder, Brother Mathias Barrett, and financial records of the organization in its early years; correspondence files of the second Superior General Brother Camillus Harbinson, and records of council meetings and minutes, General Chapter papers, and information on individual houses during the years 1977-1986; correspondence files of the third Superior General Brother Justin Howson, and circulars and memos of the organization; General Chapter records; formation /...

Scope and Content Constitutions and statutes from the North American Province (1903-1986); rules from foreign provinces; CFP prayer books; statistical documents and directories; provincial newsletters; chronicles, commemoratives and necrologies collected and processed in the early 1990s under the supervision of Superior General Mark Gastel, CFP; newsletters and publications received from the provinces in Germany, Holland and Brazil; biographies of John Höver (Hoever) gathered during a translation project in...

Scope and Content Records of the CSRL Board, Corporation, and Executive Director; with committee files and financial records; files on the three sponsoring organizations and on other organizations; on scholars who worked with CSRL; on programs and publications; on topics of interest to CSRL; on CSRL exhibits and the LCWR exhibit; and on significant moments in CSRL history; including correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, press releases, photographs, audio tapes, videos, digital media, and other...

Scope and Content Correspondence of CMSM presidents, executive directors, executive comittee, and other committees; memoranda and reports from regional meetings and yearly general assemblies; an evaluation study of CMSM and records of the work of the CMSM Structures Task Force in response to the study; a copy of the book Who are my brothers? (1988) with related drafts, galleys, and correspondence; byproducts of a CMSM video, Brother is a Verb; microfilm of Joseph A. Varacalli's The American Catholic call for...

Scope and Content Records and papers from the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross (CSC); representing the careers of Fr. Edward Sorin 1830-1896; Fr. Alexis Granger 1832-1893; Fr. William Corby 1858-1897; Fr. John A. Zahm 1873-1922; and the provincial administrations of Fr. Andrew Morrissey 1906-1920; Fr. Charles O'Donnell 1920-1926; Fr. George Finnigan 1926-1927; Fr. James Burns 1927-1938; and Fr. Thomas Steiner 1938-1950. Also 1841-1926 records of the Notre Dame CSC Community; 1840-1982...

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Correspondence, reports, constitutions, directories, publications, documentation of meetings, records of activities and institutions, representing the general adminstration of the congregation as it interacted with its provinces, institutions, and members, and with bishops and the Vatican.

Scope and Content Records (1957-1994; bulk 1970-1992) of the Consortium Perfectae Caritatis: consisting of bylaws, constitutions, correspondence, memoranda, minutes, agenda, reports, surveys, interviews, articles, clippings, pamphlets, books, programs, liturgies, photographs, and audio tapes; documenting the development of the Consortium, the actions of its administrative board, its general assemblies, and other activities; including material on issues and events of interest to the Consortium (such as...

Scope and Content Correspondence (1873-1933) with contributors of articles or poetry including Eliza Allen Starr, Charles Warren Stoddard, Maurice Francis Egan, Christian Reid (Frances Tiernan), and many others both in this country and in England; letters from Archbishop Patrick William Riordan, and Bishops Bernard McQuaid, John Lancaster Spalding, and Camillus Paul Maes; a manuscript by Eliza Allen Starr, Woman in Art; part of Bishop Sylvester Rosecrans' autobiographical account of his conversion;...

Scope and Content Correspondence, memoranda, newsletters, notes, and material distributed at meetings; with files on Northern Ireland, Ecumenism, Jesuits, Pax Christi, Justice and Peace, Common Liturgical Texts for Christians, and interaction with bishops and other priests; manuscripts and research files for Bowman's book More Than the Troubles: A Common Sense View of the Northern Ireland Conflict (1984); Irish, Irish-American, and other newspapers, magazines, catalogs, brochures,...

Scope and Content Pamphlets, catechisms, encyclicals, and pastoral letters concerning the lay apostolate, the Mystical Body of Christ, birth control, the Holy Ghost, heaven, forbidden books, worship, marriage and family life, education, parochial schools, conversion, the constitution, communism, college life, Church and State, Catholic Action, the Bible, atheism, the Blessed Virgin Mary, shrines, migration, immigration, refugees, the military, nuns, peace, the poor, prayer, the life of priests and brothers,...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1941-1955; copies of letters from John Tracy Ellis, 1927-1970, and of a memoir by Ellis; sermons and writings by Cardinal; correspondence, minutes, and printed material from such organizations as NCCJ, 1940s-1950s, Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), 1943-1954, and Sheil School, 1943-1954; Cardinal's subject files concerning brotherhood (1930s-1960s), American Catholic history (1920s), youth, adult education, and Bishop Bernard Sheil; printed material on anti-semitism...

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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.

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,...

Scope and Content Record books of the Sisters and of their institutions, 1874-2009, including records of members, financial records, and some student records; and ephemeral publications of schools run by the sisters: student periodicals and circulars for alumnae; vocation and formation files, 1932-2000; films, some concerning their New Guinea missionaries; audio recordings including oral histories, the Gospel of Mark in the Crow language with a written text, and songs of celebration; also a film strip program...

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,...

Scope and Content Primarily correspondence; correspondents include Henry Hussman, John B. Quinn, Boniface Rauch, OSB, and Theodore Vose; some of the correspondence involves Ursuline Sisters, School Sisters of Notre Dame, and the Missouri State Historical Society. Also manuscripts of several historical articles, a catalog of Rothensteiner's personal library and of the Rothensteiner collection at Mundelein College; and personal papers of William Faerber (1841- 1905). The Notre Dame University...

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Correspondence, 1970-1978; manuscripts of talks and articles by Davis; subject files, 1970-1977; an oral history interview with Davis, 21 January 1972; and printed material collected by Davis, 1970s.

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...

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Correspondence, 1959-1974; Owens' writings, including a manuscript of "Maryland Emigration to Kentucky, 1785-1812," 1968; clippings and reviews of Owens' works, 1960s-1970s; research material and printed matter on the origins and history of the Sisters of Loretto; and a tape of an interview of Sister Owens by Roy J. McCarthy on KMOX radio, St. Louis, 1964 concerning her booklet "The St. Louis Hospital, 1828," 1964.

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Papers (1974-2010) consisting of notes, agenda, reports, correspondence, speeches, articles, writings, and presentations; with files on family issues, adolescents and sex, abortion, in vitro fertilization, birth control, Catholic education, women religious, the role of the laity, the Hastings Center, the National Pastoral Life Center, and the Catholic Common Ground Project and the years of meetings leading up to it.

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...

Scope and Content Papers of Mary Margaret Funk, OSB, including family documents, records of her time as prioress of her monastery and of her involvement in Monastic Interreligious Dialogue, documentation of her experience in Bolivia, texts from her blog, printed material, and drafts and copies of her books. Correspondence, memoranda, outlines, essays, photographs, newsletters, clippings, brochures, and other printed material regarding Contemplative Outreach and its programs, Rev. Thomas Keating, ocso, and...

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Executive Director's files, historical data, research files, development files, and copies of Ministry Bulletin; with information on the Midwest Project (diocesan surveys, 1982-1987); documentation of meetings of the board of directors; financial papers; reports and publications of the Center; slide shows, photographs, video tapes, a film, and a cassette audio tape.

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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 Material associated with annual meetings of the Religious Brothers Institute and the National Assembly of Religious Brothers; consisting of correspondence, memoranda, programs, circular letters, mimeographed and printed handouts, press releases, newsletters, bulletins, financial papers, photographs, audio-visual material, and printed material including periodicals published by NARB: Brothers' Bulletin, Brothers' Newsletter, ...

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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.

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...