Letter from +Collier to Dr O’Connell. He writes and encloses a copy of his criticisms and suggestions regarding the draft catechism and mentions the recent trip to Rome for the declaration of the Dogma of the Assumption.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Kavanagh stating that the Hierarchy have agreed to permit the use of the new Irish catechism by the New Zealand hierarchy. Typescript copy.

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +Kavanagh stating that the Hierarchy have agreed to permit the use of the new Irish catechism by the New Zealand hierarchy. Handwritten copy. 1 item

Letter from +Doorly to +McQuaid thanking him for the copy of the draft catechism.

Letter from +McNamee to +McQuaid thanking him for the copy of the draft catechism. 1 item

Letter from +McNamee to +McQuaid thanking him for a copy of the draft catechism. 1 item

• 11 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the teaching of the catechism, the Catholic Information Bureau and the need for a conference of convent primary schools. Finances and the state of buildings at Maynooth College discussed by the Maynooth Trustees. Also Irish Colleges Paris and Salamanca. 1950

Letter from +Roche to +McQuaid thanking him for the copy of the draft catechism.

Letter from Fr. Joseph Purfield to +McQuaid regarding the new catechism.

• 28 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the Health Act 1953, the Department of Philosophy, Dublin, new programme in catechism for primary schools, closure of dance halls at midnight, insurance policies for schools, Adoption Act 1952, banned literature, emigrant Irish girls in England, the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Catholic Women’s League, Catholic Information Bureau and the Catholic Boy Scouts. Finances of Maynooth College and applications for faculty positions discussed. 1954