Scope and Contents The John F. Long, S.J. Archive contains the papers of this leading Catholic expert on the Russian Orthodox Church, long-time staff member of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (since 1988, the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity), and participant in the Second Vatican Council. Long took part in numerous meetings with representatives of the Orthodox churches as well as the Ancient Oriental churches such as the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian, but with a specific mastery...

Collection-level Scope and Content Note The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, and a wide variety of supplemental items, which document Murray's career as author, editor, lecturer, professor, and theologian. Murray is perhaps best known for his books We Hold These Truths (1960) and The Problem of God (1964), as well as for his longstanding editorship of Theological Studies. Among Murray's correspondents are Rev. John Tracy Ellis, Henry and Clare Boothe Luce, and Samuel Cardinal Stritch, together with fellow...

Content Description The collection conists of the transcriptions and annotations made of the Journals of Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. by Karl and Nicole Schmitz-Moorman. Hand-written on French school copybooks, known as cahiers, the Journal that Father Teilhard began in August 1919 "to while away the boredom of quartering and to oblige [him] to think, to observe and to clarify" shows a gap between July 1925 and July 1944, and it ends three days before his death in April 1955. In March 1946, when he had...