Box R4

Scope and Contents

Consists of reports and correspondence related to social organizations that the Province sponsored.

**Former location: 119.1_4**

Scope and Contents

Consists of reports and correspondence related to social organizations that the Province sponsored.

**Former location: 119.1_4**

Scope and Contents

Consists of reports and correspondence related to social organizations that the Province sponsored.

**Former location: 119.1_4**

Scope and Contents Letters written to Provincials James Sweeney and Vincent Keelan by priests serving at Ridge: Horace B. McKenna (Superior), Joseph Stoffel, John Dougherty, and Walter deLawder. Most letters concern the operations of Cardinal Gibbons Institute, parochial schools, fundraising efforts, impact of World War II, and resources for missionary work. Letter from Father Stoffel requesting that he no longer serve as confessor (July 24, 1943). Includes copies of following publications: St. Michael's...

Scope and Contents

Letters written to Provincials Vincent Keelan and David Nugent by priests serving at Ridge: Horace B. McKenna, John Rawe. Merle Baldwin (superior), and Walter deLawder. Most letters concern rural life, house expenses, and postwar housing. Includes annual reports from the Cardinal Gibbons Institute; St. Michael's Messenger.

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Letters written to Provincial Vincent Keelan by priests serving at Ridge: Horace B. McKenna (superior), Joseph Stossel, Merle Baldwin, Walter deLawder, Most letters concern postwar housing, parochial education, ministry among rural workers, and the jurisdiction between the Jesuits and Sisters of St. Joseph's in administering St. Michael's High School. Includes copies of pubications by National Catholic Rural Life Conference and St. Michael's Messenger.

Scope and Contents Letters to the Provincials David Nugent, William Maloney, and John Daley. Throughout, there is concern about jurisdictional boundaries between parishes and the tendency of Father McKenna to cross lines to serve Black parishioners. The letters dated before 1953 are primarily from Horace McKenna and Richard McSorley, concerning the segregation the parishes of Southern Maryland and their financial difficulties. Between September 1952 and the end of 1953, Father Nugent and William Maloney ...