Includes; document entitled "Constitutions - a challenge", reference to a "… desire and willingness to obey the voice of the Second Vatican Council …" and its calls for renewal of the Church, list of difficulties involved in renewing the Constitutions, list of "... essential elements of good Constitutions."; copy of document from the "Sacra Congregatio Pro Religiosis Et Institutis Saecularibus" entitled "Acts of Chapters of Religious Congregations".
Includes; reference to Vatican II and its call for congregations to re-examine their way of living and update and renew their religious life and the challenges this had set for the Presentation.
Includes; reference to a visit to the Presentation convents in St. John's Newfoundland Canada, reference to the Union of Presentation Convents in accordance with "… Art[icle] 22 of Perfectae Caritatis which has been accepted by all bishops except four.", reference to a need for congregations to modernise in order to attract new vocations.
"A list of questions to which replies are to be given by Religious Congregations, in the Report they are bound to send t the Holy See every five years …".
"Relationships between religious orders and the hierarchy in Australia"; "Foundations of Australian Congregations of Religious Women"; "Congregations of Religious Women in Australia".
Includes; transcript of talk given on the difficulties of the implementation of the "Divine Office " into religious congregations (Benedictine monk Dom Paul McDonnell).
Includes; article written by unnamed person stating the importance of community living for religious congregations.
Includes; article written by Father Edward L. Heston C.S.C on the history of "Temporary Vows" for religious congregations and the importance of them in congregational affairs.
transcript of lecture by Jesuit priest, Father Walshe, on the importance of silence in religious congregations
an academic paper written about the importance of archives of religious congregations to understanding the history of Ireland outside of official government narrative.