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

Copy letter from +McQuaid to +McGeough thanking him for his note regarding the Dutch catechism.

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.