Patrick and Patricia Crowley Papers

Source

Gift of Patrick and Patricia Crowley. Original accession: September 1969. Subsequent accessions through 1999.

Restricted by contract.

Preferred Citation

Patrick and Patricia Crowley Papers (RWL), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Questionnaires on the rhythm method of birth control, and on responsible parenthood and love in marriage, with responses from those who answered them; reports, notes taken at meetings, correspondence and background papers, 1964-1967; articles on birth control, dating from the 1960s through the 1980s; a copy of the book Turning Point by Robert McClory regarding the Commission; book reviews and Crowley correspondence concerning Turning Point; letters from members of the Commission in preparation for Turning Point; letters received concerning Turning Point, including some from bishops; publicity for Turning Point. Also correspondence and clippings dating from the 1970s through the 1990s having to do with the SPCBPC material in the Crowley Papers in the Notre Dame Archives and publications or documentaries issuing from research in this collection; two scrapbooks containing reactions to Bishop Bruskewitz's criticism of Patty Crowley; Patty Crowley's correspondence and clippings, 1999; photographs of the Commission; photographs from the book party at DePaul University for Turning Point by Robert McClory (7 May 1995); and printed material having to do with the concerns of the Commission.

Background

Patrick (Pat) and Patricia (Patty) Crowley were leaders of the Christian Family Movement. They were appointed by Pope Paul VI in December 1964 to serve on the Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control. They conducted surveys of CFM members on birth control as part of their service on the Commission.

Index :

 Crowley, Patrick F., 1911-1974  
 Crowley, Patricia Caron, 1913 
 Special Papal Commission on Birth and Population Control 
 Catholic Church. Papal Birth Control Commission. 
 Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Catholic Church
Birth control -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church 
Turning Point: the inside story of the Papal Birth Control Commission, and how Humanae Vitae changed the life of Patty Crowley and the future of the Church

• CRWL Patrick and Patricia Crowley: Manuscripts
  • CRWL 1/ Birth Control - Printed Material
  • CRWL 2/ Birth Control - Printed Material
  • CRWL 3/ Questionnaire Forms; Final Report on Rhythm Questionnaire
  • CRWL 4/ Notes Taken at Papal Birth Control Commission Meetings
  • CRWL 5/ Unpublished Reports of the Papal Birth Control Commission
  • CRWL 6/ Unpublished Reports and Correspondence of the Papal Birth Control Commission
  • CRWL 7/ Unpublished Reports Presented to the Papal Birth Control Commission
  • CRWL 8/ Unpublished Reports and Articles; Printed Articles; Correspondence
  • CRWL 9/ Blank Questionnaires; Unpublished Articles and Reports; Correspondence
  • CRWL 10/ Financial Papers; Correspondence; Blank Questionnaires
  • CRWL 11/ Reports and Correspondence; Reactions to Humanae Vitae
  • CRWL 12/ Papal Birth Control Commission Correspondence and Reports; Blank Questionnaires; Correspondence
  • 13-16/ Completed Questionnaires on Birth Control
    • CRWL 13/ Completed Rhythm Questionnaire; Completed Responsible Parenthood and Love in Marriage Questionnaire
    • CRWL 14/ Rhythm Questionnaires and Responses
    • CRWL 15/ Birth Control and Responsible Parenthood Responses
    • CRWL 16/ Correspondence (pre- and post- Encyclical); Rhythm and Responsible Parenthood Questionnaires
  • CRWL 17/ Two scrapbooks containing reactions to Bishop Bruskewitz's criticism of Patty Crowley; Clippings and Patty Crowley Correspondence, 1999.
  • CRWL 18/ Manuscript of The Pill by Bernard Asbell; Articles on Marriage, Birth Control, Humanae Vitae, the Vatican at the Cairo Meeting 1965-1994
  • CRWL 19/ Books 1979-1995
    • CRWL 19/ Simple Gifts: the Lives of Pat and Patty Crowley / by John Kotre 1979
    • CRWL 19/ The Politics of Sex and Religion / by Robert Blair Kaiser 1985
    • CRWL 19/ Why you Can Disagree and Remain a Faithful Catholic / by Philip S. Kaufman 1989
    • CRWL 19/ My Witness for the Church / by Bernard Haring 1992
    • CRWL 19/ Readings in Moral Theology No. 8: Dialogue about Catholic Sexual Teaching / edited by Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick, S.J. 1993
    • CRWL 19/ Paul VI: the First Modern Pope / by Peter Hebblethwaite 1993
    • CRWL 19/ The Pill / by Bernard Asbell 1995
    • CRWL 19/ Turning Point / by Robert McClory 1995

• ARWL Patrick and Patricia Crowley: Audio-Visual Material

  Two video tapes from the BBC Everyman television programme on Catholics and Sex; one cassette audio tape on Birth Control.

  • ARWL 26804-26805 VH : BBC Everyman Catholics and Sex [2 copies] no date
  • ARWL 26806 VH : People in the News Sacred Scandals: Predicaments of the Pious and Profane no date
  • ARWL 26807 VH : Patty Crowley re Birth Control and Visit to Rome, Oral History no date

• GRWL Patrick and Patricia Crowley: Photographs

  Snapshots of the Papal Birth Control Commission.