Coffey, et al., 1979-1985

Photocopied items: articles from Australasian Catholic Record by and referring to Coffey; letter from four priests to the Archbishop Luigi Barbarito, Apostolic Pro-Nuncio in Australia, 27 Jan. 1981, complaining of the published writings of the Rev. David Coffey, D.D., President and Professor of dogmatic theology at the Catholic Institute of Sydney, Manly, and reply, with letter from Barbarito to Jim, giving text of Barbarito’s communication concerning Coffey; letters from the Rev. B.J.H. Tierney to Cardinal Gagnon, Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican City, 17 Feb. 1985, concerning Fr. Purcell’s suitability as a bishop, and 5 and 13 June 1985 re a plan to divide the Sydney Archdiocese as a means to the restoration of Catholic orthodoxy; Bishop Matinez, Newman Centre, Merrylands, N.S.W., “Some Points made by the Holy See in letters to Fr. B.J.H. Tierney, 1972-1985”; copies of letters to Tierney from the Vatican, 1979, 1982. Document “Introduction to the Profiles of Some Bishops, Priests and Institutions of the Archdiocese of Sydney”, critical of the bishops of the Australian Episcopal Conference [The pages of this last item are in plastic sleeves fixed to the folder].