Catholic Peace Fellowship Records
Catholic Peace Fellowship Records
1962-[ongoing]
Origination : Catholic Peace Fellowship
Extent : 20 linear feet. 2 linear inches of photographs. 2 linear feet of printed material.
Repository : University of Notre Dame Archives
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Preferred Citation
Catholic Peace Fellowship Records (CPF),
University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Scope and Content
Manuscripts of talks and articles, organizational material for protest
activities, newspaper and magazine clippings, press statements,
photographs, and letters, including correspondence with Daniel and
Philip Berrigan, Thomas Merton, James Forest, Dorothy Day, Thomas
Cornell, George McGovern, and Robert F. Kennedy.
Background
Roman Catholic affiliate of the Fellowship of Reconcilation, committed
to a vision of Christian peace through non-violent activity.
Index :
Berrigan, Daniel.
Berrigan, Philip.
Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968.
Forest, James H.
Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980.
Cornell, Thomas C. (Thomas Charles), 1934-
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922-
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Catholic Peace Fellowship.
Nonviolence.
Pacifism.
Peace.
Pacifists.
CCPF Catholic Peace Fellowship: Manuscripts
- CCPF 1 Group : Box 1: Subject Files: Africa - Caritos
- CCPF 1/01 Folder : Africa, 1965-68- Material includes: correspondence with and press statement concerning the Committee of Conscience Against Aparthied, 1966; list of U.S. corporations with investments in South Africa; Students for a Democratic Society study on "American Investment in South Africa: A Web of Power"; newsclippings. [Articles from LIFE, WORLDVIEW, NEWSWEEK, AFRICA TODAY, MOTIVE, AVE MARIA, JUBILEE, COMMONWEAL, removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/02 Folder : American Bishops, 1965-68. Material includes: correspondence of various bishops primarily concerning the Vietnam War.
- CCPF 1/03 Folder : ACC [American Clergymen's Committee], 1968. Material includes: xerox copies of ACC correspondence and general mailings; statement of purpose and support of ACC for Vietnamese War Relief with transcript of ACC meeting with Margaret Schwartz of the Treasure Department. Principle correspondents include: Margaret Schwartz, James Forest, Edwin Dahlberg, Robert Hovda.
- CCPF 1/04 Folder : AFSC [American Friends Service Committee], 1965-73. Material includes: correspondence of the AFSC (a Quaker service agency to provide opportunity for religious c.o.'s to render alternative service to and to encourage peaceful solutions to conflice) primarily concerning a proposed audience with the Pope, the Indochina summer program, and blockades of arms to Indochina; article reprints. Principle correspondents include: Thomas Cornell, Steward Meacham. [Pamphlets on Indochina and world peace programs sponsored by AFSC removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/05 Folder : American Friends Service Committee, 1973-74. Material includes: "Legislative Update," March 8, 1974; form letter re: National Action/Research on the Military Industrial Complex post war slide show in conjunction with plans to increase arms aid to Saigon; flyers and press releases on involvement in Vietnam; NEW YORK TIMES and WASHINGTON POST reprints distributed by AFSC; draft of handbook to cut aid to Thieu and Lon Nol governments and to contribute to the implementation of the Peace Agreement. [Indochina Program Newsletter, "The U.S.A.-Indochina," February-March, 1974, removed to printed material collection. See also Box 5, folder 1 - NARMIC.]
- CCPF 1/06 Folder : Appleseed, 1970. Material includes: Draft Appleseed Descriptive, ("a collective of pacifist groups in the New York City area");draft of informational mailing with initial mailing list; memo regarding book service; "Why Peace Movement Should do a Program on Housing Runaway Children"; typed booklet of Appleseed activities including "Volunteers for Peace" information, 1970.
- CCPF 1/07 Folder : Bail-Out, [1971-72]. Material includes: one example of Bail-Out newsletter; fact sheed of the Joaquin Rodrigues Defense Committee; one letter from Steve Kurzyna as chairman of Bail-Out, a prisoner awareness organization.
