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Catholic press

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works dealing with Catholic opinion, literary production, and propaganda as expressed in Catholic journals, newspapers, and periodicals.

Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:

Anthony Kerrigan Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: KRG
Scope and Content Correspondence, including letters from Saul Bellow, John Dos Passos, Robert Graves, Edwin Honig, Russell Kirk, and Mark Mirsky; manuscripts of book reviews, essays, poetry, short stories and translations, including works by Jorge Luis Borges, Camilo Jose Cela, Reinaldo Arenas, Jose Ortega y Gasset, and Miguel de Unamuno; personal records and documents, including the FBI's file on Kerrigan; clippings on Cuba and Nicaragua under Communist regimes; and books and journals containing Kerrigan's...
Dates: 1955-1990.; 1955-1990.

Arthur Preuss Papers

 Fonds — Box UNDA-CC-0001
Identifier: PRE
Scope and Content Letters (1895-1935) from John J. Ming, S.J., of St. Ignatius College in Cleveland, Joseph H. Meier of the Official Catholic Directory, Frederick P. Kenkel of the Catholic Central Verein, Joseph M. Schifferli of the (Buffalo) Echo, Peter Guilday of the American Catholic Historical Association, Simon Baldus of the Catholic Press Association, and others; correspondence between Preuss and F. Makert, SVD, of the Mission Press, Techny, Illinois (1905-1931); correspondence with and concerning...
Dates: 1882-1933.

Austin E. Ford Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: FRD
Scope and Content Correspondence with John W. Mahan dating from the time of Ford's work on the Irish World; correspondence with Thomas O'Gorman, professor of church history at Catholic University in Washington D.C. and later bishop of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Bishop John Ireland of St. Paul, Minnesota, concerning the Americanist controversy in the 1890s; correspondence with Frank Dosert concerning the production in Rome in 1893 of a Mass which he wrote; correspondence with John W. Munson and others...
Dates: 1885-1897.

Ave Maria Magazine Records

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Identifier: AVE
Scope and Content Chiefly manuscripts submitted for publication, 1890s - 1920s, with work by John Ayscough, A.M. Berlinquet, Nora Byeman, L. Joan Chubb, the Countess de Courson, Charles A. Dobson, Joseph Dutton, Maurice Francis Egan, M. de la Fontaine, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Marie Marchal, Edward Wilbur Mason, Marian Nesbitt, M. Barry O'Delany, Christian Reid, Nigel Robinson, Magdalen Rock, Anna T. Sadlier, Charles Warren Stoddard, and others; Also editorial correspondence, 1895-1929; a ledger listing Ave...
Dates: 1865-1979

Ave Maria Press Records

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Identifier: AVM
Scope and Content General files of publisher John L. Reedy, CSC, 1953-1983, editorial files 1956-1983, and financial records 1940-1983; including correspondence, biographical profiles of authors, permissions, diaries, agenda, logs, lists, reprints, and records of advertising, publicity, and circulation; with material concerning conferences and meetings, bishops' synods, syndicated columns, Today magazine, A.D. magazine, the Ave Maria Board of Governors, the relationship between Ave Maria and the University of...
Dates: 1940-[ongoing].

Catholic Press Association Records

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Identifier: CPA
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...
Dates: 1911-[Ongoing].

Charles Warren Stoddard Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: STO
Scope and Content

Diaries, 1884-1885; correspondence, 1870-1908, including a letter concerning religion from Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), 1 June 1885; manuscripts of Stoddard's work such as For the Pleasure of His Company, "St. Anthony, Wonder Worker of Padua," and "School Days at Notre Dame, 1885-1886"; and articles about Stoddard. Correspondents include Theodore F. Dwight, Daniel Hudson, CSC, William H. Rideing, and Richard Henry Savage.

Diaries also available on 3 reels of microfilm.

Dates: 1870-1927.

Commonweal Records

 Fonds
Identifier: CWL
Scope and Content Editorial correspondence (1976-1989), original manuscripts accepted for publication (1967-1984), unused articles (1979-1983), financial records (1926-1978), subscription lists (1979 and 1982-1983), and photographs. Also material on the Charles E. Curran controversy, Synods of Bishops (1984-1989), and editorial correspondence (1938) relating to the journal's controversial stand on the Spanish Civil War, along with copies of speeches and biographical notes (ca. 1930) by Michael...
Dates: 1926-[ongoing]

Donald J. Thorman Papers

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Identifier: DJT
Scope and Content

Correspondence; manuscripts of articles and his book The Emerging Layman (1962); research files of clippings, newsletters, and articles; copies of articles by and about Thorman; copies of his speeches; and family and business documents.

