Holograph copy letter from +McQuaid to +Alibrandi regarding the invitation from the Institute of Theology and Philosophy at Milltown Park, to attend the ceremony of presentation of the commemoration volume ‘Irish Anglicanism 1869-1969’. He has refused the invitation.

Letter from +Alibrandi to +McQuaid stating he has received an invitation from the Institute of Theology and Philosophy at Milltown Park, to attend the ceremony of presentation of the commemoration volume ‘Irish Anglicanism 1869-1969’. He does not personally favour attending the event but would appreciate the Archbishop’s opinion. Annotation from +McQuaid states ‘I could not consider it advisable in our circumstances’.

File relating to Milltown National School.

Letter from Fr. Timothy B. Condon to +McQuaid regards the opening of the Parochial Hall, ‘The Marian Hall’, in Milltown. 1 item

Letter from Fr. Devane, S.J., Milltown Park to +McQuaid regarding the issue of censorship. He encloses Proposals for a censorship code in Ireland.

Letters relating to issues with Fr. Laurence Stafford and the supply of priests from Milltown Park to assist with saying Masses.

-3 Letter and memorandum from Dr. Michael O’Connell to March 1970 Fr. James Ardle MacMahon regarding the Milltown Park Lecture series.

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

Letter from Dermot O’Flynn, Milltown to +McQuaid regarding advertisements in the Reader’s Digest that have been removed. Annotated by +McQuaid.

Correspondence regarding the theological training of Richard Murtagh, aged 78, and his forthcoming ordination at Milltown. Plymouth