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Catholic Action

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Alphabetical Pamphlet Collection

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Identifier: ALP
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...
Dates: 1878-1977

Arthur J. Quigley Papers

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Identifier: AJQ
Scope and Content

Files representing Quigley's association with the Christian Family Movement South Bend Federation, including files on CFM conventions at Notre Dame, 1950s; and University of Notre Dame Faculty Senate documents, 1967-1971, including a few manuscripts and annotations.

Dates: 1950s-1971

Burnett C. Bauer Papers

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Identifier: BCB
Scope and Content Papers documenting the history of the Christian Family Movement of which Bauer was a founder, dating chiefly 1940s-1990s; consisting of issues of CFM ACT, photocopies, minutes, meeting material, printed ephemera, and letters, including correspondence with Pat and Patty Crowley and others; also lecture notes, and newsletters (Christian Family Notes, 1948, and Christian Family Bulletin, 1949-1950) concerning Bauer's involvement in the founding and early activities of CFM; with CFM Inquiry...
Dates: 1947-1962.

CFM / YCW / YCS Coordinating Committee Records

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Identifier: CYC
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...
Dates: 1950-1968.

Chicago Conference of Laymen Records

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Identifier: CCL
Scope and Content

Minutes, memoranda, newsletters, clippings, and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1966-1968.

Christian Family Movement. Milwaukee Chapter Records

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Identifier: MLW
Scope and Content

Correspondence, minutes, reports, newsletters (1962-1968), notes taken by Bill and Mary Connolly, leaders of the chapter, and subject files on such topics as school integration, E. Michael McCann's 1968 Milwaukee County district attorney campaign, George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign, the John XXIII Community (1967), and the St. Martin de Porres Group (1963-1967).

Dates: [195-]-1972.

Christian Family Movement Records

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Identifier: CFM
Scope and Content Correspondence (1946-1969); files on CFM chaplains; correspondence, agenda, and minutes of the national coordinating committee (1949-1969); correspondence, minutes, and research material associated with the publication of the CFM monthly magazine Act, and copies of the magazine itself (1946-1971); newsletters of local CFM federations; programs, reports, financial records, evaluation forms and speeches, including speeches of Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand, from CFM national conventions; a...
Dates: 1946-2016

Council for the International Lay Apostolate Records

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Identifier: ILA
Scope and Contents Papers donated by William C. Moran dating from 1962, consisting of three documents and an unpublished diary concerning the Peruvian Project of the Council for the International Lay Apostolate (CILA) with entries by William C. Moran, Thomas J. Schlereth, P. Barry Baldwin, and Thomas Bishop; papers donated by Margaret Kelly Davenport dating from 1962, including a CILA membership card, an identification card from the Gran Mision de la Ciudad de Mexico, a flier for bull fights in Plaza Mexico,...
Dates: 1962-1967

Dennis Clark Papers

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Identifier: CRK
Scope and Content

Photocopy of Clark's diaries, 1948-1989; manuscripts of essays, bibliographies, articles, book reviews, proposals, clippings, and offprints; concerning Irish studies, urban history, labor, public housing, desegregation, and Catholic Action; with a few letters and memoranda, a register of the Clark Papers in the Balch Institute of Ethnic Studies, a television script, and an interview with Clark (1976).

Dates: 1948-[ongoing]

Donald Runkle Collection

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Identifier: RUN
Scope and Content

Files on Catholic Action, high school and college Young Christian Students, and related movements, including correspondence, study weeks, programs, pamphlets, mimeographed material, and bulletins; with publications of JOC (Young Christian) movements in France.

Dates: 1938-1965.

Drop File Collection

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Identifier: DRP
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,...
Dates: 1840-1979

Francis P. Cavanaugh Papers

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Identifier: FCV
Scope and Content

Sermons and speeches by Cavanaugh and a draft of a letter by Cavanaugh to Estes Kefauver on juvenile delinquency.

Dates: 1930s-1968.

General Collection

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Identifier: GEN
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,...
Dates: 1775-[ongoing]

Hugh S. Gallagher Papers

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Identifier: GAL
Scope and Content

Sermons, lectures, poetry, printed material, and manuscripts of articles by Gallagher and others; concerning scripture, sacraments, meditation, Catholic Action, and other religious topics, and Celtic languages, especially Gaelic (Irish). Also the manuscript of a short novel, James Gallagher.

Dates: 1895-1937.

John J. Berkery Papers

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Identifier: BRK
Scope and Content Correspondence; manuscripts of Berkery's memoirs of the Catholic Action movement; newsletters; clippings, including articles by and about Joseph Cardinal Cardijn; photocopies and mimeographed material including pieces by Pat Keegan and Paul McGuire. With the exception of one folder concerning St. Therese of Lisieux, the papers all pertain to the Young Christian Workers, Young Christian Students, Christian Family Movement, and other Catholic Action organizations. Also books,...
Dates: 1932-1988.

