Catholic monks in Minnesota are helping to save a trove of Islamic treasures in Mali

Preserving manuscripts

Faith’s archivists

Catholic monks in Minnesota are helping to save a trove of Islamic treasures in Mali

Dec 19th 2015 | BAMAKO | From the print edition

THE secret evacuations began at night. Ancient books were packed in sm

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PRESERVING PARISH SACRAMENTAL HISTORY

THOMAS LESTER

Friday, 11 December 2015

By the end of this project, it is estimated that the archive will be in possession of approximately 4,000 volumes, including all of those from closed parishes, and those fr

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Church conceal incriminating documents

Church in controversial legal tactic to block lawsuits

19 December 2015 - 8:21PM

Chris Vedelago, Cameron Houston

The Catholic Church avoided paying up to $62 million in compensation to sexual abuse victims by creating the Melbourne Response.

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History goes digital

21 Nov 2015

Russell Powell

Read History goes digital

Some of the oldest records in Australia – parish registers from Sydney’s early colonial churches – are to be digitised under an agreement between the Diocese of Sydney and ancestry. com.

Ancestry will

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Diocese archivist describes efforts to salvage sacramental records damaged in Hurricane Katrina

Baton Rouge diocese archivist describes efforts to salvage sacramental records damaged in Hurricane Katrina

by olivia mcclure| omcclure@theadvocate.com

June 22, 2015

As people returned to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many fou

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Benedictine Fr. Cyprian Davis, top chronicler of black Catholic history, dies

Benedictine Fr. Cyprian Davis (CNS/St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology)

Catholic News Service | May. 20, 2015

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Th

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Jerusalem of the North comes to life online

More than million Jewish manuscripts from Lithuanian capital being restored and digitalized

One of thousands of Yiddish and Hebrew manuscripts being processed at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research at th

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Vatican receives £72,000 ransom demand for two letters by Michelangelo that were stolen from its archives nearly 20 years ago

Vatican says it was sent demand by man believed to be a former employee
Nun reported that the letters, one of them signed,

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Lithuania's lost Jewish archives come to life online

Thousands of Yiddish manuscripts that survived Holocaust and Stalin's anti-Jewish onslaught are finally seeing light of day after being holed up in basement of Catholic church for seven decades.

AF

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Pope Francis willing to open Pius XII archives

Posted on 28 November 2014.

Pope Francis
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VATICAN CITY (WJC) — Pope Francis has reiterated his position to open the secret Vatican archives covering the period of World War II to allow

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Award for Library and Archive

Our Library and Archive staff have been awarded the prestigious Archive Services Accreditation, the first Cathedral in the country to earn the accolade.

Accredited Archive Services ensure the long-term collection, prese

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Christ Church Conference - meeting of COFTSIG

In consultation with the other members of the committee for the COFTSIG, we have decided to respond to the invitation of Geraldine Pickles of the School SIG to join their function for this year in Christchurch.

There is a major problem with obtaining

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Pope takes action on secret archives

Vatican gets pressure from France, Germany

Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – Pope Francis nixed a plan to open secret Vatican archive files relevant to the Holocaust following pressure from Germany and France, an inform

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Diocesan archives coming together

Fifteenth Century prayer books, ceremonial vestments and a complete computer database of Baptisms in the Diocese dating back to 1840 are just some of the features of the Diocese’s history that is carefully being put

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Christian Community - Temple Society Australia (Victoria) seeking an archivist

We are an independent progressive Christian Community called Temple Society Australia. We have a long and rich history as we established Christian communities in Palestine from 1868 onwards. As we were Germans we were frequently interned and then ret

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Dusting off sacred objects

Written by Ruane Remy, The Catholic Register Sunday, 06 April 2014 12:00

Andrea D’Angelo, processing archivist with the Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, with some of the items available to parishe

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Vatican library will digitize its archives and put them online

Mar 21, 2014

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican library began a project on Thursday to digitize thousands of historical manuscripts, dating from the origins of the Church to the 2

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RCSIG AGM Canberra 2013

The AGM for the RCSIG will be held during the ASA Annual Conference in Canberra 2013. Tuesday 15 October has been set aside for the SIG meeting.

We will be holding our AGM and site visit at the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) Secretariat

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RCSIG Newsletter Blessed Collections No 20 april 2013 has been added to site

RCSIG Newsletter Blessed Collections No 20 april 2013 has been added to site for those interested thanks to Denis Connor and others efforts.

We are now working on the AGM and site visit in Canberra in October. Definite details will be available very

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RCSIG to proceed into the future

Thanks Michael for that comment and appreciation.

I have contacted Kylie Percival and reported our meeting suggestions of name change and new thrust for the future opening up to the idea of faith instead of just religion. She has given me some ideas

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Collections of Faith Traditions

Preserving manuscripts

Faith’s archivists

Friday, 11 December 2015

Chris Vedelago, Cameron Houston

Vatican gets pressure from France, Germany

Mar 21, 2014

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