Notre Dame Archives
CFPC National Federation of Priests' Councils: Manuscripts
CFPC 3 Group : Box 3: Conventions, 1974-1977
- CFPC 3/54 Folder : 1977 Convention: "Thank You Letters"
Material includes: thank you letters from James Ratigan to participants and workers at the Convention.
CFPC 4-5 Group : Box 4-5: Delegate Credentials and Mailings, 1968-1972
Materials in Boxes 4 and 5 include: delegate material and credentials by diocese; forms for affiliation with NFPC; registration forms for House of Delegates meetings; local diocesan constitutions. Material arranged alphabetically by diocese. [All bound constitutions and printed materials removed to printed material collection.]
CFPC 6-7 Group : Box 6-7: Bound Minutes, 1968-1971
Black Binders of 1968-1976 Convention Minutes.
CFPC 8 Group : Box 8: Executive Board Material, 1968-1973
- CFPC 8/01 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board 1968-1969 (1)
Material includes: primarily memos to board members from President Patrick O'Malley concerning board rulings, issues, and the function of the board itself.
- CFPC 8/02 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board 1968-1969 (2)
Material includes: primarily memos to board members from President Patrick O'malley concerning board rulings, issues, and the function of the board itself.
- CFPC 8/03 Folder : Executive Board Correspondence 1969
Correspondence includes: letters to and from Patrick O'Malley regarding the Washington Priests, Vietnam, reports of progress in local dioceses.
- CFPC 8/04 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board 1970
Material includes: memos and material concerning convention plans and board member reactions; evaluation of NFPC; mailings of other meetings (local councils etc.); agenda of December board meeting.
- CFPC 8/05 Folder : Executive Board Meeting December 14-16, 1970 - Chicago
Material includes: agenda; Communication Committee quarterly report; memos concerning feasibility study for National Pastoral Council of USCC Advisory Board; NFPC participation in USCC Advisory Board; celibacy study returns; proposed budget; committee reports.
- CFPC 8/06 Folder : Executive Board Meeting June 21-23, 1971
Material includes: agenda; meeting minutes; and memoranda from Frank Bonnike.
- CFPC 8/07 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board 1971
Material and mailings deal with and include: executive board newsletter; promotion of PRIEST USA; NFPC delegate meeting; minutes of NFPC officers and bishops; UFWOC [United Farm Workers of California] strike fund; Washington Priest's case.
- CFPC 8/08 Folder : Executive Board Meeting August 23-25, 1971 - Des Plaines, IL
Material includes: proposed agenda; list of discussion topics; provincial representatives quarterly reports; committee reports; meeting minutes; reports on past NCCB meetings.
- CFPC 8/09 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, 1971 - Scottsdale,
Arizona Material includes: proposed agenda; financial statement; invitations to the meeting; list of those attending; nominees for president of NFPC; meeting minutes.
- CFPC 8/10 Folder : Executive Board Correspondence 1972 (1)
Correspondence and material includes: minutes of meetings; questionnaires; evaluations; news releases and correspondence primarily with Frank Bonnike.
- CFPC 8/11 Folder : Executive Board Correspondence 1972 (2)
Correspondence and material includes: minutes of meetings; questionnaires; evaluations; news releases and correspondence primarily with Frank Bonnike.
- CFPC 8/12 Folder : Executive Board Meeting March 1972 - Denver, Colorado
Material includes: minutes and highlights of the executive board post convention meeting.
- CFPC 8/13 Folder : Executive Board Meeting June 19-22, 1972-Sacred Heart
Seminary Detroit, Michigan Material includes: proposed agenda; financial statement; working outlines for meeting; indoctrination of new board members with constitutional changes; correspondence for SEARCH AND SHARE project; minutes of the Detroit meeting.
- CFPC 8/14 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Aug. 22-25, 1972 - Cenacle Retreat
House, Chicago, Illinois Material includes: agenda; financial statements; committee reports; meeting minutes; and studies by James Stewart, St. Olaf College.
