Seminarians' Catholic Action Collection, 1943-1950, bulk 1945-1948.

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Seminarians' Catholic Action Collection, 1943-1950, bulk 1945-1948.

Personal papers of Msgr. Reese relating to the Seminarians' Catholic Action Movement, which he helped to organize and lead while a student at the Theological College at Catholic University. Correspondence, manuscripts, publications, and reports document the activities of study groups at the Theological College and other seminaries, and the gatherings held at the University of Notre Dame in 1946 and in Montreal in 1947. Also included are minutes of meetings of a Young Christian Workers "cell" in Wilmington, Delaware, 1946-1948.

1.6 cubic ft.

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Young Christian Workers

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An organization of the Catholic lay apostolate for young working people; it had parallel organnizations for men and women, a national headquarters, and local groups of leaders who would meet to read scripture, discuss and judge what they had observed in the workplace or neighborhood, and decide how to act to make their community more Christian, according to the teachings of papal encyclicals urging Catholic social action. From the description of Records, 1938-1971. (University of Not...

Reese, Thomas J., 1921-1988.

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