Correspondence involving Archbishops, Cardinals. Bishops, and others on the activities of Fr. Michael Hurley, S.J. in the field of ecumenism. The Archbishop requests the Provincial to ensure Fr. Hurley will give no public lectures in the diocese, to which the Provincial replies ‘We are doing our best’. The Archbishop expresses to Cardinal Cicognani, Secretary of State, his sense of anxiety at Fr. Hurley being chosen by the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity as a member of its delegation to a Methodist meeting in Stockholm. He does not command confidence as an exponent of Catholic doctrine according to McQuaid. The text of a laudatory lecture by Fr. Hurley on the Apostle Jesuit G. Tyrrell enclosed. Also a School of Ecumenics is proposed for Milltown. On advice from McQuaid, Cardinal Willebrands of Rome Secretariat declines to be a patron. Also enclosed are the papers relating to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin’s co-operation in launch of a book by Fr. Hurley, S.J. in 2008. Legionaries of Christ

Copy of typed letter to Desmond O’Malley, Minister for Justice, from +McQuaid informing him that Fr. G. Slattery is to go abroad for further studies and proposed Fr. R. Field as his successor.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Raymond Field. Feels that the new school in the Institution could be used for religious formation in the lives of the boys.

Handwritten letter to +McQuaid from Raymond Field. He has subscribed to a letter to the Irish Times, 10th February, as Chaplain to St. Patrick’s Institution, in response to incorrect and unfair articles. Now realizes that his handling of the situation was imprudent and should have sought his permission. Apologises to the Archbishop for any embarrassment caused.

Letter from +O’Hara to Cardinal D’Alton regarding the International Congress of Catholic Doctors which is to be held in Dublin in June. The Holy See is anxious that this be an opportunity for proclaiming Catholic teaching in the field of medicine.

Copy of typed letter to Fr. Murray from Seamus O Cathail, Dept. of Education. Mr. Henry Saltzman, Executive Director of the Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague, visited the Department about last Easter. The Foundation’s interest lies in the field of education as it relates to the development of the intellectual potential of children and youth from disadvantaged milieus. Mr. Saltzman intimated that the Foundation would be prepared to consider proposals from this country. The Department asked a small committee to formulate a suitable project in relation to children between the ages of 3 and 8 years resident in the area served by Ruthland St. National Schools, for submission to the Foundation. The project was accepted by the Department and sent to the Foundation in May. Fr. Murray invited to accept in principle the managership of the Project School.

File on parish property including mention of trustees, purchase of parochial house, 125 & 138 St. Lawrence’s Road, 8 & 119 The Stiles Road and Donnelly’s Field and Murray’s Paddock.

Letter from Richard Ryan, solicitor to Dr. O’Connell relating to a field owned by Mr. Dalgety at Leixlip.

Typed ‘memo’ regarding the replacement of Fr. Raymond Field at Whitehall Technical School.

• 19 December 1946 Letters from Fr. MacMahon to +McQuaid saying he had a meeting with Fr. Kennedy S.J., regarding the purchase of a corner of the Sports’ Field at Baggot Road.