Preparation for first session including correspondence% Nunciature re attendance & also Bishop Dunne, first schemata. Cardinal Cicognani referring to Council procedures% Cardinal Michael Browne re meeting on subject of membership of the church% Letter to priests of diocese% Fr. Michael O’Connell on first schemata.

Correspondence relating to routine details of community life and apostolate. Manresa College chapel and its architect, Andy Devane are mentioned. Letter from Fr. Ryan on extinct Irish dioceses and he repudiates the widely diffused idea of bishops being subject to abbots in the early Irish church. One Jesuit attempts to become a hermit. The Jesuits also seek to undertake home visitation in an area of the Pro- Cathedral parish which is criticised by Msgr. Cecil Barret, Vicar General. Information on Archbishop’s friendship with Fr. O’Connell, S.J., Vatican Observatory.

Note from Fr. Thackaberry to Fr. O’Connell regarding the presentation to Fr. Kelly.

Handwritten letter from Msgr. John O’Regan, Collin’s Barracks, to Dr. O’Connell informing him that Mrs Fitzgerald, Limerick City Sanatorium, has been selected as an invalid for this year’s Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. 46.1 Typed address of +AB on occasion of invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Patroness of the Defence Forces.

Note from Richard MacNevin to Dr. O’Connell enclosing a rough draft of the proposed invitation card to An Tostal Mass, 1954.

Letter from Dr. Michael O’Connell, Rathmines to Fr. James Ardle MacMahon regarding a lecture on the Holy Land to be given by Captain Costelloe for the Missionary Sisters of St. Columban.

Letter from Dr. Michael O’Connell, Rathmines to Fr. James Ardle MacMahon regarding submissions from the Oblates and also thanking him for naming Frs. Greehy and Curtin to deal with issues on moral and scriptural talks.

-1 March Correspondence between +McQuaid, Fr. Gallen, Fr. John Kelly, Fr. John O’Connell, Fr. Patrick Leahy, +W. Philbin, Belfast, +Michael Browne, Galway regarding the papers of the 1968 Maynooth Summer School which are to be published by M.H. Gill. However, Fr. J. Coveney, S.J., Heythorp College has now published one article in the ‘Furrow’ entitled ‘The presence of Christ’. Annotations by +McQuaid. Front Page Detective 1969

Correspondence between Dr. Michael O’Connell, +McQuaid and Fr. James Ardle MacMahon regarding the Montserrat Grases Bulletin. It is published in Manchester and has the Imprimatur of Westminster. The group have a sought a similar Imprimatur from Dublin. Annotation by +McQuaid states the permission can be given but ‘with careful consideration’. Reader’s Digest

Letter from Dr. Michael O’Connell to +McQuaid regarding a series of articles on non Catholic bodies which were printed by ‘Reality’ and written by Xavier Carthy. He had many difficulties with the ‘tone and tenor’ of the articles and had frequent discussion with the then editor, Fr. O’Connor. Fr. Jones is now in charge and he is more ‘trustworthy and prudent’. The articles are now being re-printed in the ‘Irish Digest’.