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Correspondence with Floyd Anderson predominantly concerning his "Catholic News and Views" column and his efforts to create a new Catholic weekly for the Diocese of Superior (Wisconsin).

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Correspondence with Paul Blakely, SJ, associate editor of (and frequent contributor to) America from 1914 to 1943.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph Breen of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA), including a report from Gerard B. Donnelly, SJ, regarding Breen's hesitation to continue working for the organization (1936). Donnelly writes that Breen feels "the Legion [of Decency] has done absolutely nothing to help him" and "is merely sitting by waiting for Breen to make a mistake." Breen also "feels like he is carrying the whole load on his back. Nobody on the Legion side has ever...

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Correspondence with Patrick H. Callahan and copies of his circular "Callahan Correspondence," a mimeographed dialogue with business, church, and government leaders on current issues. Includes a response from Parsons when asked "What's the matter with the Jews?" (October 7, 1938) as well as letters concerning radio-priest Rev. Charles Coughlin (December 9, 12, 1938). Callahan was at one point the chairman of the Catholic Commission on Religious Prejudices.

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Correspondence with Myles Connolly, editor of Columbia Magazine, including discussion of his book Mr. Blue (1928) and collaborative work with Parsons and America.

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Correspondence with Myles Connolly, associate producer and screenwriter at RKO Studios, Inc. (and later other production companies).

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Correspondence with Myles Connolly, associate producer and screenwriter at RKO Studios, Inc. (and later other production companies), including discussion of his books The Bump on Brannigan's Head (1950) and Dan England and the Noonday Devil (1951).

Scope and Contents Includes book reviews written by Parsons on St. Ignatius (Hollis 1932); Democratic Despotism (Desvernine 1936); The New Testament: A New Translation from the Original Greek (Spencer, Callan, and McHugh 1938); In Place of Splendor (de la Mora, 1940); A Puritan in Babylon: The Story of Calvin Coolidge (White 1940); ...

Scope and Contents Includes the following talks and articles in typescript, published, or summary form:- Sermon for the "Unity of Christians in America" (Christian Unity Octave, Catholic University, January 22, 1946) - "Moral Aspects of the Population Problem" (National Catholic Conference on Family Life, Catholic University, February 6, 1946) - "The Ethics of Total War and Armament Control" (Catholic Association for International Peace conference, Hartford,...

Scope and Contents Includes the following talks and articles in typescript, published, or summary form:- "Labor-Management Relations Seen From Washington" (Social Order Forum, Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, New York, February 16, 1948) - "Psychiatry in Medical Practice" (doctors' sodality, February 29, 1948) - "Church and State" (Messenger of the Sacred Heart, March 1948) - On international affairs (1): "Italy, Will...

Scope and Contents Includes the following talks and articles in typescript, published, or summary form:- "Showdown in 1950" (The Sign, January 1950) - "The Middle-Income Housing Problem" (America, March 11, 1950) - "Un-American Slaves of the Vatican" two versions (The Sign, January 1951) - "Should We Seek to Strengthen the UN Now?" (January 17,...

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Correspondence with the Archbishop of Laodicea Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, who was also Apostolic Delegate to the US beginning in 1933.

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Correspondence with Joseph Breen while editor of the National Catholic Welfare Council Bulletin and publicity director for the 28th International Eucharistic Congress and the upcoming Chicago World's Fair. Breen's correspondence with Parsons originated when asked to prepare a few articles for America on the NCWC in 1923.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph Breen, while publicity director for the upcoming Chicago World's Fair and the Peabody Coal Company, including the introduction of Parsons to publisher Martin Quigley and early discussion of the Hays Code and its relationship to the Catholic press.In one letter Breen notes the "censorship fight" and how he wants Quigley to set up a board of examination to pass on scripts before they are accepted by producers (October 21, 1929). In another he...

Scope and Contents Correspondence with Joseph Breen of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). In one letter, Breen writes that nobody in Hollywood "cares a dam [sic] for the Code or any of its provisions. It is, in truth, a document honored more in the breach than in the observance. Censorship? Yes. Censorship and censorship eliminations cost money and tend to destroy the even tenor of the 'filmic flow' and all hands are against any such atrocity. But the Code means absolutely...