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 Cardinal MacRory to +McQuaid regarding a draft catechism. 1 item

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.

• 12 October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on a draft catechism, religious knowledge programmes in schools, finances at Maynooth College, salaries of teachers, Irish Girl Guides and the work of the Maynooth Trustees. 1949

• 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 +Browne to +McQuaid thanking him for copies of the galley proofs of the new catechism. He also discusses the Mother & Child scheme and mentions the Bishop of Limerick is very pessimistic.

Letter from +Levame to +McQuaid thanking him for the new catechism which has been sanctioned by the Irish Hierarchy. This will be transmitted to the Holy Father.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Sinead de Valera. It was a joy to receive the Pastoral Letter and the Irish Catechism.

Letter from John Kelly to +McQuaid returning the Draft for a new catechism with some observations.

Correspondence regarding courses of lecturers - a course for Religious Sisters began with the approval of the Archbishop notwithstanding a similar course at Eccles Street Dominican Convent. The Archbishop regards public nature of a lecture on ‘clerical celibacy’ a serious mistake. Reverberations of controversy over Dutch catechism. Msgr. Boylan’s unease over a proposed lecture (text included). Also a translation of an article by Fr. Karl Rahner, S.J. Reply of Archbishop to a letter from Cardinal Willebrands (see file on Fr. Michael Hurley, S.J.). The Archbishop does not object to a public lecture by Fr. Rahner.