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Records of the Catholic Committee on Urban Ministry, including audio-visual material and photographs.

Scope and Content The Catholic Directories or Almanacs provide information concerning the Roman Catholic archdioceses and dioceses of the United States, their clergy and parishes, and the religious orders and Catholic institutions that operate within them, including schools, seminaries, monasteries, convents, hospitals, and orphanages. They often have similar information on the Catholic Church in Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland. In 1995 Mark G. Thiel compiled an Index to...

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Records of the Catholic Human Relations Council of Union County, NJ; consisting of correspondence, notes, clippings, mimeographed and spirit-duplicated handouts, printed ephemera, pamphlets, and books.

Scope and Content Books, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, yearbooks, catalogues, bulletins, newsletters, and other printed material pertaining to some 400 Catholic institutions located throughout the United States, though primarily in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio; concerning educational facilities (parish schools, high schools run by dioceses and religious orders, academies, colleges, and universities); hospitals, infirmaries and sanitariums; charitable services (orphanages, asylums, mission homes, and homes for...

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Correspondence of Paul Joseph Foik, CSC, regarding the Catholic Library Association and the chief project of the Association's early years, the Catholic Periodical Index; including executive council correspondence with Colman Farrell, OSB, and William FitzGerald, presidents of the CLA in the 1930s.

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Chiefly story books written by brothers of the Congregation of Holy Cross telling the lives of saints; with some books about priests, sisters, classical composers, sports heroes, and other exemplary Catholics; also books for children by other Catholic authors brought out by other publishers, including standard Catholic readers dating from 1909; and a dozen illustrated pamphlets, most of them by Daniel A. Lord, SJ, teaching children about prayers, liturgy, and sacraments.

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Letters addressed to the Charles H. Ridder, editor and publisher of the Catholic News, almost all from prominent members of the American Catholic community and most replying to the News' inquiry regarding the advisability of establishing a Catholic daily in the United States.

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Correspondence, 1910-1939; minutes, 1912-1923; quarterly and annual financial reports, 1910-1934; clippings; life insurance policies, 1923-1934; and receipts for insurance payments, 1933-1935; and personal papers of the group's recording secretary, John J. Ryan, including clippings, union membership records, and greeting cards, 1896-1958.

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Manuscripts of talks and articles, organizational material for protest activities, newspaper and magazine clippings, press statements, photographs, and letters, including correspondence with Daniel and Philip Berrigan, Thomas Merton, James Forest, Dorothy Day, Thomas Cornell, George McGovern, and Robert F. Kennedy.

Scope and Content Papers of John J. Daily, CPA President (1958-1960); and Jim Doyle's Files, including correspondence, reports, promotional material, exhibitions, nominations and elections files, financial files, committee files, postal affairs, talks, membership files, seminars, press conferences, copyright information, surveys, proposals, conference files, and "CPA History" files. Microfilm containing records of the Catholic Press Association, 1911-1950; consisting of reports, minutes, and...

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Files of clippings and other printed material about the Catholic press and Catholic periodicals, with a few files representing the secular press; also some files representing the work of Eugene P. Willging concerning the Catholic press.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of programming and work tapes of the Catholic Television Network of Detroit (CTND) which was owned by the Archdiocese of Detroit. The time span for the materials is from 1948 until 2019 with the bulk of the materials spanning from 1982 until 2019. The station was closed in 2020.Topics of note include:Coverage of Church events: Pope John Paul II’s Visit to Detroit, 1987 and commemorative anniversary programming the following years; the Papal...

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Director's Files, Inactive Administrative Files, Roger Knight's Desk files, and State of Latino Chicago files. All the files date from the 2000s and relate to the administration of the Center, research projects (especially the Berwyn-Cicero Needs Assessment), conferences, workshops, meetings, presentations, organizations, and resource material. Includes a substantial number of cassette audio tapes of research interviews and many computer disks and CDs of data files and software.

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, subject files, tape recordings, and lectures of the Center's directors (William Ryan, SJ, 1971-1977, and Peter Henriot, SJ, 1977- ); correspondence and subject files kept by staff members James Blewett, Mary Burke, Joe Holland, George Ann Potter, Maria Riley, Jim Hug, and Mike Schultheis; ledgers, contribution cards, and other financial files; manuscripts of books, pamphlets, and articles; position papers, back issues of Center Focus, and other Center publications; and...

