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Correspondence, 1960s-1970s; minutes, correspondence, and reports from such groups as the Movement for the Restoration of the Lay Diaconate, the Bishops Committee on a Permanent Diaconate, and the U.S. Section of Women Aspiring to Presbyteral Ministry, 1970s; clippings concerning Lynch's quest for ordination; tape recordings; and printed matter such as Genesis III, the newsletter of the Philadelphia Task Force on Women in Religion, 1960s-1970s.

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Mimeographed handouts, reports, correspondence, audio tapes, and printed ephemera having to do with Msgr. Joseph Cardijn and the Young Christian Workers, an organization associated with the Catholic Action or lay apostolate movement.

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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.

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,...

Scope and Content Research material gathered by Norlene Kunkel (1931- ) for her dissertation, Bishop Bernard J. McQuaid and Catholic Education (University of Notre Dame, 1974); including a copy of her dissertation on McQuaid; copies of unpublished papers (conference papers, M.A. thesis); and photocopies of journal articles, newspaper articles, documents from other archives, and pamphlets. The photocopies of documents from other archives include nineteenth-century newspaper articles, pamphlets,...

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Chiefly mimeographed copies of letters, 1923-1939, involving Monsignor John A. Ryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Josephus Daniels, H.L. Mencken, and others; concerning such topics as Hitler, Father Coughlin, pacifism, anti-semitism, profit sharing, and religious tolerance; with a few autograph letters from Callahan to Frederick Kenkel of the Catholic Central Verein; and a paper by William E. Ellis, "Patrick Henry Callahan: A Kentucky Democrat in National Politics," 1976.

Scope and Content Includes correspondence; manuscripts and reprints of his articles; drafts, research notes, and copies of three of his books: Profile of a Precinct Committeeman (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.: Oceana Publications, 1968), The Indiana Third (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1970), and The Irish Judiciary (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Dame Press, 1971); transcripts of his lectures and speeches; grade books and course outlines; correspondence, reports, and minutes relating to his...

Scope and Content General correspondence files (1960-1990); lecture notes and student papers from courses on canon law taught by Boyle; correspondence and reports from his tenure as president (1964-1965) of the Canon Law Society of America; subject files (1965-1974) on canon law as it affects religious life; correspondence, minutes, memoranda, and financial reports (1974-1983) from Boyle's close association with Stewardship Services Inc. (La Salette Fathers) and the Religious Communities Trust; minutes and...

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Correspondence, voting records and fact sheets, proceedings, newspaper clippings, phonograph recordings, and other material relating to the Democratic Party and political life, principally between 1950-1960.

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Proceedings of national workshops for priests who served as spiritual moderators of the National Conference of Catholic Men (NCCM) and National Conference of Catholic Women (NCCW), 1949-1951; proceedings of regional priests' workshops on the Lay Apostolate, 1950-1951; correspondence and meeting material from priests' workshops on the lay apostolate, 1950-1951; and related correspondence and clippings, 1950-1955.

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Correspondence, 1864-1910, including letters from many bishops and correspondence with Eliza Allen Starr, John Gilmary Shea, Charles O'Conor, and James F. Edwards; clippings, 1880s-1910; research notes; manuscripts of his History of the Catholic Church in the United States; and biographical information on bishops.

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Handouts, programs, and related papers from workshops and retreats conducted by Richard J. Westley, 1968-2006; Westley's newsletter "In the Meantime" on a CD-ROM; and records of talks organized by Westley and given by Father Leo Mahon in Chicago concerning his work in San Miguelito Mission, Panama, liberation theology, and the Church after the Second Vatican Council.

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Correspondence, minutes, newsletters and articles concerning the Christian Family Movement and the National Peace Academy campaign initiated by Lucy and her husband Dan Lucey in 1966.

Scope and Content Scrapbook (1956-1989) of Mrs. Elizabeth Wukawitz, friend of Tom Dooley, which she sent to Father Hesburgh; consisting of letters from Tom Dooley to Mrs. Wukawitz and from Mrs. Wukawitz to Tom Dooley, draft of pages from "The Night They Burned the Mountain" transcribed from dictaphone recordings with corrections by Tom Dooley; clippings, photocopies of news articles, envelopes and mimeographed material. Also correspondence concerning his Congressional Medal of Honor (1959-1979),...

Scope and Content Correspondence, letters, books, ledgers, and docket book of Thomas Ewing; correspondence of his wife Maria (Boyle) Ewing; letters and papers of Philemon B. Ewing, his sisters, his wife, Maria Rebecca (Gillespie) Ewing, and members of her family: her sister Eliza Maria Gillespie (i.e., Mother Angela), her brother, Neal Gillespie, her mother, Madeline Miers Phelan, and her stepfather, William Phelan. Also Phelan estate papers, diaries, sermons by Father Neal Gillespie, correspondence and...

Scope and Content Correspondence, 1925-1957; writings, speech notes, and speeches by Mahony, 1920s-1950; diary of Mahony, 1928; Mahony's subject files on such topics as child labor, Mexican immigration, the sugar beet industry and labor conditions of sugar beet workers, 1920s-1950s, and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1920s; and photographs. The bulk of the material relates to Mahony's efforts on the part of Mexican migrant laborers, with some material on Mahony's early professional efforts....

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Records of college Young Christian Students, including correspondence; minutes of meetings, study workshops, study days, study weeks, and retreats; newsletters, reports, working documents, pamphlets, inquiry booklets and mimeographed circulars; also papers collected by Mary Good from her participation in Young Christian Workers.

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Correspondence, speeches, papers, programs, and newspaper clippings that pertain almost exclusively to the American Catholic Congress in Baltimore and the Columbian Catholic Congress in Chicago; microfilm of newspapers dealing with Catholic institutions of higher learning and Catholic popular history, the Columbian Catholic Congress, and a large Catholic parade in Baltimore in September of 1889.

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