- CCPF 1/08 Folder : Banks, Arthur Burghardt - Defense Committee [1973-74]. Material includes: information and materials concerning the case of Arthur Burghardt Banks sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary as a conscientious objector. ["Danbury: Anatomy of a Prison Strike," John Bach, Mitchell Snyding; reprint from TIME, Feb. 26, 1973, Vol. 101, No. 9 - Protest "They are Killing Me" (about Arthur Burghardt Banks); one copy of "Fortune News" Jan. 1974 featuring an article on Arthur Burghardt Banks, removed to printed. Material collection.]
- CCPF 1/09 Folder : Begegnung, 1964-65. Material includes: three letters and one postcard concerning BEGEGNUNG, a Catholic magazine of the GDR interested in peace and social progress.
- CCPF 1/10 Folder : Berlin Crisis, 1961-63. Material includes: mimeographed copies of mailings, proposals and discussions with Martin J. Hillenbrand re: Berlin Crisis; report of Conference on Berlin, 1962; comments on [John F.] Kennedy's speech of July 25, 1961; one newspaper clipping. [Printed material on Berlin Crisis, SANE USA, July-Aug. 1961, removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/11 Folder : Book File, March 3, 1966. Material includes: one letter from marge Hughes to Tom [Cornell] and Jim [Forest] concerning her book.
- CCPF 1/12 Folder : Bronx-Westchester Group [CPF], 1967. Material includes: one letter Jim Kearney to Jim [Forest] concerning SEVENTEEN panel, new CPF Bronx group, Pete Seeger Concert; questionnaire for new CPF group; one form letter.
- CCPF 1/13 Folder : Buddhist Monk Fast - Background Information, 1974. Material deals with and includes: news releases from Thomas Merton Life Center and CPF; mailings of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation (Paris); Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) memos; International Committee to Free South Vietnamese Political Prisoners from Detention; Torture and Death mailing, March 1974; letters concerning the Buddhist Monk fast from George McGovern, Andrew Young, A. William Ofenlock, and Thomas Merton Life Center; clarification on the FOR story about the arrest of Buddhist Monks; declaration of the Episcopal Conference of Vietnam. [Two copies of INDOCHINA FOCAL POINT, March 1-15, March 16- 31; "Imprisonment and Torture in South Vietnam," Pham Tam; NCR reprint May 11, 1973-"Bishop reports on South Vietnam visit" (Thomas Gumbleton); International Fellowship of Reconciliation-Report, No. 3 March 1974, removed to printed. Material collection.]
- CCPF 1/14 Folder : Buddhists (Vietnamese) 1972-74. Material includes: the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation letters from Thieu Phap Lan to the Unified Buddhist Church; mailings of the Vietnamese Buddhist Peace Delegation to Paris; International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam re: School of Youth for Social Service; xerox of photographs [Vietnam?]; mailing of FOR re: a shift within the Saigon government from harassment to extreme repression of the Buddhist peace movement; copies of Le Lotus-bulletin of the Unified Buddhist Church; "Demonstration Witnessed by Quaker Representative," Paul Quinn. [All printed material removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/15 Folder : The BULLETIN - December 1967. Material includes: purchase form for the BULLETIN, a bi- monthly publication of the CPF; texts of articles included in the December BULLETIN-including, book reviews, articles on the "unjust war," American Catholic Bishops statement, letters to the Vietnamese, support for draft resisters, poems and articles concerning Catholic Relief Service in Vietnam.
- CCPF 1/16 Folder : CALC (1960's). Material includes: steering committee minutes, June 20, 196?.
- CCPF 1/17 Folder : Cambodia, Laos, Malasia, Siam, 1965, 1967-68. Material includes: xeroxed clippings concerning the war in these areas. [All printed articles and studies removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/18 Folder : CFSC (Canadian Friends Service Committee) 1967-68. Material includes: correspondence and reports concerning CFSC activities especially Canadian medical aid to Vietnam; lists of medical supplies needed and sent. (Several letters in French). Principle correspondents include Frank S. Dingman.
