of the ORDER OF ST. BENEDICT. The letters range from
matters personal to official. Marx arranged his
correspondence with fellow Benedictines by years;
separate files document various aspects of his
departure from Collegeville in 1981, when he was
granted an indefinite leave from the abbey in order to
continue his pro-life work. Additional files on
Marx's psychiatric evaluation, conducted prior to his
departure from Collegeville and the Human Life Center
in 1981, are currently closed to researchers.
Neither the church officials' correspondence nor the
O.S.B. correspondence should be viewed as complete.
As noted above, the subseries of general
correspondence retains numerous items that seem
logically better suited for the more specific
subseries. The subseries of CORRESPONDENCE WITH
PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS and with INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENTS are especially porous in this regard.
The former are arranged alphabetically by last name
and should not be taken as a list of Marx's most
important or frequent contacts. Several files appear
to be the beginnings of an effort to store all files
alphabetically and contain relatively few letters
while many important contacts have no personal file at
all (e.g., Emil J. Bodart (the pseudonym of Robert J.
Lombardi, a Philadelphia-area writer); Fr. William
Most of Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa; Joseph Scheidler
of the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League; and
various senators and congressmen). Thousands of items
in the general collection might more accurately be
refiled in all of these special subseries.
The correspondence ends with a box of MISCELLANEOUS
LETTERS AND CLIPPINGS, maintained apart from the
general collection and not yet clearly assimilable
with it.
- CMRX 1-2/ Subseries : Church Officials' Correspondence 1973-1993
- CMRX 1/01-07 Group : Archbishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1985-1992
- CMRX 77/01 Folder : Archbishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1990-1991
- CMRX 1/08 Folder : Archbishops - Apostolic Nuncios Pio Laghi and Agostino Cacciavillan 1981-1991
- CMRX 1/09 Folder : Archbishops - Raymond Hunthausen 1987-1988
- CMRX 1/10 Folder : Archbishops - Roger Mahony 1987-1991
- CMRX 1/11 Folder : Archbishops - William Keeler 1990?
- CMRX 1/12 Folder : Archbishops - Marcel Lefebvre 1988-1991
- CMRX 1/13-22 Group : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1982-1990
- CMRX 77/02 Folder : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1983-1987
- CMRX 1/23 Folder : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings c1990
- CMRX 2/01-04 Group : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1990-1993
- CMRX 77/03 Folder : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1990-1993
- CMRX 2/05 Folder : Bishops - Correspondence and Clippings 1982-1992
- CMRX 2/06 Folder : Bishops - List of Human Life International Donors nd
- CMRX 2/07 Folder : Bishops - List of Nathanson Tape Recipients 1983
- CMRX 2/08 Folder : Cardinals 1973-1989
- CMRX 77/04 Folder : Cardinals c1986
- CMRX 2/09 Folder : Nuns - Correspondence and Clippings 1987-1992
- CMRX 2/10 Folder : Vatican 1984-1991
- CMRX 2/11 Folder : Vatican - Pontificium Consilium Pro Familia 1988-1992
- CMRX 2/12 Folder : Vatican - Pontificium Opus a Propagatione Fidei 1979-1992
- CMRX 2-3/ Subseries : Order of Saint Benedict (OSB) Correspondence 1979-1993
- CMRX 2/13-15 Group : OSB - Abbot - Correspondence and Clippings 1979-1992
- CMRX 2/16 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1981-1992
- CMRX 2/17 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1952,1981-1982
- CMRX 2/18 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1983-1984
- CMRX 2/19 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1985
- CMRX 2/20 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1986
- CMRX 2/21-22 Group : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1987
- CMRX 2/23-24 Group : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1988
- CMRX 2/25-26 Group : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1989
- CMRX 3/01 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1990
- CMRX 3/02 Folder : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1991
- CMRX 3/03-05 Group : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1992
- CMRX 3/06-07 Group : OSB - Correspondence and Clippings 1993
- CMRX 3/08 Folder : OSB - Paul Marx - Psychiatric Evaluation 1981
- CMRX 3/09 Folder : OSB - Foundation of Human Life International 1981
- CMRX 3/10 Folder : OSB - Paul Marx - Leave of Absence 1980-1981
- CMRX 3/11 Folder : OSB - Paul Marx - Leave of Absence - Interview nd
- CMRX 3/12 Folder : OSB - Skudlarek Affair 1981
