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A report providing a structural, financial, and demographic overview of the Catholic Ukiah Mission and surrounding out-stations. The document outlines the territorial boundaries and pastoral history of the mission under the administration of the Capuchin friars, listing its active churches and dependencies across regional stations like Hopland, Willits, and Covelo. Additionally, it details the mission’s financial standing – accounting for itemized receipts, expenditures, and bank balances – and compiles the exact census data and sacramental figures (baptisms, marriages, and conversions).

Bishop Edward Thomas O’Dwyer, ‘Pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of the diocese of Limerick, for Quinquagesima Sunday, 1917’ ([Limerick], 1917).

A Christmas pastoral letter and fundraising appeal issued by Fr. Raphael Quinn OFM Cap. and Fr. Urban Riordan OFM Cap. from the Catholic Rectory in Ukiah, California. Writing on behalf of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, the priests extend Christmas blessings to parishioners and request generous financial offerings to alleviate the church’s heavy building debt and meet its large current operating expenses. Includes a schedule of Masses on Christmas Day for the local region, including Midnight and morning services at the Ukiah parish church and the Convent Chapel. It also lists morning Low Masses at neighbouring regional missions: St. Brigid’s Church in Calpella and St. Joseph’s Church in Talmage.

A pastoral circular, titled ‘Notes for the Reverend Clergy’, issued by Bishop Joseph F. McGrath of the Diocese of Baker City. It outlines ten mandatory directives for parish priests, establishing the calendar and liturgical instructions for Lenten regulations, daily Gospel readings, and specific prayers like the Prayer to St. Joseph. The document also dictates the quotas for various ‘Diocesan Collections’ — such as the Three in One collection, Bishops’ War Relief Fund, and the Clergy Relief Fund — and lists the exact assessment amounts assigned to specific local towns and missions.

A clipping of a review of ‘Angelic Shepherd’ published in the ‘Irish Catholic’ (18 May 1950).

Passport of Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. issued by the British Foreign Office. Fr. Dominic’s age is given as 36, his profession as a Roman Catholic Clergyman and is defined as a ‘British-born subject’. With half-length portrait photograph pasted into document. The ink stamps on the passport indicate that Fr. Dominic travelled through France and Belgium in 1919.