Marilyn K. Lukas Papers

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Identifier: MKL
Scope and Content

Papers (1960-1997) collected by Marilyn K. Lukas documenting the Lay Apostolate: Cardijn Associates, Young Christian Workers, Christian Family Movement, and the work of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand; 9 audio cassettes (mostly Cardijn Associates tapes, 1991-1997, including two by Fr. Steven Avella); and 10 CDs containing an audio recording of Msgr. Reynold Hillenbrand conducting a CFM retreat in the 1950s; and digital files containing newsletters published by Cardijn Associates.

Dates: 1950s-1997

Mary Irene Zotti Papers

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Identifier: ZOT
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1939-1987

National Federation of Catholic College Students, Mt. St. Vincent College Chapter, New York City Records

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Identifier: FCC
Scope and Content Minutes, financial reports, mail directories, clippings and policy resolutions of the national NFCCS (1940s-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, agenda, and press releases of NFCCS national congresses (1947-1967); minutes, reports, clippings, and correspondence of NFCCS- sponsored commissions including the Forensic Commission (1943-1959), Philosophy Commission (1955-1961), Literary Commission (1955-1966), Interracial Justice Commission (1944-1964), Confraternity of Christian Doctrine...
Dates: 1938-1967

Oral Histories Collection

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Identifier: ORL
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the University of Notre Dame Archives, including audio recordings and transcriptions of interviews on Catholic Action and Social Justice; the National Catholic Reporter; and Notre Dame faculty, staff, and students. Governed by agreements with the people interviewed, some of these are open for use and some closed or restricted.

Dates: 1972-2000

Patricia Fenelon Papers

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Identifier: FEN
Scope and Content Includes by-laws and minutes (1948) of the Catholic Action Club of the Sacred Heart School, Davenport, Iowa, (Fenelon was club secretary in the eighth grade); National Federation of Catholic College Students (NFCCS) Wisconsin chapter by-laws, 1954-1956, and NFCCS convention program 1956; a Scholastic article (January 1, 1975) on Fenelon; papers documenting the response of the Notre Dame community to the May 1970 American invasion of Cambodia and the student killings at Kent State University,...
Dates: 1940s-1980.

Philip J. Kenney Papers

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Identifier: PKN
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1949-1955

Reynold Hillenbrand Papers

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Identifier: MRH
Scope and Content Account books, agenda, bibliographies, book orders, brochures, bulletins, calendars, chaplains' manuals, circulars, clippings, compositions, contracts, correspondence, curricula vitae, drafts of booklets, drafts of manuals, essays, examinations, financial papers, interviews, itineraries, lectures, lists, liturgical music, maps, meditations, memoranda, mimeographed handouts, minutes, newsletters, notebooks, notes, outlines, pamphlets, poems, policy manuals, prayers of the faithful,...
Dates: 1897-1979

Robert Emmet Lucey Papers

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Identifier: LUC
Scope and Content Correspondence concerning the Vietnam War, Lucey's trip to South Vietnam as an observer of the 1967 election, his friendship with Lyndon Johnson, his participation in the Second Vatican Council, the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, civil rights, Latin America, and the plight of the migrant farm worker; records relating to the archbishop's residence in San Antonio; sermons, invitations, programs, clippings and memorabilia from anniversary celebrations; and records of the Bishops' Committee for...
Dates: 1942-1970.

Rose Marciano Lucey Papers

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Identifier: LCY
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1966-1985

Thomas J. Darby Scrapbooks

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Identifier: DAR
Scope and Content

Two scrapbooks compiled by Darby containing clippings and a few letters concerning the Labor School in New Rochelle.

Dates: 1941-1971.

William and Mary Good Papers

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Identifier: WMG
Scope and Content

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.

Dates: 1950s-1990s.

Young Christian Students Records

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Identifier: YCS
Scope and Content Correspondence (1958-1965); reports from local leaders (1960-1965); records of national committee meetings (1956-1964); records of summer training sessions and national and regional study weeks (1944-1966); files on recruitment, training, and activities of full-time YCS workers (1947-1967); records of staff meetings at national headquarters (1957-1965); financial files, subject files, research files, photographs, reports, programs, bulletins, handbooks, and other publications; with...
Dates: 1944-1980

Young Christian Workers Records

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Identifier: YCW
Scope and Content Correspondence of national headquarters with local YCW groups all over the United States; subject files, training courses, answers to survey questionnaires, financial records, reports, inquiry programs, manuals, mimeographed material, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs, and papers of national chaplain Monsignor Reynold Hillenbrand and Caroline Pezzullo, president of the women's YCW, 1949-1953; with material on civil rights, credit unions, labor unions, Catholic Action, and the international...
Dates: 1938-1971