Records relating to Thorman's tenure with NCR are in the NCR collection (CNCR). His work with Ave Maria, Act, and Voice of St. Jude is documented only by bound volumes of the publications for some of the years of his employment.

Dates: 1942-1976.

Eduard Adam Skendzel Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: SKZ
Scope and Content

Chiefly collected material concerning Polish Catholics in the United States, including printed material, notes, photocopies of newspaper articles, unpublished papers, copies of documents from other archives, color slides, and audio recordings; with parish histories and accounts of Polish history in various regions of the United States.

Dates: 1830s-1999

Fides Collection

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Identifier: FID
Scope and Content

A copy of everything published by Fides; also a few related documents and photographs.

Dates: 1943-1982

Frederick Kenkel Papers

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Identifier: KNA
Scope and Content Correspondence, speeches, reports, and other papers; with material on the Kenkel family, clippings, maps, notebooks, a reel of microfilm containing letters from Kenkel to Joseph Matt (1906-1913), photographs of Kenkel and members of his family and books from Kenkel's library. Correspondents include Woodrow Wilson, Herbert Hoover, John A. Ryan, Congressman John J. Cochran, and Brother Joseph Dutton. Extensive family correspondence includes letters from those serving in World War...
Dates: 1871-1952.

Gary MacEoin Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: GME
Scope and Content List of early writings, 1934- ; notebook diary - Trinidad, 1945; talks, 1960s-1990; letters, bulk 1960s- ; articles; press credentials and personal material; research material; book contracts; liberation theology file; course outline for United States - Latin American Relations course taught at Fordham, Lincoln Center, 1971-1973, and Fairleigh Dickenson Univ., NJ; Voice of America material - Spanish; Oxfam study tours - Univ. of Essex H.R. Report; The Nation (Conflict); files on his writing:...
Dates: 1934-2002

George Nauman Shuster Papers

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Identifier: SHU
Scope and Content Correspondence, reports, minutes, interviews, notebooks, clippings, contracts with publishers, and drafts of essays, speeches, and books; including letters from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jacques Maritain, Padraic Colum, Hilaire Belloc, Van Wyck Brooks, Francis J. Sheed, Saul Alinsky, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Heinrich Bruning, and Konrad Adenauer; with material pertaining to his visits to Germany in 1937- 1938,...
Dates: 1918-1977.

Gerhart Niemeyer Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: GNM
Scope and Content

Correspondence, 1965-1977; subject files, including files on Heller, Solzhenitsyn, Voegelin, and Wittfogel; publications, lectures, research notes and drafts, Episcopal church matters, sermons (1973-1993), musical and personal matters, and financial material.

Thanks to Prof. John Roos and graduate research assistant Adam Seagrave for providing abstracts describing the contents of each folder of manuscripts.

Dates: 1965-1993

Humphrey Joseph Desmond Letters received

 Fonds
Identifier: ZAI
Scope and Content

Letters that Desmond, the editor of the Catholic Citizen, received from prominent members of the Catholic hierarchy and preserved for their autograph value. Originally arranged in a scrapbook together with some printed material concerning the correspondents.

Dates: 1890-1908.

James Alphonsus McMaster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MMA
Scope and Content

Correspondence with bishops, priests, prominent Catholics, and relatives, especially his son John; and drafts of a series of articles on prophecies.

Calendared

ms 67-528

Dates: 1844-1886.

John A. O'Brien Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: OBR
Scope and Content Manuscripts of books, plays, and articles; correspondence, notes, reprints, clippings, news releases, syndicated columns, artifacts, photographs, tape recordings, and subject files; and Catholic pamphlets and books by O'Brien and others; concerning priestly celibacy, birth control, the Masons, converts, anti- Catholicism, evolution, education, and the Crusade for Souls. Most of Father O'Brien's papers and printed material (over 60 linear feet) came to the archives as part of the...
Dates: 1920-1975

John Cogley Papers

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Identifier: COG
Scope and Content Correspondence and subject files; copies of published articles and columns; drafts of Cogley's memoirs (A Canterbury Tale); bound volumes of Today (1947-1950) and the Chicago Catholic Worker (1938-1941); clippings of his reports on the Second Vatican Council for Religious News Service (1964) and of his columns for the diocesan press (1967-1968); correspondence and clippings relating to his writing for the New York Times (1964-1975); an unpublished manuscript of a collection of his writing...
Dates: 1938-1978

John Matthias Papers

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Identifier: JEM
Scope and Content Papers of John Matthias, consisting of notebooks; drafts of poems, essays, and editorial work; limited and signed editions and/or pamphlets and chapbooks; letters from British and American poets; drafts of translations and correspondence with translators; letters from editors, critics and scholars; and other files documenting his career as poet, critic, scholar, translator, teacher, poetry fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, editor of Notre Dame Review, and the subject of literary study by a...
Dates: 1935-2010