Scope and Content Correspondence and collected articles of Gordon Zahn, co-founder and director of the Center on Conscience and War; correspondence of the CCW staff, responding to inquiries and distributing printed material supporting the Center's cause. Correspondents include Bryan Hehir, Michael Dukakis, Sargent Shriver, and Catholic peace organizations, among them Pax Christi USA, the Commission on Catholic Community Action, and the United States Catholic Conference Department of Social Development and...

Scope and Content Office files kept by the Coordinating Committee of the Christian Family Movement, Young Christian Workers (later known as the Young Christian Movement), and Young Christian Students. Material documenting meetings of the Coordination Committee, but also material collected from the organizations, representing their activities and interests. Coordinating Committee records also appear in the files of the individual organizations in related collections kept in the Archives of the University of...

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Military papers, 1862-1865; passport and letters of reference, 1898; and proceedings of the fourth (Boston, 1871) and fifth (Cleveland, 1872) annual reunions of the Society of the Sixth Army Corps, Army of the Potomac (printed in New York, 1973).

Scope and Content Bound manuscript of Zenosius; or The Pilgrim-convert by Charles Constantine Pise (published in New York by Edward Dunigan, 1845). A book-length apologetical fiction, it tells the story of a protestant named Zenosius who, with the help of angels, visions, and wise priests, finds his way out of the Labyrinth of Sectarianism (also called the Labyrinth of Error) and makes a pilgrimage to Rome. According to the preface, the book is "not controversial, but explanatory. Its scope is...

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Booklets containing radio sermons and lectures.

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Research files of Charles Craypo, most of them having to do with his interest in the working poor, with files representing his local research and one box on his research into the telegraph industry; with information on Trade and Jobs, Economic History, Heilbroner, Income Distribution, Income Inequality, and Socio-Economic Clases. Also a few files related to his teaching, confidential folders with information on students, and two index card files.

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Mimeographed pamphlet, poster, press statement; spirit duplicator handouts; and clippings having to do with the boycott in support of Fr. Charles Curran at the Catholic University of America in 1967.

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Correspondence, 1940s-1970s; sermons, meditations, lectures, articles, and book reviews by Sheedy; teaching records such as grade books, 1943-1952, and class syllabi, 1960s-1970s; printed matter including the Chaplain's Digest, 1943-1946, edited by Sheedy; personal papers including passports, his father's obituary (1942), and finaincial records from the disposition of his father's estate; and photographs.

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Correspondence; programs; minutes from the American Association of Teachers of French, Indiana Chapter, 1950- 1968, and the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association, 1950s-1960s; and a program for the Catholic Association of Foreign Language Teachers, 1967.

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Correspondence, 1910s-1974; briefs submitted by Fahy as Solictor General, 1941-1945; cases handled by Fahy as counsel for NLRB, 1935-1940; articles and book reviews by Fahy, 1930s-1970s; clippings of Fahy, 1910s-1970s; and printed material collected by Fahy.

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Xerox copies of letters received from Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, Isaac Thomas Hecker, Victor Gay, and Elias Lyman Magoon.

Scope and Content Papers that Weiher created over the course of his life and career consisting of clipping files, teaching files, notebooks, class records, handouts, homemade textbooks, sketch books, reading notes on philosophy publications, and manuscripts of writings; childhood and family materials; holy cards and memorial cards; books and pamphlets on apologetics vs. atheism, on science, and on change; and digital documents representing his research and teaching. Collection also includes photographs and...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1940-1960s; teaching records including grade books (1947-1958), exams, a proposal for establishing a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering (1961), minutes of the Committee on the Philosophy of Science (1954-1957), minutes of the Curriculum Committee, University of Notre Dame (1959-1961), and correspondence, reports, and printed matter from the Committee on the Undergraduate Physics Program (1953); his articles, lectures, mathematical equations, and records of experiments; and...

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Personal letters to his mother, 1821-1837, and to his sister, Lady Throckmorton, 1831 and 1837.

Scope and Content Memoranda, research papers, xeroxed articles, and ephemera in support of the composition and revision of the United States Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the Economy; drafts, recommendations, and amendments of the letter, correspondence among bishops, and records of committees, including the Ad Hoc Committee on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. Also papers, 1957-1968, representing his early work as a lay missionary in Puerto Rico; lectures and essays reflecting his interests as an...