- CCPF 1/19 Folder : Caritas, CRS/CPF Statements & News Releases, 1967. Material includes: response to Charles Hughes' letter; letters to Caritas Internationalis Rome, Italy; CRS letter to Commonweal; Religious News Service releases; statement against CRS; drafts of statements on "Politics & Peace." Principle correspondents include: Thomas Quigley, Fabien Flynn, Charles Hughes, James O'Gara, Thomas Merton, Eileen Eagan, Carlo Bayer. [All reprints and printed material removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 1/20 Folder : Caritas, CRS/CPF Statements, Correspondence, 1967. Material includes: draft of a statement by Dan Berrigan; address labels; correspondence. Principle correspondents include: James Forrest, Agostino Bono, Carlo Bayer, Adolph Schalk, Michael Novak. [Photographs and printed material removed to photo and printed material collections.]
CCPF 2 Group : Box 2: Subject Files: Catholic Action-Civil Rights
- CCPF 2/01 Folder : Material includes: several drafts of a paper on "The Tradedy of East Bengal"; mailings regarding Bengal sent out from Ken Curtin (CPF).
- CCPF 2/02 Folder : Catholic Association for International Peace (CAIP), 1966. Material includes: mailing and tentative program for the 39th Annual Conference, 1966; analysis of commentaries on the National Inter-Religious Conference on Peace, 1966; statement of the World Order Committee of the CAIP on the war in Vietnam; correspondence concerning the 1966 conference and CAIP activities. Principle correspondents include: George Higgins, James Forest, Charles O'Donnell.
- CCPF 2/03 Folder : Catholic Education, 1965. Material includes: two papers by James Forest-"Defense of a Catholic School System," "War, Hunger, Nationalism- Basic Concerns of the Teacher says Nun." [COMMONWEAL article, "Reforming the Seminaries," Joseph O'Donoghue, Nov. 6, 1964 removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 2/04 Folder : Catholic Inter-American Cooperation Program (CICOP), 1971-72. Material includes: Correspondence concerning the CICOP conference, 1971-72. Principle correspondents include: Thomas Quigley, Thomas Cornell.
- CCPF 2/05 Folder : Catholic Relief Service (CRS), 1967-68. Material includes: correspondence, news releases and newspaper reprints concerning the CRS controversy of aid to North Vietnam; CPF response to CRS executive director, Edward E. Swanstrom; CRS aid to the "Popular Forces" also known as the Self Defense Corps. Principle correspondents include: James Forest, Thomas Cornell, Michael Novak, James Norris, Charles Hughes, Paul Velde, Caritas Internationalis. ["CRS of the National Catholic Welfare Conference" INFORMATION BULLETIN, 1966; "When, Lord, Were You in North Vietnam?" reprint from Ocr. 7 AVE MARIA, removed to printed. Material collection.]
- CCPF 2/06 Folder : Catholic Relief Service (CRS) Ad & Article, 1967. Material includes: "Shall We Play Politics or Work for Peace?"- an advertisement for the CPF with a list of names used in conjunction with the ad.
- CCPF 2/07 Folder : Catholicism, 1964-65. Material includes: news clippings concerning Catholicism. [All printed articles removed to printed material collection.]
- CCPF 2/08 Folder : Catholics in South Vietnam, 1970-71. Material includes: "Statement Against a Corrupt, Unjust, and Degenerate Society," June 1974 with note from Thomas Gumbleton; list of members of the Catholic Commission of Inquiry; International Assembly of Christians in Solidarity with Vietnamese, Laotion, and Cambodian peoples, activities and correspondence; reports of North Vietnam and the church; "Socialism in Vietnam: 25 Years of Building," Troung Ba Can; "Vietnamization of Saigon Politics," Cynthia Fredrick; appeals and letters from the suffering South Vietnamese to the Catholic Church; "Vietnamese Catholics and Peace" by Vietnamese Christians in the Service of the People, 1970. [COMMONWEAL reprints "Our Catholic 'Enemies' Encountering the Church of North Vietnam," Richard Griffen, "Catholic Bloodbath in Vietnam," D. Gareth Porter removed to printed. Material collection.]
- CCPF 2/09 Folder : CCCO [Central Committee for Conscientiuos Objectors], 1967- 68. Material includes: minutes of CCCO executive committee meeting Jan. 1967-June 1968; one letter from CCCO to CPF concerning a request for information.