- CFPC 8/15 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Nov. 26-30, 1972 - Franciscan
Retreat Center, Tampa, Florida Correspondence and material includes: agenda; public relations quarterly report; financial statement; parish evaluation project; by laws of NFPC; NFPC constitution; provincial and local annual reports; rough draft by James Stewart of evaluation/survey; meeting minutes.
- CFPC 8/16 Folder : Executive Board Meeting June 19-21, 1973- Cenacle Retreat
House, Chicago and March Meeting in Detroit, Michigan Correspondence and material includes: minutes of March 1973 executive board meeting; agenda for June meeting; correspondence regarding board meeting reports; daily schedule; NFPC World Without War Program highlights; public relations quarterly report; communication program; finance committee annual report; proposed resolutions; and June meeting minutes.
- CFPC 8/17 Folder : Executive Board Meeting June 19-21, 1973- Cenacle in
Chigago, Illinois Material includes: minutes; Executive Board Directory; daily schedule; staff reports and resolutions; financial information; ACTION and IMPACT newsletters; final draft of a study on priestly ministry; report of subcommittee on priestly ministry and celibacy; issue reports.
- CFPC 8/18 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Aug. 20-23, 1973- Cenacle in
Warrenville, IL Correspondence and material includes: minutes; agenda; committee reports; presidential report; daily schedule; correspondence concerning issues for discussion; resolutions; historical review of the election of the president of NFPC; and possible option concerning priestly ministry.
- CFPC 8/19 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Aug. 20-23, 1973- Cenacle in
Warrenville, IL Material includes: pre-meeting information; list of committees; biographical information of representatives; daily schedule; agenda; staff reports; financial information; proposed resolutions and items for discussion; committee reports.
- CFPC 8/20 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Nov. 25-30, 1973- Sacred Heart
College, Belmont, NC Material includes: agenda; minutes; committee reports; correspondence concerning board meetings; financial material; resolutions; and summary report.
- CFPC 8/21 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Nov. 27-30, 1973- Sacred Heart
College Material includes: staff reports; committee reports; agendas; daily schedule; support material including financial statements; and miscellaneous notes.
- CFPC 8/22 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board, 1973
Material includes: memoranda and mailings to executive board members, provincial representatives, and council presidents concerning NFPC activities primarily from Reid Mayo.
CFPC 9 Group : Box 9: Executive Board Material, 1974-1977
- CFPC 9/01 Folder : Executive Board Meeting Pre and Post Convention, 1974
Material includes: minutes of March 21 meeting; minutes of March 17 meeting; and resolutions for executive board March 17, 1974.
- CFPC 9/02 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, June 16-19- Chicago Illinois [1974]
Material includes: minutes; daily schedules; agenda; correspondence regarding action taken on 1974 House of Delegates resolutions; proposed resolution on capital punishment; committee goal setting memoranda; staff reports including financial statements; committee reports.
- CFPC 9/03 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Aug. 19-23, 1974- St. Joseph
Priory, Washington, DC Material includes: minutes; daily schedule; staff reports; committee reports; convention plans; invitations to quarterly meeting; correspondence including a letter to Geral Ford.
- CFPC 9/04 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Dec. 1-6, 1974- St. Leo Abbey, FL
Material includes: minutes; agenda; retreat daily schedule; proposed amendments to NFPC bylaws; staff reports; financial information; committee reports; convention plans; correspondence regarding pre and post convention meetings.
- CFPC 9/05 Folder : Mailings to Executive Board, 1974
Material includes: memoranda; press releases; statements by Stephan Adrian and Reid Mayo.
- CFPC 9/06 Folder : Executive Board Meetings: Pre-Convention, Mar. 9, 1975;
Post Convention, Mar. 13, 1975 Material includes: meeting minutes.
- CFPC 9/07 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, June 1-4, 1975- Chicago, IL
Material includes: post convention information to members of the board; minutes; agneda; NFPC Executive Board Directory, June 1975; biographical information of executive board members; financial information; convention evaluations.
