LSA Canon Law Society of America Records Guide University of Notre Dame Archives University of Notre Dame Archives 2011
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
Description based on paper finding aids and inhouse database. English LSA Canon Law Society of America Records 1953-[ongoing] Canon Law Society of America 51 linear feet University of Notre Dame Archives
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
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Canon Law Society of America

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Preferred Citation

Canon Law Society of America Records (LSA), University of Notre Dame Archives (UNDA), Notre Dame, IN 46556

Scope and Content

Minutes and other records of the Board of Governors; files kept by the Executive Coordinators, Presidents, Treasurers, and other officers; committee files; publications files; newsletters, bulletins, mailings, press releases, subject files, correspondence, and audio and video tapes; with material on the revision of the Code of Canon Law after the Second Vatical Council, marriage and divorce, annual conventions, regional conferences, workshops, interaction with other organizations including Canon Law societies in other countries, and the birth control controversy.

Background

Founded in 1939 as an association of Roman Catholic canon lawyers, many of them alumni, students, and faculty of the Catholic University of America's School of Canon Law, the Canon Law Society of America for first several years met annually for one-day meetings in New York City, in conjunction with the alumni reunion of the Catholic University of America, to hear papers concerning Canon Law and to support the publication of The Jurist, a journal associated with the Catholic University of America. Beginning in 1942 CLSA also held regional meetings. In the late 1940s meetings began to last for more than one day and CLSA decided not to associate its annual meeting with the Catholic University alumni reunions.

Canon Law Society of America Catholic Church. Codex Juris Canonici (1983). Canon law Marriage -- Catholic Church -- Societies, etc. Birth control Related Material National Federation of Priests' Councils Records Paul M. Boyle Papers CLSA Canon Law Society of America: Manuscripts CLSA 1-31 Committees 1961-1989 CLSA 3-04 Symposia and Seminars CLSA 3/24-27 Permanent Seminar CLSA 21-30 Scholarship Fund CLSA 4-31 Board of Governors CLSA 8-32 Revision of the Code of Canon Law 1965-1985 CLSA 26-32 Promulgation of New Code of Canon Law 1983-1989 CLSA 11-12 Marriage and Divorce 1965-1987 CLSA 13-14 Officers' Files CLSA 15-25 Annual Conventions 1965-1990 CLSA 16-31 Regional Conferences 1963-1983 CLSA 16-29 Workshops 1964-1989 CLSA 16-17 Rev Kevin D O'Rourke, OP - Papers, Correspondence 1964-1981 CLSA 22-29 Pre- Convention Workshops 1986-1989 CLSA 22/30-35 Sanctions in the Church Workshop 1987-1988 CLSA 28/15-28 Revised Code and Diocesan Administration Workshop 1982 CLSA 29 Tribunal Workshop CLSA 22-29 Jurisprudence Workshop 1984-1987 CLSA 22-29 Sacramental Law Workshop 1985-1987 CLSA 21-29 Religious Governance Workshops 1985-1989 CLSA 17-26 Other Workshops or Workshops in General 1966-1989 CLSA 17-18 Newsletters, Bulletins, Mailings, Press Releases 1965-1985 CLSA 19-28 Correspondence 1980-1987 CLSA 19-30 Other Canon Law Societies and Other Organizations 1973-1992 CLSA 19-30 Other Canon Law Societies 1973-1992 CLSA 20-28 Interaction with Other Catholic Organizations 1972-1984 CLSA 20-28 National Conference of Catholic Bishops / USCC 1975-1983 CLSA 20-24 Other Organizations CLSA 20-30 Information Exchange 1985-1992 CLSA 21-22 Membership, Mailings, Sales of Publications 1974-1987 CLSA 31-32 Birth Control Controversy 1964-1969 CLSA 18-32 General File CLSA 33-34 Restricted CLSA 44-48 Publications Files CLSA 46 Officers' Correspondence 1992-1997 CLSA 46/01 Presidential Correspondence 1992-1997 CLSA 46/02 John Faris Correspondence CLSA 46/03 Vice Presidential Correspondence 1993-1997 CLSA 49-50 CLSA Board of Governors Meetings 1990-1996 CLSA 57 CLSA Publications CLSA 59 CLD Files from Rev. J. O'Connor, SJ CLSA 62/ Executive Coordinator (A. Espelage) CLSA 66/ VP / Presidential Committee CLSA 66-67/ OEC Committee CLSA 68-70/ Meetings, Conventions CLSA 71-72/ New Commentary and Translation of Code of Canon Law CLSA 75/ Rev. James H. Provost papers as Executive Coordinator for CLSA ALSA Canon Law Society of America: Audio-Visual Material GLSA Canon Law Society of America: Graphics MLSA Canon Law Society of America: Microfilm PLSA Canon Law Society of America: Printed Material Newsletters (Roman Replies ); annual convention proceedings; Sacramental Law Workshop booklets; Questions in Tribunal Practice booklets; Official Ministry in a New Age, edited by James H. Provost, Permanent Seminar Studies No. 3 (CLSA 1981); Lawrence G. Wrenn books on Decisions and Annulments; and The Ministry of Governance, edited by James K. Mallett.