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Alumni: Sacred Congregation of Religious to Superiors General of Clerical Institutes. An Instruction On the clerical and religious training of Alumni destined for the Priesthood; and on the Inquiry to be made before the Reception of Orders.

Reports, memoranda, and questionnaires collected and compiled by Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., secretary of the Association of the Members of the Episcopal Conference in Eastern Africa (AMECEA) principally about priestly formation in the constituent countries of Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda and Zambia. The file includes the following documentation:
• Record of the Inter-territorial Episcopal Meeting held at St. Joseph’s, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, 17-26 July 1961. Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. was the recording secretary.
• AMECEA: A review of the first seven years.
• Extracts from the address by President Julius Nyerere to the Maryknoll Sisters’ General Chapter, New York. 16 Oct. 1970.
• Memorandum on the financial support of local African Ordinaries. 23 Apr. 1971.
• ‘Vocations to the Priesthood, Brotherhood, and Sisterhood in Zambia. 1970. Some factors and considerations’ by R.E.S. Tanner.
• Discussion document on the future of missionary societies by Fr. J. Glynn MM.
• Tanzania Church Inquiry. Memorandum on the pastoral position of the Catholic Church in Tanzania.
• Memorandum of the Association of Religious superiors in Eastern Africa.
• ‘The Church serving Developing Countries’. Extracts by AMECEA from a report sent to a seminar in Rome organised by a group of religious institutes active in missionary work. 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Opening address by Archbishop Sergio Pignedoli (1910-1980), Secretary of the Congregation for Evangelization, to the ‘Serving Developing Countries’ Seminar in Rome, 15-17 Mar. 1968.
• Agenda and position papers at the plenary meeting of the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, Rome, 25-28 June 1968. Distributed by AMECEA.
• Prospectus of the Pastoral Institute of Eastern Africa in Kampala, Uganda (1969).
• Record of the AMECEA Study Conference held at the St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Nairobi, Kenya, 14-21 Dec. 1973.

Early American Passionists: - The Passionists Sketches Historical and Personal by Rev. Felix Ward, C.P. This is mainly a history of the Passionists in America, but it also contains thumb-nail sketches of other prominent Passionists.

Drafts of an article by Kathleen MacKenna Napoli (1897-1988) titled ‘Among the Nations of the Earth / Revolutionary Recollections’. The drafts represent a personal memoir of the revolutionary period. The chapter headings include sections describing the ‘Irish Bulletin story’, the ‘Treaty negotiations’ and the ‘Irish Civil War’.

The account (compiled by Fr. Aloysius Travers OFM Cap.) begins with Fr. Dominic’s appointment as civic chaplain to Tomas MacCurtain and later to Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayors of Cork. The account includes copy correspondence regarding Fr. Dominic’s trial and copy extracts from newspapers ('Irish Independent', 'Evening Herald' and 'Catholic Herald') referring to the case and requests for the immediate release of the Capuchin priest. Reference is also made to the harsh treatment endured by Fr. Dominic during his captivity.