- CFPC 9/08 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Aug. 24-27, 1975- Chicago, IL
Material includes: summary of meeting; post meeting follow- up; meeting minutes; agenda; daily schedule; memos and correspondence primarily from Reid Mayo.
- CFPC 9/09 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Dec. 2-5, Chicago, IL
Material includes: NFPC Executive Board Directory, Nov. 1975; retreat information; daily schedules and agenda; committee goals; president's report; address delivered by Reid Mayo; handouts and memos from national office; "Service of Prayer" booklet.
- CFPC 9/10 Folder : Executive Board Meetings, March 21 and March 25, 1976
Material includes: minutes.
- CFPC 9/11 Folder : Executive Board Meetings, June 28- July 1, 1976
Material includes: minutes; financial statement; information on St. Francis Retreat; meeting summary; member packets for meeting; memoranda from national office; provincial representative biographical information; Research and Development committee survey on local council effectiveness.
- CFPC 9/12 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Aug. 31- Sept. 3, 1976
Material includes: minutes; agenda; quarterly reports; presidential report; study guide for a priest serving in a ministerial church; correspondence primarily with council presidents and James Ratigan.
- CFPC 9/13 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Nov. 28- Dec. 3, 1976
Material includes: minutes; agenda; tentative daily schedules; final daily schedule; thank you letters to participants; 1977 House of Delegates agenda; presidential report to the board; budget statistics.
- CFPC 9/14 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Mar. 25, 1977, Louisville, KY
Material includes: post convention executive board meeting minutes.
- CFPC 9/15 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, May 1-4, 1977
Material includes: agenda; minutes; report to local councils; list of committee chairpersons handling resolutions from Detroit "Call to Action"; executive committee "Action Steps"; president's report; quarterly reports; council disaffiliations; committee profiles; daily schedules.
- CFPC 9/16 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Sept. 12-15, 1977
Material includes: minutes; agenda; daily schedule; president's report; quarterly reports of committees; report to local councils. [1977 Labor Day statement borchure, ACP (Association of Chicago Priests) newsletter, "Full Employment" leaflet removed to printed material collection.]
- CFPC 9/17 Folder : Executive Board Meeting, Nov. 28- Dec. 1, 1977
Material includes: minutes; report to local councils, daily schedules; president's report; quarterly reports of committees; Nov. 1977 Executive Board Directory; correspondence concerning issues, principally with James Ratigan.
CFPC 10 Group : Box 10: Financial Material, 1968-1977
- CFPC 10/01 Folder : Rough Copies of Financial Records, 1968-1970
Material includes: membership dues statement; NFPC income and expense sheets; disbursements and receipts.
- CFPC 10/02 Folder : 1968-1971 Budget Papers
Material includes: membership dues payments; income and expense sheets; yearly/monthly financial statements; proposed budget.
- CFPC 10/03 Folder : Statistical Information Sheets, 1971-1972
Material includes: statistical information sheets by council.
- CFPC 10/04 Folder : Statistical Information Sheets, 1973-1974
Material includes: statistical information sheets by council.
- CFPC 10/05 Folder : Statistical Information Sheets, 1975-1976
Material includes: statistical information sheets by council.
- CFPC 10/06 Folder : NFPC Leadership Conference, 1975-1976
Material includes: conference summary reports.
- CFPC 10/07 Folder : Financial Statements- Monthly, May 1968- Aug. 1976
Material includes: monthly financial statements.
- CFPC 10/08 Folder : Financial Statements, 1969-1973
Material includes: monthly financial statements with committee reports; and NFPC council assessment status reports, Nov. 1, 1973.
- CFPC 10/09 Folder : Monthly Statements, 1972-1977
Material includes: PRIESTS/USA financial report, 1972-1977; provincial assessments due; proposed budgets, 1972-1977; master copies of annual financial statments, 1972-1975.
