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James E Byrne Papers (JEB), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556
Correspondence relating to the operation and mission of the True House community in South Bend and subject files including newsletters, minutes, community reports, and clippings of articles dealing with the Pentecostal movement.
Graduate of Notre Dame, 1968; co-founder and coordinator of the charismatic Christian community known as True House in South Bend, Indiana; director of the Communication Center of the International Conference of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal; and author of Threshold of God's Promise, 1971.
Index :
Byrne, James E., 1945- True House (Charismatic community). Pentecostalism -- Catholic Church. Glossolalia. Baptism in the Holy Spirit.
Correspondence, minutes, clippings, membership lists, 1970-1973, collected by James E. Byrne, concerning the activities of the True House Charismatic community of South Bend and the Catholic Pentecostal movement in general. Correspondents include other True House members, Kevin and Dorthy Ranaghan, Rev. Edward O'Connor CSC, Robert Colson, and Barbara Ford. Also included are correspondence with other Catholic Charismatic groups, including Fr. Francis McNutt, OP, of the Merton House St. Louis community, Br. Pancratius Boudreau, CSSR, of the Philadephia community, and members of the Ann Arbor community. Correspondents outside the movement include Bishops Joseph Crowley and Leo Pursley of Fort Wayne - South Bend, and Archbishop James M. Hayes of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Correspondence, notes, clippings, mailing lists, newsletters, reports, and minutes denoting the activities and concerns of James E. Byrne and True House; including the True House covenant, copies of the True House newsletter "The Outlook", and material dealing with True House summer programs and Antioch week-end retreats; also many clippings, essays, and bibliographical articles dealing with the Pentecostal movement and files dealing with the conflict between the Charismatic Christian Renewal and Notre Dame Professor J. Massingberd Ford.