Religious Life Collection
This Religious Life Collection is one of the strongest in North America. It includes:
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Over 3000 volumes of constitutions, histories, and formation plans from U.S. Religious Congregations (For instructions on how to check for your community’s documents read)
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Particularly strong Franciscana and Passionista Collections
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The John Lozano Collection (2000 volumes)
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Almost 200 Social Science Studies on Religious Life, most of them done by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA)*
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Over 50 Periodicals on Religious Life* List
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Over 100 dissertations examining some aspect of Religious Life*
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New repository for oral histories and other documentation from religious of Central and Eastern Europe who lived, often in prison, under communism
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Strong reference section on Religious Life
- Directory of Archives of Religious Institutes in the United States
*Made possible through a grant from Our Sunday Visitor
For more information on the Religious Life Collection contact:
Kenneth O’Malley,
CP 
Chair of CSRL’s
Library Advisory Committee