- CFPC 10/10 Folder : Audit Reports, June 30, 1973, 1975, 1976
Material includes: statement of financial condition; budgets compared with actual expenses; assets; liabilities; income; expenditures.
- CFPC 10/11 Folder : Outstanding Checks by Month
Material includes: lists of names and amount on each check, 1973-1976.
- CFPC 10/12 Folder : Rural Ministry Closed Accounts
Material includes: expense sheets of account titles by geographical area.
- CFPC 10/13 Folder : Disaffiliated Councils- Archives
Material includes: lists of payments of dioceses 1968; disaffiliations in alphabetical order.
- CFPC 10/14 Folder : United States Postal Service Charges, 1971-1975
Material includes: postage computations for PRIESTS USA.
- CFPC 10/15 Folder : Orders for Works Distributed by NFPC.
Material includes: requests to NFPC and billings.
- CFPC 10/16 Folder : Catholic Church Personnel Group Benefit Trust, [1973]
Correspondence and material includes: group tax deferred annuity program forms; letters to and from David L. Corcoran, Special agent; CORED membership mailing list, 1972-1973.
- CFPC 10/17 Folder : Order Forms for "The Christian in War and Peace Series"
Material includes: orders for copies of "The Christian in War and Peace Series" and billings.
- CFPC 10/18 Folder : Miscellaneous Orders Filled
Material includes: order forms and billing for copies of NFPC publications.
- CFPC 10/19 Folder : NFPC Appalacian Conference- Funds Held in Trust
Material includes: list of funds, income and expenses; correspondence concerning the Sidney Hillman Foundation.
- CFPC 10/20 Folder : Foundation Account (Funds Held in Trust)
Material includes: World Without War (WWW) program expenses; correspondence concerning funding of WWW. Correspondents include: David L. Corcoran, Mrs. Sam Starr (Nancy), Reid Mayo, Robert Pickus, Len Hoffman.
- CFPC 10/21 Folder : SCICM Account (Closed) [Steering Committee of an Interfaith
Coalition for Ministry] Material includes: financial statement; Cabrini contract center charges; correspondence primarily with Enablement, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts.
- CFPC 10/22 Folder : Priest Income Tax
Material includes: letters from T.J. Hanrahan to NFPC concerning taxes and the Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America. [Printed brochure on tax return information removed to printed material collection.]
- CFPC 10/23 Folder : Diocesan Property Plan
Correspondence and material includes: requests for information on insurance plans; progress report of Feasibility and Diocesan Property Insurance Policy; an article for Catholic institutional management; cost schedules.
- CFPC 10/24 Folder : NFPC Fund Raising [1970-1972]
Material includes: correspondence concerning donations, foundation support and fund raising activities. Principle correspondent, Frank Bonnike.
CFPC 11 Group : Box 11: Financial Material, Bills Paid
- CFPC 11/01 Folder : Bills Paid, 1973
Material includes: NFPC Executive Board meeting expenses.
- CFPC 11/02 Folder : Convention Bills, 1973 (Paid)
Material includes: exibitors bills; house of delegates convention expense sheet; convention financial deposit; hotel and banquet expenses.
- CFPC 11/03 Folder : Bills Paid, Jan.- Dec., 1974
- CFPC 11/04 Folder : Bills, 1974
Material includes: bills and expenses with some explanatory correspondence.
- CFPC 11/05 Folder : Convention Bills, 1974
Material includes: lists of costs; receipts; checks; convention expense sheets.
- CFPC 11/06 Folder : Bills Paid, 1975
Material includes: executive board meeting expense forms; bills; and receipts.
- CFPC 11/07 Folder : Bills Paid, 1975
Material includes: expense forms; bills; receipts.
- CFPC 11/08 Folder : Bills Paid, 1975 Convention
Material includes: registration forms; hotel bill receipts; expense forms.
- CFPC 11/09 Folder : Bills Paid, 1976 Houston Convention
Material includes: expense forms; list of budget; expenses; receipts; council assessments.
- CFPC 11/10 Folder : Bills Paid, 1976, Jan. - May
Material includes: bills and receipts.
