Religious education of children

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials pertaining to 77 vacation schools in Colorado where Benedictine Sisters of Chicago taught from the 1920s through the 1980s. While some files are limited to a single slip of paper detailing a town and parish, especially in locations with a small classes, others are filled with news clippings, archival photographs, historical pamphlets, and more. Also included is some information about a few summer schools of religion in Illinois. While there are no official...

Scope and Contents This collection conatins 1 hanging file of personal data and biographical information, and 1 box of personal papers. The box of personal papers begins with materials from St. Scholastica High School Sodality and CISCORA in 1935 and goes through letters as late as 1997. It includes correspondence, awards, and reflections. The family material is related to her brother, Brother J. Philip Lynch, FSC (1915-1975). Sr. Catherine's work at the Archdiocese of Chicago School Study Commission in the...

Scope and Contents A Course in Religion and Jesu-Maria Course in Religion are the course books written by Sister Dolores Schorsch, OSB and her brother, Alexander P. Schorsch, CM. The work these individuals formulated came out to be great tools in teaching Catholicism. The course books are written for both teachers and students. This is a series of eight books. Between A Course in Religion (1934-1947) and Jesu-Maria Course in Religion (1954-1961) there are guidebooks and workbooks. The guidebooks were written...

Scope and Contents Sister Mary Ann Fleischmann, OSB's papers include biographical information, worship aids from milestones of her community life, and photographs of her with family and friends, particularly reunion photographs from St. Mary's Academy in Quincy, Illinois. Two photos show an ofrenda created in her honor in November 2000, shortly after her death. The reflection for her funeral was given by prioress Sister Jane Smith, OSB. There is a set of academic records from...