3 - Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

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Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan

1 p.; typescript

Letter from Fr. Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap., General Definitor, to Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan OFM Cap. regarding the impasse over the Irish Capuchins’ house in Baltimore. Fr. Sylvester explains that the superiors in Rome’ (the General Definitory) cannot officially ‘regularize’ or recognize the Baltimore foundation because of established territorial rules. He reminds Fr. Brendan of an official statement from 1928 stating, ‘We do not seek foundations in dioceses where there are houses of the Order’. Because the Pittsburgh Fathers already had a presence in the region (Cumberland and Washington), the Irish Province is technically encroaching.

ISAD(G) 2nd edition