- CFPC 11/11 Folder : Bills Paid, 1976
- CFPC 11/12 Folder : Bills Paid, 1977, Jan. - June
- CFPC 11/13 Folder : Bills Paid, July-Dec. 1977
Material includes: expense sheets and bills.
- CFPC 11/14 Folder : Bills Paid, 1977 Louisville, KY Convention
Material includes: receipts and expense sheets.
- CFPC 11/15 Folder : Material and Bills Paid for Convention, 1977-1978
Material includes: bills and invoices.
- CFPC 11/16 Folder : Olympic Hotel Bills, 1978 Convention- Seattle
Material includes: expense sheets.
CFPC 12 Group : Box 12: Committees
- CFPC 12/01 Folder : Communication- Public Relations
Correspondence and material includes: report to NFPC on the new "Priests' Forum"; news releases on "Priests' Forum"; correspondence concerning the new publication and public relations primarily with Albert Carriere, Inc. [Pamphlets removed to printed material collection.]
- CFPC 12/02 Folder : Communications Committee Correspondence, 1973
Correspondence and material includes: reports from board meetings; job descriptions for director of communications; list of publications available. Principle correspondents: Francis Brown, Mark Brummel.
- CFPC 12/03 Folder : Mailings to Committee Chairman
Material includes: questionnaires concerning the communications evaluations.
- CFPC 12/04 Folder : Committees: Communication and Justice and Peace
Material includes: proposals for a one hour TV special; purpose of Justice and Peace committee; councils listed resonding to Justice and Peace questionnaire; intern report; Justice and Peace committee report; Philip Berrigan accused of conspiracy; first draft of packet on World Hunger.
- CFPC 12/05 Folder : Constitution Committee
Material includes: 1972 NFPC Constitution and 1973 amendments.
- CFPC 12/06 Folder : Credentials Committee
Material includes: recommendations from convention concerning qualifications for councils; credential committee report.
- CFPC 12/07 Folder : Finance Committee
Material includes: rationale for 1971-1972 budget; statistical data requests; Fact Sheet 1971. ["Foundation Research Associates"; the "Catholic News" Thurs. Apr. 6, 1972 (Report of Service, Archdiocese of New York) removed to printed material collection.]
- CFPC 12/08 Folder : Finance Committee Correspondence
Material includes: budget dues and fees; expense sheets for board members; initiation fee.
- CFPC 12/09 Folder : Human Resources and Development Correspondence - Chairman
Correspondence and material includes: correspondence regarding a social action committee and Social Action activities in Councils. Principle correspondents: Frank Bonnike; Bob Kennedy; Patrick O'Malley; Charles Mulhalland.
- CFPC 12/10 Folder : Justice and Peace: Education
Material includes: CARA survey on urban problems, 1969; source book for programs of social concern (Lafayette, IN), 1970.
- CFPC 12/11 Folder : Justice and Peace - Church Management and Organizational
Development Material includes: position paper from committee on structures, 1969.
- CFPC 12/12 Folder : Justice and Peace Committee Questionnaires
Material includes: responses to questionnaires; report and summary of results; correspondence concerning WWW program, and commitment for Hunger. [Printed material removed to printed material collection.]
- CFPC 12/13 Folder : Justice and Peace Education ADULTS (Programs, Texts) 1968-1969
Material includes: "Study Guide for Peace," Memphis TN; Social Action Conference annual convention, 1961-1962; documentary service- "Towards a Declaration of Christian Freedoms"; paper on White Racism Among People especially Catholics of the Evansville Diocese; United Front Resolution by Charles Koen; National Task Force on urban problems- Geno Baroni; strategy for shaping safer cities; report on Division for Urban Life; comparative approach to the meaning of gay liberation; "New Setting of Abortion Decisions." [Nixon Pan-Welfare Reform or Not?," "Improving the Public Welfare System"; "The Welfare Quagmire"; "The Family of Nations" removed to printed material collection.]