January - October Notices of meetings of Hierarchy with some minutes. Includes information on the use of the vernacular in the Liturgy, education and proposed changes to the Marriage Act. Notices from Standing Committee including agendas and correspondence mainly relating to education and dispensation from abstinence on New Year’s Day. Finances of Maynooth College discussed by Maynooth Trustees as well as the formation of priests, declining number of new vocations, pastoral relevance of the liturgy, applications for various teaching positions and the centenary celebrations of the Nicholas Callan Society. Addenda - reference to Constitution on the Liturgy. Mention of the proposed establishment of an Irish Theological Association and Hierarchy University Fund. 1965

Invitations to +McQuaid from the Charge D’Affaires for Malaysia to Receptions to celebrate Malaysia Day.

Press release from +McQuaid with regard to the day of prayer, fasting and offerings for Pakistan on 10th October. There will be some hours of adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in all churches after the last Mass on the 10th. The rosary can be offered for this intention during the month of October. Friday 15th is suggested as a Fast Day and any offerings can be left at Archbishop’s House and these will be transferred to the Hierarchy of Pakistan. (One handwritten and one typescript).

Handwritten minutes of ‘V’ Committee meeting. John Galhen, Secretary, British Communist Party, was invited to speak at the Trinity debate but was unable to attend. He was replaced by Bill Garritt. Shirley Armstrong and Sal Duffy elected to the new Fencing Committee. The group frequently goes abroad, including to Iron Curtain countries. Worth watching them. Sean O’Rourke, Lily O’Rourke and Geoffrey Palmer visited Moscow for the May Day Parade. Cutting taken from The Irish Times, 3 May.

Letter from Fr. P. O’Keeffe to +McQuaid seeking permission to have Mass at midnight on Christmas Day in the Oratory at Howth Castle.

The L.D.F. want to hold a Field Day in Swords.

Handwritten report saying that Sam Nolan and Deasy are going to seminar in Czechoslovakia. Selected by IWL at the request of the British Communist Party. Their subject is: ‘The Relationship between the Church and Trade Unions’. O’Riordan was in Moscow for May Day. Wonders what Eamon Byrne is doing here. Is he trying to start a branch of Connolly Association?

Letter from +McGeough to +McQuaid thanking him for the ‘…marvellous Symposium which you organized for 1st January on the occasion of the World Day of Peace’. A report has been sent to the Holy Father.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from M.J. O’Neill, Works Manager, informing him that the men would like to have the Mass celebrated in one of the Workshops on New Year’s Day, 1951, in thanksgiving for their safety and welfare during the year.

Typed letter to +McQuaid from the Taoiseach, Sean F. Lemass. The President is to visit the Holy Father on St. Patrick’s Day. The text of a statement is enclosed.