Catholic Church--Clergy

This collection includes mostly correspondence, sermons written by Msgr. O’Brien, and records related to the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society. According to an earlier inventory, the collection includes correspondence with numerous Bishops and Cardinals.

Papers of Msgr. Joseph Turk (1895-1951) including research notes, manuscript drafts, offprints, correspondence, newspaper clippings and postage stamps. The research papers and notes are concerned with the Cistercian Statuta and important figures in Cistercian history, such as Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St. Thierry and Stephen Harding. The newspaper clippings relate to mid-twentieth century politics in Yugoslavia.