File 1 - Diocesan amalgamation

11pp, 1 envelope

Correspondence and documentation regarding the issue of diocesan amalgamation. Includes:
 Regulations of Maynooth Synod that relate to nuns.
 A copy of a reply letter to a community of the Presentation from N.N. which discusses that there is no mention of “Amalgamation, Federation, Branch Houses or General Noviceship” in the Apostolic Brief or the Rules and Constitutions, 1908.
 A handwritten document titled “Confidential” which discusses diocesan amalgamation stating “To us Diocesan Amalgamation is unthinkable”, no date.
 Two handwritten documents discussing suggestions for the Presentation Convents such as the freedom to select their own subjects. The documents also mention diocesan amalgamation and that it “would mean failure”.
 A reply from the Sacred Congregation of Religious, Rome granting permission for novices of two independent communities of Presentation Sisters in the Diocese to make their novitiate in one or other of the Houses of the Presentation Sisters in said Diocese, 21 Feb 1968.