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Monasticism and religious orders for women

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

John E. Rothensteiner Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: RTH
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...
Dates: 1877-1936.

Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MOS
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1975-2010

Ministry Resource Center Records

 Fonds
Identifier: MIN
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1981-1991

National Assembly of Religious Women (U.S.) Records

 Fonds
Identifier: ARW
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1968-[ongoing]

Religious Orders of Women Collection

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Identifier: ROW
Scope and Content Printed material concerning the Benedictines, Oblate Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, Carmelites, Sisters of St. Casimir, Sisters of Charity, Cistercian Nuns, Sisters of St. Clare, Sisters of the Divine Savior, Dominicans, Felician Sisters, Franciscans, Good Shepherd Sisters, Holy Cross Sisters, Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, Missionary Sisters, Servants of the Holy Spirit, Sisters of Loretto at the Foot of the Cross, Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Sisters, Servants of the...
Dates: 1900s

Religious Orders Printed Material

 Fonds
Identifier: REL
Scope and Content Pamphlets, leaflets, circulars, biographies, historical sketches, vocation booklets, newsletters, and books from religious orders and congregations throughout the United States, with information on their history, spirit, tradition, and way of life; including Benedictines, Cistercians, Franciscans, Dominicans, Trinitarians, Passionists, Carmelites, Norbertines, Jesuits, Augustinians, Sulpicians, Basilians, Vincentians, Marianists, Poor Clares, Felicians, Trappistines, Ursulines, Sisters of...
Dates: 1935-[ongoing]

Sisters of Loretto Records

 Fonds
Identifier: LOR
Scope and Content Correspondence and other documents in the archives of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide in Rome; involving the Sisters of Loretto, Father Charles Nerinckx, and Bishops Benedict Joseph Flaget, Martin John Spalding, and Francis Patrick Kenrick; letters and typewritten transcripts of letters written by or to Sisters of Loretto, including letters from bishops Simon Bruté, John Timon, CM, George A. Carrell, and Peter Joseph Lavialle; a dissertation entitled "Bishop Joseph Rosati, CM, and the...
Dates: 1806-1960.