Catholic Church. National Conference of Catholic Bishops

Scope and Content Correspondence, proposals, reports, surveys, mailings, ledgers, salary schedules, calendars, press releases, agenda, minutes, case studies, constitutions, contracts, retirement plans, fund-raising papers, invoices, receipts, tax returns, newsletters, and photographs; concerning diocesan and religious priests, priestly training, pastoral development, Jewish oppression, anti-Semitism, concern for the poor, abortion, battered children, black clergy, busing, celibacy, canon law, research and...

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...

Scope and Content Correspondence of CMSM presidents, executive directors, executive comittee, and other committees; memoranda and reports from regional meetings and yearly general assemblies; an evaluation study of CMSM and records of the work of the CMSM Structures Task Force in response to the study; a copy of the book Who are my brothers? (1988) with related drafts, galleys, and correspondence; byproducts of a CMSM video, Brother is a Verb; microfilm of Joseph A. Varacalli's The American Catholic call for...

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Material related to the development of projects such as the United States bishops' Women's Pastoral, the reactions of bishops and others, and correspondence reflecting the climate and the work of the last quarter of the 20th century; consisting of papers, speeches, diaries, printed material, photographs, and news articles.

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Records of Bishop Fulcher's service as a member of National Conference of Catholic Bishops in deliberations over the text of The Challenge of Peace , the Bishops' pastoral letter on war and peace (1983); consisting of drafts, bishops' responses, criticism from experts, files of pertinent articles (printed or mimeographed), and reactions from the Vatican and from scientists.

Scope and Content Schemata, quaestiones, modi, relationes, animadversiones, texti emendati, texti recogniti, votae, normae, disquisitii, allocutiones, observations, reports, liturgies, correspondence, circular letters, newsletters, notes, lists, agenda, minutes, and other documents, most of them in Latin, from the Second Vatican Council (1962- 1965), Roman synods (1967-1985), consistories of cardinals (1969-1985), and meetings of Vatican congregations, secretariats, and commissions (1962-1987); Records...

Scope and Content Digitized papers of John R. Quinn, with files on the Pontifical Commission on Religious, "Essential Elements of the Church's Teaching on Religious Life," the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United States Catholic Conference, the California Catholic Conference, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and our Response," the Papal Visit (1987), bishops' meetings in Rome, his Oxford lecture, the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious,...

Scope and Content Records, 1956-[ongoing], of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), including correspondence (1958-1983); meeting material from the national board and executive committee (1962-1979); papers from the group's national assembly (1961-1983); extensive subject files (1957-1984); correspondence and minutes (1964-1979) relating to joint committees of LCWR and the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the United States Catholic...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, minutes, talks, and photographs; papers generated by his work as a member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference and through his involvement in many social action groups, including Pax Christi USA and Bread for the World; with material on the Michigan Catholic Conference, the war in Vietnam, the Detroit Archdiocesan Synod of 1969, and the United States Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace, The Challenge of Peace: God's...