Catholics -- Religious identity

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This collection contains 16 boxes of records including correspondence, financial records, prayers and homilies, records of meetings and membership, retreat records, scrapbooks and photographs of retreat participants. A large collection of clippings relating to the Catholic Church, and the diocese of Worcester has been discarded. Biographical information about Holy Cross College alumni has been filed in the alumni biographical files in the College Archives.

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This collection contain records from the Office of Mission including booklets, publications and event materials. Notably, the record group contains the "Return to Me: Lenten Reflections from Holy Cross" booklets, which are published each year before Lent. Materials date from 2003 to 2023 and are arranged in chronological order.

Scope and Contents This record group holds the records of the Office of the Chaplains and contains three series. The first series holds the administrative records created during the daily operations of the office. Dating from 1878 to 2019, these records include correspondence, publications, meeting minutes, reports and surveys. The Mass Records Series holds materials pertaining to services held on campus from 1967 to 1998. Finally, the third series contains records regarding the religious retreats held for...

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The collection contains the personal records of Rev. John J. McCoy and includes his personal writings and speeches along with administrative record books and reports concerning the various parishes at which he worked. Additionally, there are records for Catholic schools in western and central Massachusetts and scrapbooks with newspaper clipping documenting Rev. McCoy, his parishes and reports on Catholic groups around the United States. Materials in the collection date from 1877 to 1932.

Scope and Contents This scrapbook dates from 1887 to 1890 but is arranged in no particular chronological order and contains clippings from various papers or books. The main theme of the collection is one of Catholic and Irish identity. The pages contain pieces on famous Irishmen and Catholics in American History and include the obituaries of Cardinal Newman and the Irish-American poet John Boyle O’Reilly. In between, the young Father Foran created a mix of poetry, news, trivia facts, and history all relating...