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Correspondence regarding sodalities under the direction of the Jesuits. Pioneer Total Abstinence Association

File relating to parish schools.

Invitation cards to +McQuaid and the Rev. Secretary, from the Japanese Ambassador and Japanese Charge d’Affaires to attend Japanese films and receptions.

Letter from +Sensi to +McQuaid thanking him for the cheque for £200 as tax due to the Apostolic Datary on appointments of priests to Aughrim Street parish and Clondalkin.

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

Typed letter to +McQuaid from Dr. H. von Tritzschler informing him that a Memorial Mass for the late Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will take place on 25 April in the church in Donnybrook.

Letter from +McCormack to +McQuaid. He discusses a proposed union of Loreto communities and seeks the consent of +McQuaid. 1item

Copy of letter from +McQuaid to +McCormack. He would welcome a union of Navan and Mullingar with the Loreto in Rathfarnam and thinks such a union would be a success. He draws parallels between this situation and a successful union between Athy Mercy and Carysfort. He will send on the relevant documents when he finds them.

Correspondence involving Fr. Dunne, Sr. M. Bernard, Sr. Josephine Dodd, L.E. O’Carroll, Sr. Patricia relating to the appointment of a Domestic Economy teacher at the Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Crumlin. The Sisters wish to appoint one of their own Sisters to the position, but the Vocational Education Committee of the City of Dublin wish to appoint one of their instructors in order to maintain control of an area which they see as rightfully theirs. +McQuaid sees the implications of this principle, in regard to the status of Religious men and women, as grave. He sought a statement outlining the reasons for these principles. The matter was settled amicably.

• Correspondence between Peter E. Kilroy, Editor, The 4 October 1961 Standard, the Secretary, Archbishop’s House & Mgr. Storero in relation to a cheque for £130 for the relief of starving children in the Congo.