Joseph A. Breig Papers

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Identifier: BRI
Scope and Content Correspondence, manuscripts, and printed material including clippings and offprints of articles, columns, and book reviews; representing Breig's interest in Catholicism, the Garabandal Apparitions, abortion, and Humanae Vitae; with samples of editorial work and promotional material, cartoons by Earl Wolf based on ideas suggested by Breig, and poems by Breig's friends; also a small quantity of photographs, certificates and drawings by Breig, including material from...
Dates: 1888-1981

Maurice Francis Egan Papers

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Identifier: MEG
Scope and Content Correspondence, 1881-1922, including a letter from Egan to Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, 18 December 1911, and letters written by Bishop M.A. Corrigan and Eustace Cullinan; manuscripts of fiction and poetry; and a copy of Egan's The Leopard of Lancianus and Other Short Stories (1898). Also microfilm containing correspondence from the archives' calendared collections and material from various issues of the Notre Dame Scholastic by and about Maurice Francis...
Dates: 1879-1922.

Michael C. Wales Papers

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Identifier: WLS
Scope and Content Correspondence, expense reports, project schedules, and advertising samples from work done for The National Catholic Reporter (1967-1978), Link (1972-1974), Successful Marriage (1973-1975), Celebration (1972-1978), Passionist Missions (1973-1982), Holy Cross Association (1964-1966), Divine Word Seminary (1970-1972), Ave Maria Press (ca.1957-1970), Catholic Church Extension Society (1965-1966), the Claretian publications (1962-1983) U.S. Catholic, Today, and Claretian vocation ads. ...
Dates: 1957-1983.

Michael Novak Collection

 Fonds
Identifier: NVK
Scope and Content Books and journals with contributions by Michael Novak, 1961-1990s; with material regarding Michael Novak as recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1986 and winner of the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion in 1994. Also clippings, copies of typewritten manuscripts for syndicated columns, and publications citing or reacting to his ideas. Arranged alphabetically by title under these headings: Books and Pamphlets, Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, Reprints, Columns and Clippings,...
Dates: 1961-2004.

National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company Records

 Fonds
Identifier: NCR
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...
Dates: 1964-[ongoing]

Orestes Augustus Brownson Papers

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Identifier: BRO
Scope and Content Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George...
Dates: 1823-1876.

Our Sunday Visitor Records

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Identifier: OSV
Scope and Content Correspondence concerning OSV publications and copies of the publications themselves; OSV minutes and communications, 1968-1971; OSV circulation and financial records, 1950s-1971; minutes of OSV staff meetings, 1961-1967; correspondence and contracts with Teamsters Union and Typographical Union; appointment book, 1965; correspondence and transcripts of recipients of Archbishop Noll Scholarships, 1955-1971; records relating to OSV college grants, 1950s-1970s; reproduction of Catholic Telegram...
Dates: 1912-2016

Paul C. Bussard Papers

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Identifier: BUS
Scope and Content Clippings documenting Bussard's development of the Leaflet Missal (1929-1930), his reports from Europe (1947), and his participation in the Holy Year Press Flight (1950); correspondence, memoranda, reports, budgets, graphs, affadavits, depositions, pleadings, subpoenas, and clippings related to his suit against St. Thomas College and Catholic Digest, initiated in 1969 when the college, to which Bussard had given his stock in the magazine, removed him from his job as publisher; including...
Dates: 1929-1978

Philip J. Scharper Papers

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Identifier: PJS
Scope and Content Background material including biographical sketches, obituaries, notebooks, and files dating from Scharper's years as a student, a Jesuit scholastic (1937-1948), and a college professor (1947-1955); subject files representing his service to the Bridgeport Diocese, the Christophers, the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the John XXIII Institute, Maryknoll and Orbis Books, the Religious Education Association, Sacred Heart University, Sheed and Ward, the Second Vatican Council, and...
Dates: 1945-1992

Ralph M. McInerny Papers

 Fonds
Identifier: MCN
Scope and Content Manuscripts of literary and philosophical essays, articles, lectures, and books; notebooks and diaries (1947-1986), correspondence (1954-1987), and alphabetical files; involving Jacques Maritain, Soren Kierkegaard, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, G.K. Chesterton, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Walker Percy, and other philosophers and writers; concerning contemporary Thomism, analogy, natural law, Humanae Vitae, the Second Vatican Council, and changes in the Catholic Church; with drafts and some...
Dates: 1943-2010