FORMATION, VOCATION, AND PASTORAL MINISTRIES

CONFERENCE FOR PASTORAL PLANNING AND COUNCIL DEVELOPMENT RECORDS,  1973- present, 10.0 feet (unprocessed).
Files of a service organization for pastors, lay leaders, and diocesan staff, formed to promote "consultative processes.

KISEMANITO CENTRE COLLECTION, 1981-1986, n.d., 4.6 feet (1.2 feet unprocessed).
Recordings of Native Catholic ministry formation classes and public celebrations in Canada that pertain to Native Christian beliefs, ceremonies, psychology, alcohol use prevention, and native legal status. Some presenters are from the United States.

NATIONAL BLACK SISTERS CONFERENCE RECORDS, 1968-present, 22.0 feet.
Records of a United States based organization of women religious, founded in 1968. Its purpose has been to provide ongoing communication, focusing on the education and support of African American women religious while confronting racism in society and the Catholic Church. The records include correspondence, minutes, unpublished papers, presentations, conference materials, and other materials documenting the programs and services provided by the National Black Sisters Conference (NBSC). Also included are records from its Development of Educational Services in the Growing Nation (DESIGN) program. Other groups who partnered with the NBSC are documented, including the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, National Office for Black Catholics, other religious organizations, Black political organizations and social justice groups. [Connect to Inventory]

NATIONAL CATHOLIC VOCATION COUNCIL RECORDS, ca. 1976-1986, 15.3 feet (unprocessed).
Records of a coordinating body for Catholic vocation organizations (succeeded by the National Coalition for Church Vocations).

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DIOCESAN VOCATION DIRECTORS RECORDS,1957-present, 6.0 feet (unprocessed).
Records of a service organization for diocesan vocation directors in the promotion of church vocations, especially the diocesan priesthood.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RELIGIOUS VOCATION DIRECTORS RECORDS, ca. 1964-1987, 14.7 feet (unprocessed).
Records of an organization of men religious in the vocation apostolate. It merged in 1988 with the National Sisters Vocation Conference to form the National Religious Vocation Conference.

NATIONAL INTERFAITH COALITION ON AGING RECORDS, 1971-present, 35.0 feet.
Correspondence, minutes, publications, reports, research papers, tape recordings, and related records documenting the programs and services of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging (NICA). Included are project files for its Survey on Programs for the Aging Under Religious Auspices and for Project GIST (Gerontology in Seminary Training), which sought to enhance the ability of the religious community to serve the needs of the aging by improving the knowledge and skills of seminary educators. Also documented is NICA's involvement with the White House Conference on Aging, which included sponsorship of the National Intra-Decade Conference on the Spiritual Well-Being of the Elderly (1977) and an official mini-conference of the 1981 WHCOA, the National Symposium on Spiritual and Ethical Value Systems Concerns, which NICA convened in 1980. NICA dissolved as a corporation and reorganized as a constituent unit of the National Council on the Aging, effective 1 January 1991. [Connect to Inventory]

NATIONAL RELIGIOUS VOCATION CONFERENCE RECORDS, 1988-present, 6.0 feet.
Records of an organization of vocation ministers for religious congregations, formed   by the merger of the National Sisters
Vocation Conference and the National Conference of Religious Vocation Directors.

NATIONAL SISTERS VOCATION CONFERENCE RECORDS, 1966-1987, 16.0 feet (10 feet unprocessed).
Records of an organization of women religious in the vocation apostolate. It merged in 1988 with the National Conference of Religious Vocation Directors to form the National Religious Vocation Conference.

SIOUX SPIRITUAL CENTER RECORDS (PLAINVIEW, SOUTH DAKOTA), 1972-, n.d. (3.6 feet unprocessed).
Photographs, minutes, printed materials, and video recordings pertaining to Brulé, Hunkpapa, Oglala, Sans Arc, and other Indian Catholics and their activities at the Sioux Spiritual Center, Plainview, South Dakota. Jesuits, under the auspices of the Diocese of Rapid City, administer the center. Included are interviews of Bishop Harold Dimmerling and several Indian deacons regarding their experiences in the deacon formation program and their expectations as permanent deacons.

SISTER FORMATION CONFERENCE/RELIGIOUS FORMATION CONFERENCE RECORDS, 1936-present, 
40.3 feet.
Records of an organization, founded in 1954 as the Sister Formation Conference (the name changed in 1976 when men formation personnel were added to its membership), which helped bring about a dramatic change in the status of women religious within the Catholic Church and within American society as a whole, including general correspondence and subject files, minutes of meetings
of the national leadership, records of conferences and workshops, and publications issued by the Conference. Personal papers of Ritamary Bradley and Annette Walters concerning their involvement in the Sister Formation movement are also included. The conflict in the early 1960s between the Sister Formation Conference officers and the leadership of the Conference of Major Superiors of Women over the restructuring of the SFC to more directly subordinate it to the CMSW is especially well documented
in correspondence, memoranda, and reports. Notable correspondents include Ritamary Bradley, Michael Novak, Mary
Emil Penet, David Riesman, and Annette Walters. [Connect to Inventory]

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