Records, 1946-1971.

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Records, 1946-1971.

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 series of files concerning crises of the CFM in the 1960s, including civil rights, finances, and problems with the National Catholic Welfare Conference; surveys, dissertations, and articles on the CFM; files on interaction with related groups; books, scrapbooks, and tape recordings. Correspondents include Pat and Patty Crowley, Ray and Dorothy Muldoon, and other lay leaders of CFM; priests such as John J. Cavanaugh, CSC, Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, and John L. Thomas, SJ; and prelates such as John Cardinal O'Hara and Martin D. McNamara.

854 audio tapes.3 linear feet of printed material.

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Hesburgh, Theodore Martin, 1917-....

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Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; executive vice-president (1949-1952) and president (1952-1987) of the University of Notre Dame; member (1957-1972) and chairman (1969-1972) of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. From the description of Papers, 1941-[ongoing]. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 25419997 Priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross who was awarded the St. Edward's University's Quest Medal in 1975. Among his many significant jobs and...

Crowley, Patricia Caron, 1913-

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Muldoon, Dorothy.

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McNamara, Martin D. 1898-

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Thomas, John L. (John Lawrence), 1910-

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Muldoon, Raymond

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Crowley, Patrick F., 1911-1974

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O'Hara, John F. 1888-1960.

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Cavanaugh, John J. 1899-1979)

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Christian Family Movement

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A national, and later international, movement of the specialized lay apostolate of the Catholic Church inspired by the social principles of papal encyclicals and related to the European Jocist movement founded by Canon Joseph Cardijn. Membership consisted of married couples who would meet in local Catholic Action inquiry groups to read scripture, observe their community, judge how it fell short of the Christian ideal, and act to improve it. From the descripti...